Psychophysiological assessment of sense of time in football referees of different qualifications

Purpose: to study the features of sense of time in football referees of different qualifications. Research methods. 25 football referees of the Crimean Football Union were divided into three groups depending on the refereeing experience and qualification level. All test subjects were tested for τ-type definition as a unit of perception of their own time and quantitative assessment of temperament by B. I. Tsukanov method. Referees heard audio signals in the intervals 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 seconds alternately in a random order. The test subjects were supposed to reproduce the proposed period of time as accurately as possible without seeing the dial. The Τ-type was calculated by dividing the sum of the reproduced stimuli by the sum of the presented stimuli. Results. It is demonstrated that the entry-level referees made the greatest "error" in time deviation – 5.75±0.02 s (p<0.01), and the judges of the third and regional categories were extremely accurate – their "error" was equal to 2.63±0.01 s and 1.78±0.01 s, respectively. Moreover, the last two groups did not have significant differences between them. Consequently, judges with less experience make more mistakes in time reproduction.

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