Emotional States Specific to Football Referee

Abstract

This scientific communication is performed based on a research performed as case studies during the period July - December 2012. Observing the conditions of case analysis, I shall present further on the methodological issues of research. In this work I followed as main objective the importance of affective side involved in arbitrage. Consequently, I have built a hypothetical relation which involves the correlation of the components of affectivity with the capacity of a football referee in the coordination of the game. The methods used in research were: the method of case analysis, the method of observation, documentation and conversation. The means used were: the observation protocol, the dialogue with the subjects and with the specialists in the field, the bibliographic study. Conditions of development: the research involves a number of 5 subjects with the data indicated in the table.Pursuant to the interpretations performed, we have reached the following conclusions presented in a synthetic manner. In the arbitration activity, the affective side of a football referee may cause the most diversified states; from small emotions to stress. In terms of emotionality, the football referee may be: hypo-emotive; normo-emotive; or hyper-emotive. The affective side of the referee may be destabilized by managers, presidents, delegates, or coaches. The relation referee – coach–player shall not be excluded from the affective side of a football game. Both the coach and the players try during the first minutes of the game to test the referee’s methods; which may be flexible, elastic, or rigid. All these issues may be brought to the knowledge of those involved in this phenomenon, both of referees to improve their capacity, and of trainers who are liable for perfecting the referees.