The evaluation and analysis of physical education and sports teachers recreation habits and job satisfactions (İstanbul-Pendik example)

The purpose of this study is to evaluate and analyse the recreation habits and job satisfactions of physical education and sports teachers who work in Pendik district of İstanbul Province. The physical education and sports teachers in Pendik, İstanbul constitute the study group of the work. 29 female and 84 male in total 113 teachers have taken part in the research voluntarily.The data in the research intended to evaluate and analyse the recreation habits and job satisfactions of physical education and sports teachers working in Pendik district of İstanbul Province were collected by means of 3 scales. Personal Information Form, Minnesota Job Satisfaction Questionnaire and Recreation Activities Determination Form questionnaires were applied. In the analysis of the data were analyzed in terms of the questionnaires, percentage and frequency distributions were extracted; Chi-Square test, cross tabulation t-test and analysis of variance were used. In statistical analysis, data were analyzed with the help of SPSS 15.0 and the significance rate was determined 0,05.According to the findings of this study, statistically significant differences were not found between job satisfactions, ages and genders of physical education and sports teachers. However, there were statistically significant differences between the recreation preferences, ages and genders of physical education and sports teachers (p < 0.05). Also, statistically significant differences were found between recreation preferences and job satisfactions of physical education and sports teachers (p > 0.05).Key Words: Physical Education and Sports Teacher, Leisure Time, Job Satisfactions