The aim of this study was to investigate the stress coping levels and aerobic toughness of soccer referees. In the study, descriptive model from quantitative research approaches was used. The population of the study consisted of football referees working in Turkey and the sample consisted of 58 referees working in Trabzon province. In the study, the scale of "individual, environmental and organizational stress sources of football referees" prepared by Çakmak (2011) was used to collect data and aerobic toughness data were obtained from Trabzon Provincial Referee Board as a result of the Cooper test administered by TFF to referees before each season. IBM SPSS Statistics for Windows, Version 22.0. was used for statistical analysis and calculations. According to the findings of the study, there was no statistically significant difference between the individual, environmental and organizational factors in terms of coping with stress in terms of age, gender, marital status, classification groups, refereeing period, profession other than refereeing and aerobic toughness (p>0.05). The difference between the educational level groups in the distribution of individual factors among the levels of coping with stress was found statistically significant (p0.05). A positive, moderate and statistically significant relationship was found between individual, environmental and organizational factors in terms of coping with stress levels (p<0.05). As a result, it is thought that football referees with different age, gender, marital status, classification groups, refereeing time, occupation other than refereeing and aerobic toughness have similar levels of coping with stress.
AKÇAY et al. (Tue,) studied this question.