Referee Abuse, Intention to Quit, and Well-Being

Downward, Paul; Webb, Tom; Dawson, Peter

doi:10.1080/02701367.2023.2184459

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“…Part of this also requires careful examination of what we expect to have happen when such an initiative is siloed from other health and welfare issues, including match official harassment and abuse. Experiences of abuse impact the welfare and retention of match officials in sports ( 78 , 79 ), as well as their ability to manage the match and ensure the safety of athletes ( 73 , 80 ). Yes, we recognize that rugby governing bodies have responded to referee harassment and abuse by implementing strategies to safeguard match officials from the amateur level ( 81 ) up to international competitions ( 82 ).…”

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“…Current approaches to training and education for the Blue Card and concussion management are primarily static and siloed. Organizations have a duty of care to provide support through the adoption and active communication of a zerotolerance policy (74,78) alongside processes for reporting instances of match official abuse and follow-up support (46) to promote the retention of match officials in rugby. We recommend that sport organizations explicitly connect concerns for match official abuse to concussion management efforts.…”

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An examination of social relations and concussion management via the blue card

Jorgensen,

Safai,

Mainwaring

2024

Front. Sports Act. Living

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IntroductionInitially developed by New Zealand Rugby in 2014, the Blue Card initiative in rugby enables match officials to remove athletes from play if they are suspected to have sustained a concussion. Considerable attention has been paid by sport and health advocates to the possibilities and limitations of this initiative in safeguarding athlete health. However, little if any attention has been paid to the well-being of those responsible for administering the Blue Card (i.e., match officials). The aim of this paper was to examine match officials' experiences with and perspectives on implementing the Blue Card initiative in Ontario, Canada, with focused attention on the tensions around their ability to manage games and participants (e.g., athletes, coaches) while attempting to safeguard athlete well-being.MethodsUsing Relational Coordination Theory (RCT) as a guiding framework and qualitative research method, we highlight the rich accounts of 19 match officials' perspectives and experiences regarding sport-related concussion (SRC) management and the Blue Card protocol.ResultsFour themes were derived from the data, reflecting latent assumptions embedded within the concussion management process, which include: assumptions of trust, respect, and cooperation; assumptions of shared responsibility; assumptions of shared understanding; and assumptions of harassment-free sport.DiscussionOur findings emphasize the need to attend to social relations in concussion management and provide insight into match officials' fraught experiences on the frontlines of concussion management. We identify factors affecting match official well-being and provide considerations for concussion management initiatives designed to improve athlete safety, such as the Blue Card.

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Section: Pulling the Threads Togethermentioning

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An examination of social relations and concussion management via the blue card

Jorgensen,

Safai,

Mainwaring

2024

Front. Sports Act. Living

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“…These individuals are critical for ensuring fair sporting competitions (Hancock et al 2020), yet their numbers have been dwindling due to one key reason -abuse. This abuse causes individual officials to not want to officiate, or to quit, and is generating issues from recruiting to retaining officials (Clegland et al 2017, Downward et al 2023, Mojtahedi et al 2022, Pierce et al 2020, Webb et al 2019a. The abuse crisis (Pierce et al 2020) has led to metal health issues for some game officials (Brick et al 2022).…”

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ATINER is an independent and non-profit Association with a Mission to become a forum where Academics and Researchers from all over the world can meet in Athens, exchange ideas on their research and discuss future developments in their disciplines, as well as engage with professionals from other fields. Athens was chosen because of its long history of academic gatherings, which go back thousands of years to Plato's Academy and Aristotle's Lyceum. Both these historic places are within walking distance from ATINER's downtown offices. Since antiquity, Athens was an open city. In the words of Pericles, Athens"…is open to the world, we never expel a foreigner from learning or seeing". ("Pericles' Funeral Oration", in Thucydides, The History of the Peloponnesian War). It is ATINER's mission to revive the glory of Ancient Athens by inviting the World Academic Community to the city, to learn from each other in an environment of freedom and respect for other people's opinions and beliefs. After all, the free expression of one's opinion formed the basis for the development of democracy, and Athens was its cradle. As it turned out, the Golden Age of Athens was in fact, the Golden Age of the Western Civilization. Education and (Re)searching for the 'truth' are the pillars of any free (democratic) society. This is the reason why Education and Research are the two core words in ATINER's name.

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Sports officials and parents as spectators: Diffusing tensions on the sidelines

Webb,

Knight

2023

Journal of Applied Sport Psychology

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Referee Abuse, Intention to Quit, and Well-Being

Cited by 10 publications

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An examination of social relations and concussion management via the blue card

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Sports officials and parents as spectators: Diffusing tensions on the sidelines

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