Examining the Relationship between Basketball Referees’ Physical Self-Esteem and Self-Efficacy

The aim of the study is to investigate the relationship between basketball referees' physical self-esteem and self-efficacy levels. The research design is defined as relational screening design. The universe of the study consists referees who actively served in Ankara in 2017-2018 and the whole universe was included in the sample. The participants of the study consisted of a total of 115 referees, 19% (n=22) females and 81% (n=93) males. In the study, a demographic information form, the Physical Esteem Scale (PES) which was adapted by Kara？am (2016) and the Referee Self-Efficacy Scale (REFS) which was developed by Kara？am and Pulur (2017) were used as data collection tools. Pearson Product Moment Correlation Coefficient was used to determine the relationship between variables, and t-test was used to compare the referees by gender A positive and significant relationship was found between referees' reference score, which is one of the subscales of PES, REFS total score and its subscales and referees' ages and refereeing experiences. All variables were found to be positively and significantly correlated with PES total score and its subscales and REFS total score and its subscales. As a result, it was concluded that ages and refereeing experience of the referees were significant variables on attribution, self-efficacy and the sub-factors of self-efficacy and that basketball referees' physical self-esteem and self-efficacy levels positively affected each other