Indicators and Components Affecting the Empowerment and Professional Qualification of Taekwondo judges (Exploration and Validation with a Mixed Approach)

The present research was carried out with the general purpose of identifying the indicators and components affecting the empowerment and professional competence of taekwondo judges and exploration and validation with a mixed approach.

The present research method is a mixed method (qualitative and quantitative), which is part of exploratory research in terms of its purpose and fundamental and applied research in terms of results. The statistical population of the research included all international taekwondo referees and expert sports referees, taekwondo sports specialists, managers of the Taekwondo Federation and expert athletes of this field. In the qualitative part, sampling was done with the purposeful sampling method and the snowball technique, and in the quantitative part, the sample size was obtained using Morgan's table and the sampling was done by stratified random method. The measurement tools of the research were interviews and questionnaires. The interview was conducted in a semi-structured way and the results of the interviews were used to create a questionnaire. After confirming the validity of the questionnaire, its reliability was also confirmed by calculating Cronbach's alpha coefficient. In order to analyze the collected data, descriptive and inferential statistics methods were used. In the inferential statistics section, it was used to identify and explain the factors affecting the empowerment and professional competence of Taekwondo referees, and the research model was designed with the help of Smart PLS version 3 software.

The results of the confirmatory factor analysis test showed that the questionnaire of factors affecting the empowerment and professional competence of taekwondo referees had good construct validity.

The factors and components identified in it can be used as factors affecting the empowerment and professional competence of Taekwondo judges.