THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN HABITUAL PHYSICAL ACTIVITY AND JOB SATISFACTION AMONG LECTURERS IN UNIVERSITY MALAYSIA SABAH

Abstract

Having a job has become one of the essential needs of all humans in the current 21st century. Without a job or career that particular individual will not be able to obtain their basic needs in their daily life. Hence by having a job or working, this individual will have the money to buy the things that they require to sustain in their life. Since having a job plays a huge role in a person’s life, a big portion of their time is being spent at their job. Thus, the satisfaction that they experience at their workplace is optimum for them to have a satisfactory life. The same situation goes to higher education teaching personals. The educational sector is mostly regarded as the backbone of a country since good leaders are born through the learning process that they encounter in their schooling life. Hence, educators must experience high job satisfaction to be able to produce high quality and excellent students who will help in the up growth of the nation. The purpose of this study is to identify the relationship between habitual physical activity towards job satisfaction that is being experienced by the lecturers of University Malaysia Sabah. The survey design was adopted using validated instruments including Baecke Questionnaire for Measurement of a Person’s Habitual Physical Activity (Beacke et al., 1982) and Job Satisfaction Survey (Spector, 1994). Thus, the results indicated that all the variables listed above do have a significant relationship with job satisfaction experienced by the lecturers.