A Comparative Study of Personality Factors and Job Satisfaction among Iranian and Indian High School Teachers

This study investigates the relationships between job satisfaction and the Big Five personality variables among the high school teachers in Tehran (Iran) and Puna (India) in 1385. Job satisfaction variables included satisfaction with work, satisfaction with pay, satisfaction with promotions, satisfaction with supervisor, satisfaction with people at work, and personality variables consisted of neuroticism, extraversion, openness, agreeableness and conscientiousness. The sample consisted of 224 teachers from Tehran and 223 teachers from Puna, teaching in the high schools, who were randomly selected. The The Neo-Five Factors Inventory (Neo-FFI) by Costa & McCrae (1992) and Job Descriptive Index (JDI) by Smith, Kendall, & Hulin (1969). The results showed that there were significant negative correlations between neuroticism and satisfaction with nature of work, satisfaction with job in general, satisfaction with pay, satisfaction with people, satisfaction with promotions, and satisfaction with supervisor among Iranian and Indian high school teachers. Also there were significant positive correlations between extraversion and satisfaction with people, satisfaction with pay, satisfaction with promotions, satisfaction with supervisor, and satisfaction with nature of work in general among Iranian and Indian high school teachers. There were significant negative correlations between openness and satisfaction with people among Iranian and Indian high school teachers. But there were significant positive correlations between openness and satisfaction with promotions and satisfaction with work in general among Iranian and Indian high school teachers. There were significant positive correlations between agreeableness and satisfaction with pay, satisfaction with promotions, satisfaction with work in general among Iranian and Indian high school teachers. Iranian teachers, compared to Indian teachers, were higher in job satisfaction, and there were different personality factors among Iranian and Indian teachers.