A Study on the Correlation between Personality Traits and Job Involvement of High School Teachers in Taichung County and Taichung City

• Main Authors: Der-Hua Hung, 洪德華
• Other Authors: Gwo-Jen Lin
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2010
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/08059215082479190054

碩士 === 國立彰化師範大學 === 教育研究所 === 98 === The main purpose of this study was to explore the relationship between the high school teachers’ personality traits and job involvement. A total of 513 teachers were sampled as research subjects from high schools in Taichung county and Taichung city. First, this study discussed the differences among the high school teachers’ personality traits and job involvement with different backgrounds. Then, the relationship between the high school teachers’ personality traits and job involvement was analyzed. Finally, the predictability of the teachers’ personality traits for teachers’ job involvement was analyzed. The data was collected by a questionnaire survey. The instrument of this study was “Questionnaire of the Investigation between High School Teachers’ Personality Traits and Job Involvement”. After questionnaires were collected, descriptive statistics, t-test, one-way ANOVA, Pearson’s product-moment correlation, and multiple stepwise regression analysis were used to analyze the research data. Conclusions of this study are as follows: 1. The present Taichung county and Taichung city high schools teachers present “conscientiousness” in the personality traits to be highest, next in order are “openness”, “agreeableness”, “neuroticism” , and “extraversion”. 2. The high school teachers’ perceptions of job involvement were above average. 3. There were significant differences among teachers’ gender, job position, years-of-teaching, educational level and quality of school in terms of teachers’ personality traits. 4. There were significant differences among teachers’ ages, job position, years-of-teaching in terms of job involvement. 5. There were significant correlations between the teachers’ personality traits and job involvement. 6. The teachers’ personality traits were significant predicators for the teachers’ job involvement. Finally, some suggestions for educational administrative systems, high school principals, administrative staff, and future researches were proposed according to the results of this study.