Big Five Personality Traits and Job Involvement among Teachers

¹OKONKWO EJIKE A., ²UGWU ESTHER O. AND ³ENEASATO BENJAMIN O.

 ^1&2Department of Psychology, Faculty of the Social Sciences, Enugu State University of Science and   Technology, Enugu,                                

³Department of Political Science, Faculty of the Social Sciences, Enugu State University of Science and   Technology, Enugu

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ABSTRACT

The study investigated the big five personality traits as predictors of job involvement among teachers. One hundred and seventeen (117) teachers comprising 31 males and 86 females between 24 to 10 years were drawn from five government secondary schools in Enugu using Multi-stage sampling. John, Dondhue and Kentte (1991) 44 – item big five personality traits inventory and Lodahl and Wegner (1965) 20-item job involvement scale were administered. The study was a cross-sectional survey. Regression analysis revealed that big five personality traits jointly predicted job involvement at p<.05. The findings also revealed that extraversion, openness to experience and conscientiousness independently predicted job involvement at P <. 05 while agreeableness and neuroticism did not. It was concluded that in order to enhance the job involvement of teachers, candidates high on extraversion, openness to experience and conscientiousness should be considered during selection and placement of teachers.