Dual Undergraduate Majors of Health and Physical Education: Do They Have the Same Passion for Both Subject Areas?

Little is known about the passion of health and physical education preservice teachers. Being passionate about your content areas is crucial to effective teaching, so do dual-enrolled students have the same passion for health and physical education? This study aimed to collect and compare data on undergraduate dual majors’ passion for physical education and health education. An electronic survey was given to dual majors across the United States based on the passion scale created by Sigmundson et al. (2020). Responses from participants revealed that undergraduate dual majors have a significantly higher passion for physical education than health education. These findings show that more research needs to be done to eliminate this possible gap in passion so that students graduating from a health and physical education program are effective teachers in both content areas. Universities may want to determine if their preparatory programs are curating quality, passionate educators who are suited to teach both subject areas.