The Study of Stresses in National and International Iranian Referees

The purpose of this research was to identify the stressful factors international and national referees. The subjects of the research include of (N=723) Iranian international and national referees which 605 of them participated in the study. The SOSS questionnaire was used to collect information that included 29 questions and statements and 15 faculty members identified its validity and its internal consistency was proved on 30 referees (r=0.93). Data were analyzed by Freidman Test and U-Man Whitney tests and analyze of variance in the significant level of P?0.05. The results indicated that among six stressors the fear of failure, personal and technical performance, and evaluation of performance were higher levels respectively. There were not significant differences between ranking of stress factors on international and national referees, but the group sports referees have high stress on interpersonal conflict and time condition problems, and the factor of evaluation of performance, personal problems and technical performance have the most effect to cause stress. Also low background has a high percentage of stress which related to personal & interpersonal conflict factor.