The relationship between personality characteristics and mental health on work performance of primary school principals district one in Zahedan

This research conducted with the aim to examine relationship between personality characteristics and mental health on work performance of primary school administrator’s district one in Zahedan. Research method is descriptive - correlative. The study sample included all principals and teachers in the 91-92 school years in the primary schools are working in a city of Zahedan. Numbers of principals were 81 persons, 41 were male and 40 of them were women. The sampling method of principals is a classbased sampling according to the class, gender, and number of principals of statistical volume 81 persons of principals, 50 people as sample principals chose and studied. Research tools including questionnaires Five-Factor NEO personality traits and mental health questionnaire Form 28-point GHQ and Likert job performance 45 questions questionnaire. Data were analyzed using SPSS software version 17. Pearson correlation coefficients calculated and the linear multivariate regression analysis conducted. The findings showed that between five personality factors and job performance of male principals in primary schools in district one of Zahedan, there is a significant and inverse relationship. However, in female principals only between the job performance with extraversion, emotional stability factor, relationship is not meaningful. However, between the jobs performance of women principals and conscience, the adaptability and flexibility of experience, there is a significant positive relationship. Between mental health and job performance of male primary school principals in district one in Zahedan, there is a significant positive relationship. However, between mental health and job performance of female primary school principals in Zahedan district one, no significant relationship was found. In connection with the influence of personality characteristics, on male and female principals’ performance only conscience characteristics could predict job performance and it has the most prediction for job performance of male and female principals. The results also showed that the characteristics of male mental health principals, only depression was able to forecast job performance. Among female principals’ mental health characteristics, as described in theabove table, in the first step anxiety characteristics and the second step social disorder can have most prediction from the job performance for women principals.

کلیدواژه ها:

job performance ، mental health ، personality characteristics ، primary principals