IJSRP, Volume 3, Issue 9, September 2013 Edition [ISSN 2250-3153]
Selmi Hamza, Souhail Hermassi, Walid Selmi
Abstract:
The aim of this study was to compare the psychological personality profiles of experienced and novice Tunisian physical education (PE) teachers. Recorded results allow to identify a psychological personality profile of PE teachers (experienced and novice). Analyses of variance demonstrate that a non-significant difference emerge on four parameters like the extraversion, consciousness, neuroticism and openness. This study shows that experienced teachers intervention practices fit precisely to the physical and human data from their environment. While PE teacher novices through a period of significant transition to the professional level, they are also facing similar realities personal level: they live in the so-called "reality shock". The psychological personality profile of Tunisian PE experienced teachers is different from that of PE novice’s teachers. The Extraversion, consciousness or control, neuroticism and openness were the psychological variables that make the difference between the psychological profile of experienced teachers and novices.