The Comparative Study of Personality Traits among Successful and Unsuccessful Principals in High Schools of Mazandaran Province

Subject Areas : Journal of Educational Psychology

Habibollah  Mashayekhi ¹ (Assistant professor. Department of education, Islamic Azad University, Tonekabon Branch, Tonekabon, Iran)
Ali  Khalkhali ² (Assistant professor. Department of education, Islamic Azad University, Tonekabon Branch, Tonekabon, Iran)
Narges  Farajollahi ³ (M.A Educational sciences, IAU, Tonekabon Branch)

Received: 2010-09-03 Accepted : 2010-12-02 Published : 2011-02-20

Keywords: Successful Managers, Unsuccessful Managers, personality traits, high school,

Abstract :

The aim of the present study was to compare the personality characteristics of successful and unsuccessful principals in high schools of Mazandaran province. The present study was conducted in a scientific-comparative type. The sampling was conducted in multistage and on the basis of purposeful and stratified random sampling methods. The final sample included 22 successful and 23 unsuccessful principals. To identify the personal qualities, the short form of NEU questionnaires was used in this study. To analyze the data, statistical methods such as T-tests, F and Shefe were applied. The results showed that there were a significant difference between the successful and unsuccessful principals in terms of characteristics such as Agreeableness, and Conscientiousness. However, the Neuroticism; Extraversion and Openness there were not any significant difference between the two groups. Also, a significant difference was shown to exist between the personality characteristics of the two samples in terms of their sex variable.