Assuming that the reform of higher education of 1980 in Colombia and the changing climate caused by the process of development has influenced the attitudes toward work of physical education faculty members in higher educational institutions, the purpose of this study was to develop a Spanish-language version of the Faculty Job Satisfaction Scale (Wood, 1976), to examine and compare faculty job satisfaction on (1) achievement, (2) growth, (3) interpersonal relations, (4) policy and administration, (5) recognition, (6) responsibility, (7) salary, (8) supervision, (9) the work itself, and (10) working conditions between physical education faculty in Colombia and Costa Rican institutions of higher education and to compare the overall level of job satisfaction/dissatisfaction with selected demographic variables of the two groups. / One hundred per cent of Costa Rican professors and 87 per cent of Colombian professors in ten of the eleven existing universities responded accurately to the faculty job satisfaction scale. The steps taken in the development of the instrument for this study, the reliability coefficients obtained in the pilot and actual studies, suggested that the Spanish version of the instrument was appropriate. / The data analysis revealed the following findings: (1) Physical education faculty members in Colombia as a group reported less satisfaction than their counterparts in Costa Rica in nine of the ten factors with the exception of the salary factor. Important differences were found in policy and administration, recognition, supervision, and the work itself factors between the two groups. One important difference, with a higher level of satisfaction being expressed by Colombian faculty members, was in relation to the salary factor. (2) Upon comparing the overall satisfaction mean of Colombian and Costa Rican professors, no important differences were found. (3) When the overall level of job satisfaction was compared with selected demographic variables of the two groups, several important differences were found in various categories of the selected variables. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 46-12, Section: A, page: 3648. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Florida State University, 1985.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:fsu.edu/oai:fsu.digital.flvc.org:fsu_75692 |
| Contributors | CALDERON-GARCIA, ALBERTO., Florida State University |
| Source Sets | Florida State University |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Text |
| Format | 190 p. |
| Rights | On campus use only. |
| Relation | Dissertation Abstracts International |
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