Prediction of the Satisfaction With the Student Life, Based on Teaching Competence and Satisfaction With the School

Raúl Baños; Antonio Baena-Extremera; María Del Mar Ortiz-Camacho

doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2019.02506

Prediction of the Satisfaction With the Student Life, Based on Teaching Competence and Satisfaction With the School

Front Psychol. 2019 Nov 21:10:2506. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2019.02506. eCollection 2019.

Authors

Raúl Baños¹, Antonio Baena-Extremera², María Del Mar Ortiz-Camacho²

Affiliations

¹ Department of Physical Education and Sports Science, Autonomous University of Baja California, Ensenada, Mexico.
² Department of Didactic of Corporal Expression, Faculty of Education Sciences, University of Granada, Granada, Spain.

Abstract

The aim of this article was to assess how students evaluate the professional personality competence of physical education teachers in high school and its relation to student satisfaction and student satisfaction with life itself. In line with these aims, this study was completed as a cross-sectional study, which was carried out in a group of 890 physical education students. Of the study group, 50.3% were female and 49.7% were male. The average age was 15.49 years for females (SD 1.79) and 15.00 years for males (SD 2.00). We used a questionnaire featuring the Physical Education Teacher Competence, Intrinsic Satisfaction Classroom Scale, and Satisfaction with Life Scale. The results are presented as descriptive statistics, correlations, and a structural equation modeling analysis showing students' perceived competence, predicted self-determined satisfaction, which in turn corresponds to life satisfaction.

Keywords: classroom satisfaction; life satisfaction; physical education; student; teacher competences.