L' autoefficacia permette di prevedere la prestazione arbitrale nel calcio? Uno studio longitudinale condotto attraverso Modelli di Equazioni Strutturali

The aim of the study is to evaluate if self-reported self-efficacy predicts football officials’ performance, judged by outside observers. At the beginning of the football championship season 146 Italian football’s officials (mean age: 20.2; SD: 2.8) completed a 13-item self-efficacy scale for officiating. Participants have been followed for one year by outside observers who rate several aspects of their performance, This is a standard procedure for football’s officials. Specifically, athletic. Technical, behavioural and disciplinary performance scores ere recorded. Several observations were collected for each official during the season. A structural equation model was run, In this model self-efficacy items were considered as indicators of a self-rfficacy latent variable which have been considered as independent in the model. For each aspect of the performance (athletic, technical, behavioural and disciplinary) rate by the outside observes , it was calculated a mean of observations. These means served as indicators of the latent variable “outside observations” which has been considered as a dependent variable in the model. Results indicated that the mod fit adequately the data (CFI:93;NNFI: 92; RMSEA:.06;CI::051-.08)