Influence of Eysenck’s personality traits dimensions on job performance among senior high school teachers in Ajumako Enyan Essiam District

Abstract

This study explored the influence of Eysenck’s personality dimensions on job performance among senior high school teachers in Ajumako/Enyan/Esiam District. The target population for the study consisted of all public senior high school teachers in the selected District. One hundred and ninety one (191) teachers were sampled for the study. The study adopted the use of Hans Eysenck’s short-form personality questionnaire and Teachers self-rating performance questionnaire as the main data collection instruments to obtain the study responses. The information obtained from the structured questionnaires were analysed using inferential statistical techniques such as Independent samples t-test, multiple regression and One-way analyses of variance (ANOVA) to arrive at the study results. The findings of the study indicated that there is a positive relationship between Eysenck’s personality traits dimensions and teachers’ job performance. It was also found that, there was no significant difference between most demographic variables and teachers’ job performance. Based on the results, it was recommended that School management should understand the relevance of personality traits such as, introversion, extroversion, neuroticism and psychoticism personality traits on teaching outcomes in the schools. The study again recommended to Ghana Education Service as well as Ministry of Education to take into consideration personality assessment tests during recruiting and posting of new teachers. The study again recommended to Ghana Education Service not to use gender, marital status and work experience as a means to recruit and promotes teachers.