Teachers and their Attitude Towards Teaching

Job satisfaction and job attitude are identical and show the emotional reaction of the employees towards their existing job roles. However, this approach may not be appropriate because job attitude is one of the factors affecting job satisfaction. Job satisfaction appears as a general attitude formed by several effective attitudes from many areas. Job attitude is the employee's condition of readiness to act to achieve job related goals, determined by job related personal factors. The objective of the study was to compare the job satisfaction among Physical Education teachers and their attitude towards teaching. The Present study was conducted on 65 Physical Education teachers, working in various Senior Secondary Schools of Karnal and Kurukshetra Districts (Haryana).

The Spearman's rank correlation was computed between the total Job Satisfaction Scores and Total Attitude Scores for respondents. The coefficient of correlation comes out to be 0.04. It means the Job Satisfaction and Attitude of the teachers towards teaching are (+) negligible correlated with each other. T-Test was applied to find out the significant differences between the married and unmarried, Male & Female, Graduate & Post-Graduate and High & Low Income groups of Physical Education teachers and it is concluded that the level of job satisfaction and the attitude of the teachers towards teaching is least affected by the gender, the marital status, minimum qualification and the income group of the physical education teaches. All have equal level of job satisfaction and the same attitude towards teaching.