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The purpose of this study was to compare the job satisfaction levels of physical education teachers working in the schools of public and private sectors in the provinces of Ankara and Adana from the aspects of type of management, development and promotion, wages and staff, working facilities, physical environment and colleagues and to determine if there is a difference in terms of individualistic characteristics. The participants of this study comprised a total of 375 physical education teachers, 171 working in the province of Adana and 204 in the province of Ankara. The Job Satisfaction Scale which was developed by Çetinkanat (1995) consists of 71 items covering 32 real situations, 32 ideal situations and personal information, was used to determine the job satisfaction levels of participants. The questionnaire consist of seven subscales. The reliability of the subscales of the questionnaire ranged between 0.58-0.89. Data were analysed with regards to gender, marital status, province, types of school, work place and professional experience. Mann-Whitney U Test and One Way Analysis of Variance were used for data analysis. According to the results of the analysis there was no significant difference between the job satisfaction levels of the physical education teachers in terms of the criteria of gender, marital status and work place (p>0.05). However, significant difference was found in the job satisfaction in terms of working facilities due to the province and physical environment. There was a significant difference in job satisfaction of physical education teachers in terms of colleague factor in line with the criteria of age and professional experience. With regard to the type of school where the physical education teachers work, there was a significant difference in job satisfaction levels from all aspects but the type of management (p<0.05).

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