Farshad Tojjari, Mohammad Reza Esmaeili and Reza Bavandpour
The present research aims to investigate the effect of self-efficiency on job satisfaction of sport referees. The research method was descriptive. The research population consisted of 380 official football referees. The sample consisted of 191 randomly selected referees, size of which was determined by Morgan table. Sherer's general selfefficacy scale was used for data collection. The professional self-efficacy was also evaluated based on this questionnaire. Also, to measure the job satisfaction, Weiss et al.'s job satisfaction scale was used. The validity of questionnaires was approved by 12 expert Teachers and their reliability was confirmed by Cronbach's alpha coefficients of 0.88 and 0.84, respectively. The results showed that the general self-efficacy of sport referees has a significant effect on intrinsic and extrinsic factors of job satisfaction, while this effect was not significant for general factors of job satisfaction. The perceived self-efficacy of referees showed no significant effect on none of intrinsic, extrinsic or general factors of job satisfaction.
