Author(s): Charak Singh Ajay, Choudhary Payal and Daljeet Singh

Abstract:
Personality is the way an individual affect others, it is defined as the combination of characteristics, qualities that form an individual distinctive character. Whereas, personality traits are distinguish qualities or characteristics that represents habitual pattern of behavior, temperament and emotion. The teacher personality is essential in conducting instructional activities. To become an efficient and effective teacher in any discipline one must possess the personality traits essential for good quality education. The purpose of the present study was to compare personality trails/variables (psychological traits/variables) i.e. Extroversion, Agreeableness, Conscientious, Neuroticism, Openness are of physical education teachers and other subject teacher of Jammu city. 80 teachers were selected from the secondary school of Jammu city by using purposive sampling, among which 40 were physical education teacher and 40 were other subject teachers. After selecting 80 secondary school teachers as the subject of the study, the data were collected through questionnaire of Big Five Personality Inventory developed by Dr. Tom Buchana. After collecting data of personality taits/variables was analyzed using SPSS and compare by using ‘t-test’. Results shows calculated ‘t’ value for the Extraversion was 0.255, Agreeableness 0.495, Conscientiousness 0.152, Nerurotism 0.099 and for Openness 0.569. All the calculated values for respective personality variable were not found statistically significant at 0.05 level (p=0.001). From the above study it can be found that there are no significant differences between physical education teacher and other subject teacher in personality traits/variables i.e. Extroversion, Agreeableness, Conscientious, Neuroticism, and Openness.

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