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The purpose of this study was to investigate the role of passion in predicting job and life satisfaction in fitness leaders and examine the sex and job experience differences in these variables. Two hundred (Mage=29.52+-4.38) fitness leaders participated in this study. “Passion Scale” (Vallerand et al., 2003), “Satisfaction with Life Scale” (Diener et al., 1985), and “Minnesota Job Satisfaction Questionnaire” (Weiss et al., 1967) were administered to participants. Stepwise Multiple Regression Analysis was used to determine whether fitness leaders’ levels of passion predict their job and life satisfaction. 2x2 (sex x year of job experience) Multivariate Analysis of Variance (MANOVA) was used to test the sex and year of job experience differences in passion and job satisfaction. Furthermore, 2x2 ANOVA was conducted to test sex and year of job experiences differences in life satisfaction. Results of Regression Analysis indicated that obsessive passion was a significant predictor of extrinsic job satisfaction; both harmonious and obsessive passion were a significant predictor of intrinsic job satisfaction, general job satisfaction and life satisfaction of fitness leaders (p<.01). The MANOVA results showed that participants’ passion scores differed with regard to year of job experiences (p<.05), but there were no differences with regard to sex (p>.05). On the other hand, MANOVA and ANOVA analysis indicated that fitness leaders’ job satisfaction and life satisfaction scores didn’t differ with respect to sex and year of job experience (p>.05). It can be said that, the more fitness leaders love their profession, make more effort on it and the more they become addict on their profession, the more they satisfy with their job and life. In addition, sex and job experience has no effects on fitness leaders’ job satisfaction and life satisfaction.

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