Research On The Relationship Between The Personality And Social Acceptability For The Working Staff Of Hotels

Based on the review of precious researches, analysis of open-ended questionnaires, we raised theoretical hypotheses about the relationship between the personality characteristics and social acceptability for the working staff of hotels. Then it came up with examining of their personality characteristics with the Sixteen Personality Factor Questionnaire (16 PF). Based on the above works, we examined the social acceptability of 273 workers of all. Finally, the data were performed by using statistic method to form research on the correlation between the personality characteristics and social acceptability of working staff of hotels. The results showed as following: (1) Compared with national norms, the scores of the working staff were higher in factors liveliness, social boldness, apprehension, while lower in intellect, vigilance, openness to change, self-reliance. (2) In the introversion and extroversion factors, the introversion factor was the most significant. In addition, following factors had higher scores: liveliness, social boldness, dominance, warmth, while those factors had lower scores, such as: self-reliance, vigilance, creativity. So initial assertion can be made as following: the basic personality characteristics of the working staff of hotels in our nation were highest extroversion, higher liveliness, higher social boldness, higher warmth, high dominance, high sensitivity, low self-reliance, lower vigilance, lowest vigilance. (3) The significant difference of gender in personality showed in the following factors: warmth, dominance, social boldness, introversion and extraversion, emotional stability, apprehension and rule-consciousness. So are those secondary factors such as: feeling and serenity, professional growth and growth ability. The differences of the other classified variables were showed in some other dimensionality. (4) The social acceptability of the staff were generally at no less than the primary stage. Furthermore, there were no significant differences in gender,age,marital status, educations, work time, enterprise types, administration department with social ability.(5) The social ability of working staff of hotels was significantly positive correlated with warmth, emotional stability, dominance, liveliness, rule-consciousness, social boldness, extroversion, perfectionism mental health and specialty achievement, while significantly negative correlated with vigilance, apprehension, self-reliance, tension, openness to change, anxious and the ability of creative. (6) Extroversion, specialty achievement, self-reliance, rule-consciousness can significantly predict the social ability of working staff of hotels. All of these can account for 11.9%-17.2% of difference.