Purpose: 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.
Materials and Methods: 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.
Findings: 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.
Conclusion: The factors and components identified in it can 
be used as factors affecting the empowerment and professional 
competence of Taekwondo judges.