- Title
- Exploration of the perceptual-cognitive processes that contribute to in-game decision-making of Australian football umpires
- Creator
- Larkin, Paul; Mesagno, Chrisopher; Berry, Jason; Spittle, Michael
- Date
- 2018
- Type
- Text; Journal article
- Identifier
- http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/177152
- Identifier
- vital:15229
- Identifier
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https://doi.org/10.1080/1612197X.2016.1167760
- Identifier
- ISBN:1612-197X (ISSN)
- Abstract
- Decision-making is fundamental to officiating in all sports. It is well established in contemporary research that decision-making skills underpin umpire expertise; however, there is little understanding of the cognitive processes that contribute to in-game decision-making. This research implemented an in-depth case study approach, using qualitative methods, to explore the in-game decision-making process of three Australian football umpires. Concurrent and retrospective verbalisation methods were used to obtain verbal reports of the cognitive processes associated with decision-making. Findings identified three salient themes related to both in-game decision-making processes (i.e. decision evaluation, player intention during game-play) and umpire performance (i.e. knowledge of game-play). These themes contributed to the development of decision-making heuristics for Australian football umpires. This study provides initial evidence of the factors that may contribute to and/or affect in-game decision-making processes; however, additional exploration is necessary to further inform training programmes aimed to develop domain-specific decision-making skills and subsequent in-game performance. © 2016 International Society of Sport Psychology.
- Publisher
- Taylor and Francis Inc.
- Relation
- International Journal of Sport and Exercise Psychology Vol. 16, no. 2 (2018), p. 112-124
- Rights
- All metadata describing materials held in, or linked to, the repository is freely available under a CC0 licence
- Rights
- Copyright © 2016 International Society of Sport Psychology
- Rights
- Open Access
- Subject
- 1302 Curriculum and Pedagogy; 1701 Psychology; 1702 Cognitive Sciences; Cognition; Decision-making process; Performance; Sports officials; Verbalisation
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