Officiating stress and coping strategies among male student basketball referees in China: a procedural grounded theory study
Jinchen Pan, Shuo Fang, Ziyuan Quan, Xin Huang, Lei Zheng · 2026
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Jinchen Pan and colleagues build a theory of referee stress. Their interview study was published in 2026. It covers male student basketball referees in China. Twenty-eight referees gave deep interviews. Coding ran in three passes with software help. No new ideas appeared after the 26th talk. Coding yielded 979 points in total. Those points sorted into 53 first groups. Five main pressure families held them all.
Pressures spanned several sources at once. Personal traits formed one source. Crowd and coach relations formed another. Split-second calls added match pressure. Event mishaps added still more strain. Pressures fed each other in a rising loop. Moderate pressure aided learning, though. Coping leaned on self-calming and peer support. Skill growth helped as well. Stronger backing from organisers is urged.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Jinchen Pan, Shuo Fang, Ziyuan Quan, Xin Huang, Lei Zheng |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 90018 |
| LICENSE | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |