Wellness of physical education teacher of southern region of Brazil according to the life cycles

Abstract

The aim of the study was to evaluate association between the life cycles and the social-environmental (work satisfaction) and individual (lifestyle) parameters of Wellness in Physical Education Teacher from the public teaching southern region of Brazil. In the investigation, 1645 teachers answered a social-demographic and professional questionnaire, as well as the QVT-PEF and PEVI tools. The chi-square, likelihood ratio and multinomial logistic regression, in the original form and in two adjusted models, were used for evaluating the associations. The results demonstrated that the use of moderating variables in the adjusted analyses of work satisfaction construct helped in understanding the teachers's perceptions changes across the life. Contrary situation was demonstrated in lifestyle evaluation, which revealed that the original model analysis was the principal manner of observing significant differences in most of the components and in the general computation.