Investigation of job satisfaction levels of physical education and sports teachers in COVID-19 pandemic

Abstract

Background: This study was conducted to determine the job satisfaction of Physical Education and Sports teachers in the distance education process caused by the Covid-19 pandemic according to some variables in the 2020-2021 academic year. Aim: What kinds of variables were affected by physical education and sports teachers in the conduct of educational processes during Covid-19? Investigating job satisfaction according to some variables. Methods: In order to collect data, in the first section, the personal information form was used. In the second section, to determine the job satisfaction levels of physical education and sports teachers the Minnesota Job Satisfaction Questionnaire (MSQ) developed by Weiss, Davis, England, and Lofguist and adapted into Turkish by Baycan was used. In the analysis of the data, descriptive statistics and non-parametric tests were used in the first stage. In the next step, Mann Whitney U test was used for comparisons of two groups, and Kruskal Wallis H test was used for comparing more than two groups. Cronbach’s alpha coefficient of the MSQ was 0.83. As a result of the analysis, statistically, significant differences were found among physical education and sports teachers’ variables such as age, gender, education level, as well as internal and external satisfaction dimensions. Results: The result of the study showed that the job satisfaction of physical education and sports teachers in the distance education process was high level in the internal satisfaction dimension, and medium level in the external satisfaction dimension and total job satisfaction. Conclusion: Based on the results obtained in this study, it is suggested that in the future, different studies related to distance education and job satisfaction of physical education teachers should be carried out, and studies examining their professional changes and different working styles are recommended.