Study on Emotional Intelligence Levels of Physical Education Teachers in Terms of Various Variables

Abstract

For teaching profession, one of the important types of intelligence is emotional intelligence. Emotional intelligence levels of especially physical education teachers are expected to be high. The aim of this study is to examine emotional intelligence levels of physical education and sports teachers based on various variables. In this research, single screening model which is one of the General Survey models has been adopted. Population of the study consists of 320 Physical Education Teachers working in Ağrı in 2018-2019 academic years and its sample group consists of a total of 106 physical education teachers, of which 23 are female and 83 are male and who were selected from this population by random sampling method. “Personal Information Form” developed by researchers has been used in order to determine demographic characteristics of Physical Education Teachers, “Schutte Emotional Intelligence Scale” developed by Schutte et al. (1998) has been used in order to measure their emotional intelligence levels. According to findings, it has been seen that emotional intelligence levels of physical education teachers differentiate significantly in favor of physical education and sports teachers do not have administrative function in sub-dimension of utilizations of emotions according to administrative function variable. It has been determined that there is no significant difference between them according to gender, age and professional experience, education grade which is worked in, educational level, marital status, status of doing sports and smoking variables. Consequently, it is seen that emotional intelligence levels of physical education teachers are above medium level and there is no difference between them in terms of other variables except variable of having administrative function.

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