Relationship between big five personality factors and job satisfaction of Iran University of Medical Sciences librarians

Object: This study object was to determine the relationship between the big five personality factors and job satisfaction of librarians working in the libraries of Iran University of Medical Sciences.
Research methods was descriptive-analytic survey and data collection tools was 2 big five personality and job satisfaction questionnaires that were given to 75 librarians working in Iran University of Medical Sciences. 66 librarians had desire to respond to the questionnaires. Data was analyzed by using descriptive and inferential statistics in SPSS 23.
between big five personality factors in survived samples, empiricism and neuroticism (with 31/41 and 42/41) and conscientiousness (with 84/49) had lowest and highest averages respectively. In job satisfaction factors, work, supervisor, promotion and cooperation factors with higher than 3 scores were more than average and only payment factor of librarian were mentioned less than average. The results showed that neuroticism with work and supervisor factors, extroversion with cooperation factor, agreeableness with work factor, conscientiousness with work and promotion factors, empiricism with promotion factor had significant correlation. with growth the level of education and job history of librarians, their neuroticism increased.
Overall five personality factors could be a strong predictor for job satisfaction of medical librarians, So focus on big personality factors can be used in the selection of medical libraries and their missions.