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AN ANALYTICAL STUDY OF THE CHARACTERISTICS OF INTRAMURAL BASKETBALL OFFICIALS AT THE UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA - LINCOLN
Abstract
Purpose. The purpose of this study was to identify factors that characterize top, middle and low rated men intramural basketball officials at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Procedures. Data were collected on 57 men employed as intramural basketball officials during the spring semester of 1978. Each subject was administered the following tools of measurement: (1) Cattell's 16PF Questionnaire, (2) the 1977-78 Basketball Rules Test, Part II, and (3) the Personal Data Form to determine their previous playing experiences and previous officiating experiences. The subjects were rated on their officiating performance by qualified raters using Bachman's Intramural Basketball Official's Rating Form (BIBORF). Officials were categorized into top (N = 19), middle (N = 19) or low (N = 19) classifications on the basis of the ratings received. Conclusions. The following conclusions were reached through the comparisons among the three categories of officials rated according to officiating performance: (1) There were particular personality factors, as determined by the administration of Cattell's 16PF Questionnaire and identified by Multiple Discriminant Stepwise Analysis, which distinguished among top, middle and low rated intramural basketball officials. These factors were: (a) Shrewdness (Factor N), (b) Tenseness, driven (Factor Q(,4)), (c) Surgency, enthusiastic (Factor F), (d) Conscientiousness, persistent (Factor G), (e) Assertiveness, aggressiveness, competitive (Factor E), (f) Protension, hard-to-fool (Factor L), (g) Tender-mindedness (Factor I), and (h) Venturesomeness, socially bold (Factor H). There was a significant (.05) positive correlation between subjects who scored high on these eight personality factors and their criterion score on the BIBORF. (2) There was a significant (.05) positive correlation between subjects who scored high on the 1977-78 Basketball Rules Test, Part II and the criterion score on the BIBORF. (3) There was a significant (.05) positive correlation between playing experience and the criterion score on the BIBORF. (4) There was a significant (.05) positive correlation between officiating experience and the criterion score on the BIBORF. When comparing the top and low rated groups, the following conclusions were reached: (1) There were particular personality factors which distinguished between the top and low rated intramural basketball officials. These factors were: (a) Venturesomeness, socially bold (Factor H), (b) Shrewdness (Factor N), (c) Controlled (Factor Q(,3)), (d) Protention (Factor L), (e) Surgency, enthusiastic (Factor F), (f) Liberal (Factor Q(,1)), (g) Tender-mindedness (Factor I), (h) Apprehensive (Factor O), (i) Tenseness, driven (Factor Q(,4)), (j) Imaginative (Factor M), and (k) Emotionally stable (Factor C). There was a significant positive correlation (.05) between subjects who scored high on these personality factors and their criterion score on the BIBORF. (2) There was a significant positive correlation (.05) between the subjects who scored high on the 1977-78 Basketball Rules Test, Part II, and their criterion score on the BIBORF. (3) There was a significant positive (.05) correlation between playing experience and the criterion score on the BIBORF. Other contributions of the study were: (1) This study contributes to an expansion of previous studies on the use of personality factors to evaluate the effectiveness of officials in athletics. (2) Through this study an instrument for rating the performance of basketball officials was developed and tested. (3) This study refined the use of Cattell's 16PF in the specific area of athletic officials, a category not previously mentioned by Cattell.
Subject Area
Physical education
Recommended Citation
BACHMAN, RONALD LEE, "AN ANALYTICAL STUDY OF THE CHARACTERISTICS OF INTRAMURAL BASKETBALL OFFICIALS AT THE UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA - LINCOLN" (1980). ETD collection for University of Nebraska-Lincoln. AAI8100756.
https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/dissertations/AAI8100756