Examination of physical education and sports teacher candidates attitudes towards the profession

The purpose of study is to determine attitudes towards profession between candidate teachers who study physical education and sport teaching and who have pedagogical formation via various variables. 407 students who are currently pedagogical formation education and study of physical education and sports during 2018-2019 period at physical education and sports department of Kastamonu University participated in this study. The "Physical Education Teaching Attitude Scale", which included the personal information form consisting of 4 sub-dimensions and 23 questions to discover 'love and anxiety towards occupation, was applied to the participants. The datas analyzed via SPSS package program. Kolmogorov-Smirnov Test results, the data did not present normality. Therefore, Mann-Whitney U Test for pairwise comparison and Kruskal Wallis H Test for more than two comparisons were used. P<0,05 used as significance value. According to the findings, students of physical education and sport presented higher anxiety values than those who have pedagogic formation.