Why Do Sports Officials Dropout?

Fabrice Dosseville (1) , François Rioult (2) , Sylvain Laborde (3, 1)

1 CesamS - Centre d'étude sport et actions motrices
2 Equipe CODAG - Laboratoire GREYC - UMR6072
3 German Sport University Cologne [Germany]

Sports officials' recruitment and retention is currently an issue for many sports. The sources of stress are numerous but seem to have a reduced impact on sport officials' dropout. To examine potential reasons of sport officiating dropout, 1718 sport officials were asked to fill a survey about their motivation, the way they trained and are evaluated, perceived stress, the qualities and skills required for officiating, and how they live their function, for a total of 135 questions. Data mining was used to extract information from the data set and transform it into an understandable structure for further use. Results show that intention to dropout among sports officials is related to the main motivation for which they begin officiating: obligation and needs of their sport association to have a sport official.

Domaines: Intelligence artificielle [cs.AI]; Modélisation et simulation

Fabrice Dosseville, François Rioult, Sylvain Laborde. Why Do Sports Officials Dropout?. MLSA13 - Machine Learning and Data Mining for Sports Analytics workshop (ECML / PKDD 2013), Sep 2013, Prague, Czech Republic. pp.1-10. ⟨hal-01011493⟩