Background: This study was conducted to determine the job satisfaction of Physical Education and Sports

teachers in the distance education process caused by the Covid-19 pandemic according to some variables in the

2020-2021 academic year.

Aim: What kinds of variables were affected by physical education and sports teachers in the conduct of

educational processes during Covid-19? Investigating job satisfaction according to some variables.

Methods: In order to collect data, in the first section, the personal information form was used. In the second

section, to determine the job satisfaction levels of physical education and sports teachers the Minnesota Job

Satisfaction Questionnaire (MSQ) developed by Weiss, Davis, England, and Lofguist and adapted into Turkish by

Baycan was used. In the analysis of the data, descriptive statistics and non-parametric tests were used in the first

stage. In the next step, Mann Whitney U test was used for comparisons of two groups, and Kruskal Wallis H test

was used for comparing more than two groups. Cronbach’s alpha coefficient of the MSQ was 0.83. As a result of

the analysis, statistically, significant differences were found among physical education and sports teachers’

variables such as age, gender, education level, as well as internal and external satisfaction dimensions.

Results: The result of the study showed that the job satisfaction of physical education and sports teachers in the

distance education process was high level in the internal satisfaction dimension, and medium level in the external

satisfaction dimension and total job satisfaction.

Conclusion: Based on the results obtained in this study, it is suggested that in the future, different studies related

to distance education and job satisfaction of physical education teachers should be carried out, and studies

examining their professional changes and different working styles are recommended.

Keywords: Covid-19 pandemic, physical education and sports teacher, job satisfaction