Evaluation of Personal Traits of Physical Education Teachers: Personality and Physical Education

The aim of the research is to evaluate the relationship between the personal traits of physical education teachers working in secondary schools with sport type, sports branch, gender, years of service and school type. With this aim, the research was completed with a screening model. The research was completed with PET (Physical Education Teachers) working at state and private secondary schools linked to the Ministry of National Education in Istanbul during the school year 2012-2013. The study group for the research comprised 296 PET working at these schools who volunteered. The research group was formed of 36.8% women (n = 109) and 63.2% men (n = 187) PET. To measure the personality traits of participants in the research a 25-item PERI (Personality Inventory) personality scale was used. The scale was administered to teachers using a face-to-face technique with the researcher. The results of the research found there was no significant difference found between the sports branch, sport type, gender, years of service and school type of PET with personality traits.