The relationship between attitudes toward participation in physical activities and motives for choosing teaching physical education as a career

This study aims at investigating the relationship between physical education teachers attitudes toward participation in physical activity and their motives toward choosing physical education as a teaching profession. Two questionnaires with a sample of 98 participants were employed as a data collection vehicle. The results showed that participants in this study had strong attitudes toward physical activities. Furthermore,participants expressed a mixture of intrinsic and extrinsic reasons as to why they opted for physical education as a teaching profession. Moreover,the findings revealed a significant relationship between participants attitudes toward participation in physical activity and their motives toward choosing physical education as a teaching profession.