To Explore the Personality Factors of School Teachers

To find out the personality pattern of the teachers the “Big Five Inventory (BFI)” was administered on a stratified random sample comprising of 363 male and 234 female teachers selected from 30 schools of West Bengal, India. From the result it is observed that on an average the teachers were somewhat open, they might tend to be daydreamer and might not be down to earth; again they were somewhat conscientious, they might tend to follow rules and prefer clean homes, and might not be messy and cheat to others; the teachers were not so introvert or extrovert, they might tend neither to be very social not might prefer to work on their own projects alone; the teachers were somewhat agreeable, they might tend to typically polite and like people, and might not tend to “tell it like it is”; and the teachers were emotionally much stable and might have good mental health.