چکیده (انگلیسی):

Physical education discipline in many countries of the world, in comparison with other academic topics, is considered as possessing lower credibility, and physical education teachers are sometimes seen by some individuals as people with an entertaining and trivial job. This study was conducted with the aim of investigating the occupational prestige of physical education teachers compared with other jobs. The study’s statistical sample consisted of 235 physical education teachers in the Hamadan Province. A realized questionnaire was employed to gather data, and the Kolmogorov-Smirnov test was used to determine normality of data distribution, and the independent-t test and the one-way ANOVA was employed to test the hypotheses. The study results showed significant difference between the mean credibility of the jobs being considered (physician, teacher, cab driver, salesman, sandwich maker, barber, physical education teacher, and governmental clerk) in the study sample with that of the population. According to respondents, job-owners such as salesmen, barbers, sandwich makers, and cab drivers had higher occupational prestige compared with physical education teachers. Finally, physical education teachers believed that they deserved higher occupational prestige. They were of the belief that physical educationteachers’ job credibility was being considered as lower than some other occupations, and they did not enjoy a social prestige and credibility equal with that of the teachers of other subjects.