ABSTRACT

Research purpose

The purpose of this scoping review is to explore the extant literature devoted to female officials at the community level of sport in order to identify existing knowledge and to determine a future research agenda that will address the underrepresentation of women amongst sport officials. Over the past two decades, there has been an increase in female sport participation in countries around the world, however, this has not been matched with an increase in the number of females taking up roles as officials (referees, umpires, judges, scorers, etc.) at the community level of sport.

Research methods

This paper uses a scoping review methodology to synthesize and analyse the extant research published on female community sport officials, to identify gaps in the existing literature, and to provide directions for future research.

Results and findings

It identifies a general lack of reported research on female officials within community levels of sport and that the existing research that has been published to date has focused on four themes: motives, barriers, supports and retention.

Implications

The paper proposes a research agenda focused on seven key themes: policy and governance, officiating pathways, recruitment, support, retention, performance, stress and well-being, as well as suggestions for research methods to explore these themes. Summarizing the current research literature on female community sport officials may help researchers, practitioners and policy makers understand the range of issues associated with the experience of female community sport officials and begin to prioritize efforts to address the lack of female sports officials.

中文翻译：

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女性志愿者社区体育官员：范围界定审查和研究议程

摘要

研究目的

本范围界定审查的目的是探索现有的专门针对体育社区层面女性官员的文献，以确定现有知识并确定未来的研究议程，以解决女性在体育官员中代表性不足的问题。在过去的二十年里，世界各国女性参与体育运动的人数有所增加，但这与女性担任官员（裁判员、裁判员、裁判员、记分员、等）在社区层面的体育运动。

研究方法

本文采用范围界定审查方法，综合和分析现有的关于女性社区体育官员的研究，找出现有文献中的差距，并为未来的研究提供方向。

结果和发现

它确定了普遍缺乏对社区体育运动中女性官员的研究报道，并且迄今为止已发表的现有研究集中在四个主题上：动机、障碍、支持和保留。

启示

本文提出了一个研究议程，重点关注七个关键主题：政策和治理、管理途径、招聘、支持、保留、绩效、压力和幸福感，以及探索这些主题的研究方法建议。总结当前关于女性社区体育官员的研究文献可能有助于研究人员、从业者和政策制定者了解与女性社区体育官员的经历相关的一系列问题，并开始优先考虑解决女性体育官员短缺的问题。