A Study of Teacher’s Personality Traits Effect on Organizational Citizenship Behavior--- Taking The Public Junior High Schools in Nantou County for Example

[[abstract]]The purpose of this study was to realize teachers’ personality traits that influenced organizational citizenship behavior in public junior high schools in Nantou County. There were five main purposes in this study：(1) to investigate current condition of teachers’ personality traits and organizational citizenship behavior. (2) to analyze the difference of teachers’ demographic variables and personality traits to teachers’ organizational citizenship behavior. (3) to analyze the relationships among teachers’ personality traits and organizational citizenship behavior. (4) to analyze the main predictive factors on organizational citizenship behavior . (5) to conclude the research results and to propose some suggestions for the school and further studies as well. Questionnaire survey method was mainly used in this study. The survey instrument was “The questionnaire of junior high schools for teacher ”. The sample consisted of 377 teaching staff from public junior high schools in Nantou’ by adopting random sampling techniques. There were 328 questionnaires returned, and the percentage was 87﹪. There were 303 valid questionnaires used in statistic analysis, and the usable rate was 92%. The questionnaire data were analyzed by descriptive statistics, independent sample t-test , one way analysis of variance（ANOVA）, multivariate analysis of variance（MANOVA）, Pearson’s product-moment correlation, and stepwise multiple regression . The results of this study were found as following： 1. Teachers’ personality traits of Agreeableness, Openness to Experience, Extraversion and Conscientiousness among teachers was above average, and Neuroticism was below average. 2. Teachers’ organizational citizenship behavior was above average. 3. There were significant differences existed among demographic variables of teachers’ marital status on organizational citizenship behavior. 4. There were significant differences existed among the variables of teachers’ personality traits on organizational citizenship behavior. 5. There were correlations among teachers’ personality traits and organizational citizenship behavior. 6. Teachers’ demographic variables of marital status showed significant positive effect on organization citizenship behavior. 7. Teachers’ personality traits showed significant positive effect on organization citizenship behavior. The variables of Agreeableness, Openness to Experience, Extraversion, and Conscientiousness could significantly predict organization citizenship behavior. The variables of Conscientiousness could most significantly predict organization citizenship behavior. Finally, according to the findings, the investigator proposed several suggestions for the school and further studies.