Investigation of the Job Satisfaction and Creativity Levels of Physical Education and Sports Teachers

Mehmet Şükrü SAVAŞ* Murat TEKIN**

^* Aksaray University Social Sciences Institute Physical Education and Sports Department, Aksaray 68000, Turkey

^**Karamanoğlu Mehmetbey University School of  Physical Education and Sports Karaman 70100, Turkey

^ABSTRACT

The driving force in the process of transition to information society is knowledgeable people. The teacher has the greatest responsibility for raising this qualified human power. It is important for physical education and sport teachers, who have important duties in mental, physical, social and spiritual development of the students, to have high level of job satisfaction and creativity so that they can work more efficiently. Raising of the students as qualified and successful individuals is closely related to the success of teachers. The aim of this study is to examine the Job Satisfaction and Creativity Levels of Physical Education and Sports Teachers.

The research group of the consist of 30 male 22 female, 52 in total Physical Education and Sports Teachers in Karaman province.

To achieve the purpose of the research, Minnesota Satisfaction Scale developed by Weiss and et al 1967 and adapted to Turkish by Baycan (1985) And  Adaptation-Innovation Inventory (KAI)” Originally Developed By Krikton., (1999) were based on and applied to the students that participated in the research

In the analysis and assessment of the data, Kolmogorov-Smirnov test, Multiple Linear Regression, And Multivariate Manova Test, was used and significance was taken as P<0.05 and in the evaluation of the data and the determination of the calculated values, SPSS (Statistical Package for Social Sciences) package program was used.

As a result of this study; it has been found that there is a significant difference between creativity and job satisfaction levels. Furthermore, it was found that there is a significant difference between the weekly working hours, working years and gender variables and creativity and job satisfaction levels of the physical education teachers.

As a conclusion, the level of job satisfaction of physical education teachers has affected the level of creativity.

The attitudes of the people are affected by their mood. If the people have better attitudes towards their job, they get better in making judgements, their level of creativity increases and they have a room in the development chain and innovation. In addition, the study year, working hours and gender variables can change and direct the teachers' perception of job satisfaction and creativity levels. The high level of job satisfaction and creativity of physical education and sport teachers, who play an important role in the physical, social and spiritual development of the students, is important in terms of working more productively

Key words: Job Satisfaction, Creativity, Physical Education and Sport Teachers