Abstract:

The purpose of this study is to determine the level of job satisfaction of soccer referees in terms of some key variables, such as gender, educational background, professional experience and etc. This study has been generated from the Turkish Football Referees of the central board of Referees in Turkish Football Federation. In particular, sample group of this study is mainly based on 8 Females and 82 Males, total 90 Referees in Ankara Region. In collection of data, firstly, the personal data form, which is prepared by an analyst, has been implemented, and then, in order to determine the level of job satisfaction, scale of “Minnesota Satisfaction Questionnaire”, which was enhanced in 1967 and transcribed in Turkish by Gokcora at 1985, has been applied to the referees. In analyzing and interpreting of this data, Kolmogorov-Smirnov test, Mann-Whitney U test, and Kruskal-Wallis test has been used as the variables in order to investigate the level of job satisfaction of the referees. At the end of the analysis, a positive correlation between the level of job satisfaction and gender, educational background, professional experience and the ranking variance could not have been found.

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