The Relationship between Physical Education Teacher’s Self-efficacy and Job Satisfaction in Iraq Physical Education Colleges

Physical education (PE) is one of the important subjects in developing students’ psychomotor, cognitive and attitudes. However, previous studies in Iraq found that the implementation of PE subject was a low level, and in turn  affected students’ health and attitude. The low level of PE implementation was due to low level of teacher’s self-efficacy, and consequently its effect teacher’s job satisfaction and teacher’s performance. Using cross sectional survey design, this study was conducted to determine the relationship between teacher’s self-efficacy and teacher’s job satisfaction among physical education teachers in Iraq Physical Education Colleges. A total of 274 PE teachers from four provinces were selected randomly using cluster sample technique. The result reveals that the level of self-efficacy and job satisfaction of PE teachers are at moderate level, which mean that PE teachers’ self-efficacy an job satisfaction still not encouraging. Apart from that, the study also reveals that there is a positive relationship between PE teacher’s self-efficacy and job satisfaction. This study recommends that in order to increase teachers job satisfaction, the Iraq Physical Education Colleges need to put into consideration of enhancing teacher’s self-efficacy. Since the this study used solely quantitative approach, this study suggests to conduct qualitative study to get more insight about teachers need to enhance teacher’s self-efficacy and job satisfaction in Iraq’s environment.