Abstract

The purpose of this study was to investigate the motivations of high school teachers for participation in physical activities in terms of some variables. The general survey model was employed in the study and 266 teachers from the city center of Batman province of Turkey participated in the study. Personal information form and “the Motivation Scale for Participation in Physical Activity (MSPPA),” which was developed by Tekkurşun and Cicioğlu (2018), were used in the study. The statistical analysis of the data obtained in the study was performed through SPSS 23.00 software and Mann Whitney U and Kruskal Wallis tests, which are two of the non-parametric tests, were applied, as the data did not have a normal distribution. The findings showed that there was no statistically significant difference in terms of the gender variable. However, there was a statistically significant difference in terms of the age variable. This difference was found to be in the environmental factors sub-dimension. At the motivation level, the motivations of the participants for participating in physical activities were found to be high. In conclusion, it can be suggested that the motivations of the participants for participating in physical activities were high and affected by the environmental causes.

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