A Study of Correlation between Personality Traits and Job Satisfaction of the Elementary School Teachers in Taoyuan County

• Main Authors: Kuei-Li Hsu, 徐貴裡
• Other Authors: I-Chun Liu
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2009
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/05922018157114141331

碩士 === 元智大學 === 資訊社會學研究所 === 97 === The main purpose of this study is to investigate the correlation between personality traits and job satisfaction of the elementary school teachers in Taoyuan County. The study was made to assess how teachers’ different background variables,such as gender、marriage status、age、education level、graduate from the department、teaching seniority、positions and school scale effect their feeling about personality traits and job satisfaction. The objects of this study are the department heads, section chief, homeroom teachers and full-time teachers at the public elementary schools in Taoyuan County, the research adopted questionnaire survey method. 492 copies of the questionnaire were sent out to the teachers and 473 copies were effective returned. The availability rate was 96.1﹪.The data collected from the survey was processed through Descriptive statistics,t-test,One-way ANOVA,Pearson product-moment correlation by the statistic package software of SPSS for Windows 12.0 version.The findings of the research are as follows: 1.In the personality traits examination of background variables: There is partially effect in the perception of the personality traits scale among the teachers who have different gender、marriage status、age、education level、teaching seniority 、positions. There was no effect in the perception of the teacher’s work satisfaction scale among the teachers who have different graduate from the department and school scale. 2.In the job satisfaction examination of background variables: There is partially effect in the perception of the teacher’s work satisfaction scale among the teachers who have different gender、marriage status、education level、teaching seniority 、positions and school scale. There was no effect in the perception of the teacher’s work satisfaction scale among the teachers who have different age and graduate from the department. 3.The most obvious personality trait shown among elementary school teachers is “agreeableness” and “conscientiousness”.and less of “neurotiscism”. 4.The order of average scores of the aspects of job satisfaction from high to low is as follows:work itself,work environment, principal’s leadership, further education and transfer and promotion and interpersonal relationship. Job Satisfaction of the Elementary School Teachers in Taoyuan County,the “work itself” is the most satisfied, and the “interpersonal relationships” is the least satisfied. 5.Correlations among personality and job satisfaction: The were negative correlations among neuroticism and job satisfaction. There were positive correlations among agreeableness, conscientiousness, openness, extroversion and job satisfaction. Finally,based on the results of research, the author makes several recommendations for education authorities, elementary school and future reseachers’ references. Keywords:Taoyuan Country、Elementary School、Personality Traits、Job Satisfaction