The effect of factors preventing football referees in İstanbul provincial referee classification from participating in recreational activities on life satisfaction

In this study, which was conducted to examine the effect of the factors that prevent the participation of football referees in the provincial referee classification in Istanbul in recreational activities on life satisfaction; The research was designed as a relational screening model and was limited to Provincial Referees located in Istanbul. A total of 353 football referee in the provincial referee class, 328 of them male and 25 female, were adapted to Turkish by Gürbüz et al. (2012), made by Alexandris and Carroll (1997), developed by the "Free Time Barriers Scale-18 (SEÖ)" and Diener et al. The life satisfaction scale developed by (1985) in order to determine the satisfaction that individuals receive from their lives and the information form questions created by the researcher were asked through a questionnaire. In the questionnaire form created by the researcher, the referees were asked questions about age, gender, education level, income level and how many years they have been arbitrating. SPSS 21.0 program was used to analyze the data collected in the study. In the analysis of the research data, descriptive statistics such as arithmetic mean, frequency, standard deviation and percentage values were used. The data obtained from the Leisure Time Barriers Scale and Life Satisfaction Scale used in the study were analyzed for normal distribution, and kurtosis and skewness values were calculated as a result of the analysis.As a result of the normal distribution analysis, the skewness and kurtosis values obtained from the research scale are outside the December range of -2 to +2. Accordingly, it was accepted that the obtained data did not show a normal distribution, and non-parametric tests were used in independent intergroup comparisons. Dec. The Mann-Whitney U test was used for binary comparisons and the Kruskal Wallis test was used for multiple comparisons. According to the data obtained from the scales related to the factors preventing the football referees in the provincial referee classification from participating in recreational activities and the level of life satisfaction, the perception levels of football referees about leisure time obstacles are significant with a mean of x=3,33±0,32. A result at this level was obtained in the general average and sub-dimensions of the scale. When the perceptions of football referees in the Provincial Referee classification about life satisfaction were examined, a mean of x=2.04±1.11 was obtained and it was concluded that their life satisfaction was at a low level (at the level of disagree).Keywords: Referee, Provincial Referee, Football, Football Referee, Istanbul, Life Satisfaction, Recreation, Satisfaction, Leisure Time.