Study on Correlation among Personality Traits, Job Involvement and Organizational Commitment of Security Personnel in Correctional Institutions: Using Yunlin, Chiayi and Tainan Areas as Examples

• Main Authors: Chuen-Tsai Lin, 林春在
• Other Authors: 鄧誠中
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2013
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/cu85rc

碩士 === 國立虎尾科技大學 === 經營管理研究所在職專班 === 101 === Criminal justice system consists of investigation, prosecution, judgment and correction. Correctional institutions are in charge of security and guidance of prison inmates. Security personnel, in particular, should carefully supervise prison inmates day and night in order to guarantee the execution of national penalty right. Regarding such highly stressful and dangerous work, what are personality traits of security personnel which lead to job involvement and high organizational commitment? It is worthy of further study. This study treated security personnel of security section in four correctional institutions in Yunlin, Chiayi and Tainan areas as subjects. By literature review, this study constructed basic assumptions of this study and adopts questionnaire survey, and explored the correlation among security personnel’s Big Five personality traits, job involvement and organizational commitment. The questionnaire content includes basic information of correction personnel, scale of personality traits, scale of job involvement and scale of organizational commitment. After pretest, 640 questionnaires were distributed, and 461 valid samples were retrieved, with a valid return rate of 72.03%. The data were analyzed by SPSS for descriptive statistics, t test of independent samples, One-way ANOVA, Scheffe’s Method, Pearson product-moment correlation and stepwise multiple regression. According to factor analysis and reliability test of validity evaluation, the reliability and validity are good. The main findings are shown as follows: 1.In Yunlin, Chiayi and Tainan areas, security personnel with different personal attributes have significant difference on personality traits, job involvement and organizational commitment. 2.Personality traits significantly and positively influence job involvement. Personality traits significantly and positively influence organizational commitment. Job involvement significantly and positively influences organizational commitment. 3.Except for agreeableness, Big Five personality traits can predict job involvement. Prediction of conscientiousness is the most significant. Except for agreeableness, Big Five personality traits can predict organizational commitment. Prediction of conscientiousness is the most significant. Job involvement can predict organizational commitment. Keywords: correctional institution, security personnel, Big Five personality traits, job involvement, organizational commitment