Identifying Teachers' Personality Competencies and Determining the Relationship of these Competencies with Their Educational Efficiency

Subject Areas : Education

khosro rashid ¹ , parimah mohammadiyan ² , hossein mohagheghi ³ , احمد بیات ⁴

1 - Associate Professor, Department of Psychology, Mazandaran University
2 - Master of Educational Psychology. Bu-Ali Sina University, Hamadan
3 - Associate Professor, Department of Psychology, Bu-Ali Sina University, Hamadan
4 - همدان، تویسرکان، شهرک قائم، بلوک 5، کوچه والفجر 8

Received: 2021-06-14 Accepted : 2021-10-25 Published : 2021-09-23

Keywords: personality characteristics, Personality Competencies, Teachers’ Educational Efficiency,

Abstract :

Teacher's personality traits and competencies can play a role in the quality and efficiency of his / her educational performance.The purpose of this study was to identify the personality competencies of teachers and the relationship of these competencies with their educational efficiency.The research method was mixed (quantitative and qualitative) and the statistical population was educational psychologists, principals, and teachers of secondary schools in Hamadan (65 specialists, 384 principals, and 2415 teachers). In order to identify the personality competencies of teachers, 40 people were selected as the sample for the interview through the available method. Also, 13 principals and 60 teachers were selected through cluster sampling method. They answered NEO-PI (Costa &McCare, 1983) and the researcher-made questionnaires. After analyzing the content of the interviews and identifying the personality competencies, the research questionnaires were completed by the participants. Data were analyzed by Pearson correlation method using SPSS-25 software.The result of the content analysis of the interviews was the extraction of the characteristics of energeticness, tolerance, communication skills, empathy, management, eagerness for new experiences, adjustment, responsibility, and positive ethical-behavioral characteristics. Also, Pearson correlation showed that there is a positive relationship between teachers' personality competencies and their educational efficiency (P < 0.01; r = 0.54) and the component of communication skills has the highest correlation with teachers' educational efficiency (r = 0.64).The higher the characteristics of energeticness, tolerance, communication skills, empathy, management, eagerness for new experiences, adjustment, responsibility, and positive moral-behavioral characteristics in teachers, the higher their educational efficiency.

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