Investigation of the power of type A personality in predicting the decision-making styles and emotional intelligence levels of football referees

Objective: to examine the predictive power of decision-making styles and emotional intelligence levels of type A personality in football referees. Method: a total of 205 volunteer referees, whose active refereeing lives continue, participated in the research. A questionnaire was used as a data collection tool in the research. The questionnaire used consists of four parts: 1) Decision-Making Styles Scale; 2) Type A Personality Scale; 3) Emotional Intelligence Scale; and 4) a personal information form prepared by the researcher. The obtained data were analyzed with the SPSS package program. In addition to descriptive statistics, Pearson Moments Correlation test and regression analysis were applied. Results and conclusion: no significant relationship was found between the type A personality scores of football referees and emotional intelligence. A moderately positive and significant relationship was found between the emotional intelligence scores of the referees and the rational and intuitive sub-dimensions of the decision-making styles scale. Football refereeing is an important profession that includes information, communication, quick decision making and managing the match smoothly by applying the rules. For this reason, it may be beneficial to gain characteristics such as enjoying life, being positive, hopeful and optimistic, which are among the elements of type A personality and emotional intelligence. In this way, healthy decision-making will be ensured by reducing the stress they experience. As a result, it was seen that the atypical personality of the football referees predicted the decision-making styles and emotional intelligence level and explained 13% of the total variance.