Investigation Of The Relationship Between Physical Education Teachers' Perceptions Of Professional Identity And Organizational Justice

Abstract

Background and Study Aim. The aim of this study; It is to determine the level of Relationship between Physical   Education Teachers' Perceptions of Professional Identity and Organizational Justice Perceptions.

Material and Methods.     In the research, 'Rational Screening' and 'Causal- Comparison' patterns were adopted from quantitative research patterns. Working group; 101 physical education and sports teachers working in primary and secondary education official institutions in Isparta province of 2022-2023 academic year participated. In the study, 'Organizational Justice Scale', 'Occupational Identity Perception Scale (MCA)' and personal information form were used as data collection tools. Since the data obtained are normally distributed, Pearson correlation test, one of the correlation tests, was used to determine the relationship between organizational justice and Occupational Identity Perception of the participants according to Gender, Age, Education Status. In this study, the error level was taken as 0.05. SPSS 22.0 statistical package program was used to evaluate the data and find the calculated values.

Results. As a result; In the research, it was determined that there is a negative relationship between the sub-dimensions of the perceptions of organizational justice and the sub-dimensions of the perceptions of professional identity of physical education and sports teachers. While there is a positive relationship between the occupational identity perception sub-dimensions according to the gender and education status variable, it has been concluded that there is a negative relationship between the occupational identity perception sub-dimensions according to the age variable. According to the age variable, it has been concluded that there is a meaningful relationship in the sub-dimensions of organizational justice.

Conclusions.       It can be said that the justice of the teachers within the organization affects their teaching identities positively or negatively