A Critical Review of the Impact of Perceived Ethical Fairness in Taekwondo Digital Officiating on Competitive Anxiety

Key Points

• The aim is to explore how perceived ethical fairness in Taekwondo digital officiating mediates the connection between trust and competitive anxiety.
• Conducted a critical literature review focusing on prior studies published in KCI and SSCI journals.
• Applied normative theories of sports ethics such as deontology, virtue ethics, utilitarianism, and contractarianism to reconstruct the interplay of technology, norms, and psychology.
• Extracted key arguments related to ethical tasks and moral uncertainties from Taekwondo's digital officiating context.
• Digital officiating in Taekwondo entails ethical challenges beyond mere technical accuracy, highlighting issues of justice and legitimacy.
• Competitive anxiety may stem from emotional indicators of moral uncertainty linked to procedural deficits and accountability.
• Proposes a conceptual model and measurement structure for future quantitative verification of the 'perceived fairness-trust-competitive anxiety' relationship.

Abstract