Attentional control and its relationship to signal communication for volleyball referees in Iraq

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is preparing measures of attentional control and signal communication to identify their level among volleyball referees in Iraq, and to identify the correlation between attentional control and signal communication among volleyball referees in Iraq. The research community was determined from the working referees accredited and registered in the records of the Iraqi Central Volleyball Federation, which numbered (90) referees, distributed on the three arbitration degrees (international, first, second), and the research sample was chosen by a comprehensive inventory method. The researchers applied the two scales to the research sample, and five were extracted Standard levels for the sample using the statistical bag (Spss) to extract the results, and among the results that the research came out with, there is a significant correlation between attentional control and signal communication among volleyball referees in Iraq the level of the international judges in the measure of attentional control and signal communication is slightly higher than that of the first and second-degree judges. Among the recommendations that came out of the research is the necessity of involving referees in courses and lectures related to the development of mental processes, especially attentional control, and the importance of communication with reference to volleyball referees in Iraq, as they are one of the basic requirements that raise the level of performance of referees in league matches.