INVESTIGATION OF EMOTIONAL LEVELS OF PHYSICAL EDUCATION AND SPORTS TEACHERS (Sample of Aksaray Province)

The aim of the study was to examine the levels of emotional intelligence of physical education and sports teachers according to gender, age, years of service, and whether doing sports as professionally or not. Sampling group consisted of 223 physical education and sports teachers (154 males and 69 females) from secondary and high schools in Aksaray. In order to determine teachers’ emotional intelligence levels, the Schutte Emotional Intelligence Scale which was designed by Schutte et al. (1998) and revised as a 41 item questionnaire by Austin et al (2004) and adopted into Turkish by Tatar et al. (2011) was used. As a result, there was no significant difference between the emotional intelligence levels of physical education and sports teachers according to gender, age, years of service and perform sports professionally or not.