Comparison of the Physical Education and Sports Teacher Candidates’ Professional Anxieties with Other Teacher Candidates

Abstract

This research was conducted in order to examine the professional anxieties of teacher candidates who are studying in Physical Education and Sports, Music, Class, Turkish and Art Teacher Education. In the research 300 candidate teachers were determined by stratified sampling method and the Professional anxieties scale which was developed by Cabı and Yalçınalp (2013), was applied to these 300 candidate teachers with face to face interview method. The scale consists of 8 sub dimensions and 45 items. The cronbach alpha reliability coefficient of the scale was .94 for this study. In the evaluation of the data the significance level was taken as .05. According to findings; The total anxiety scores of the teacher candidates and the assignment anxiety subscale scores were compared according to their ages and the difference between them was statistically significant (p<0.05). When the total professional anxiety scores of the teacher candidates were compared according to gender, a significant difference was found (p<0.05). When the personal developmental centered anxiety subscale total scores of the teacher candidates were compared accordingtodepartment of education,a meaningful difference was found between Physical Education and Sports teaching and Turkish Education teaching departments (p<0.05).  As a result, the economic centered anxieties and appointment anxieties of Physical Education and Sports teacher candidates were different from the other candidates.

Keywords: Physical Education, Professional anxieties, Teacher candidate