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Participants completed validated measures of mental ill-health symptoms (Depression, Anxiety, Stress Scale) and daily hassles (LIVES-Daily Hassles Scale) and reported the frequency with which they experienced positive and negative officiating interactions.<\/jats:p>\n          <\/jats:sec>\n          <jats:sec>\n            <jats:title>Results<\/jats:title>\n            <jats:p>A total of 320 sports officials (73.8% male; mean age\u2009\u00b1\u2009standard deviation (SD)\u2009=\u200949.99\u2009\u00b1\u200915.86\u00a0years) completed the survey with the most represented sports including cricket (30.3%), rugby union (24.4%) and football (soccer) [16.9%]. Regular positive officiating interactions were experienced by 90.0% of sports officials and regular negative officiating interactions by 22.2%. Logistic regression analyses revealed that male sports officials (odds ratio (OR)\u2009=\u20093.95; 95% confidence interval (CI)\u2009=\u20091.34, 11.65) were significantly more likely to experience regular positive interactions, while football officials (OR\u2009=\u20097.33; 95% CI\u2009=\u20091.38, 38.90) were significantly more likely to experience regular negative interactions. When controlling for daily hassles, age and sex, regular positive interactions were independently associated with lower odds of depression (OR\u2009=\u20090.38; 95% CI\u2009=\u20090.15, 0.92) and anxiety (OR\u2009=\u20090.33; 95% CI\u2009=\u20090.13, 0.82) symptoms. However, regular negative officiating interactions were not independently associated with mental ill-health symptoms.<\/jats:p>\n          <\/jats:sec>\n          <jats:sec>\n            <jats:title>Conclusions<\/jats:title>\n            <jats:p>Positive officiating interactions were commonly experienced and independently predicted lower odds of mental ill-health symptoms. Approximately one fifth of officials reported regular negative interactions, although this was notably higher among football officials. No independent association existed between negative interactions and mental ill-health symptoms, and future research should determine if positive interactions help to offset the impact of negative ones for sports officials.<\/jats:p>\n          <\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.1007\/s40279-025-02216-3","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2025,4,10]],"date-time":"2025-04-10T16:47:31Z","timestamp":1744303651000},"page":"1527-1542","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1007\/springer_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":5,"title":["The Frequency and Determinants of Positive and Negative Officiating Interactions and the Relationships with Mental Ill-Health Symptoms in Sports Officials"],"prefix":"10.1007","volume":"55","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0009-0002-7452-503X","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Matthew","family":"McKeen","sequence":"first","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-7552-1412","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Clare","family":"Stevinson","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"297","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2025,4,10]]},"reference":[{"issue":"1","key":"2216_CR1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","first-page":"199","DOI":"10.1080\/16184742.2022.2099441","volume":"24","author":"D Mojtahedi","year":"2022","unstructured":"Mojtahedi D, Webb T, Leadley CB, Jones M. 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