A Study On The Influence Of Personality Traits Of Special Education Teachers On Job Performance

The predictive power of personality traits to work performance for a long time has been a focus in the field of industrial organizational psychology,and has been one of the most important subjects in this domain in the 20th century. Foreign research that studied whether personality traits has predictive power to work performance began in the early 20thCentury,and tremendous transition appeared in the 1980s.There have been abundant research so far. The study of the relationship between personality traits and work performance in China started late. The study period is relatively short and the object of study is not very comprehensive.The structure of the personality traits structure includes five dimensions, including extraversion, agreeableness, conscientiousness, emotionality and openness to experience. This research mainly starts from the perspective of the work attitude, explores and verifies the influence and predictive power of special education teachers’ personality traits on work performance. And analyze the relationship between the relevant variables such as meta variables (job satisfaction, work attitude)and outcome rariables (contextual performance, task performance)and the personality traits. In the first place, the research mainly through the translation of foreign personality traits scale, work attitude questionnaire, job performance questionnaire, and combined with the conclusions of interview, concludes some specific questions about the special education teachers to determine the topic of the survey questionnaire.In the second place, pre-tests the questionnaire to modify those inappropriate projects and improve the reliability and the validity of the questionnaire.At last, the formal formed Special Education Teachers’ Personality Questionnaire, Job Satisfaction Questionnaire, Organizational Commitment Questionnaire, Task Performance Questionnaire and Contextual Performance Questionnaire have been conducted. Confirmatory factor analysis and regression analysis are used to analyze the measured results. Thus it is concluded the affect of special education teachers’ personality traits to work performance under the intermediary role of working attitude, and the affect of each dimension of special education teachers’ personality traits to each dimension of work performance.This research mainly draw the following conclusions:Special education teachers’ personality traits have five dimensions and work performance has two dimensions, distinction between each dimension has good validity. Special education teachers’ personality traits are significantly correlated with work performance. Extraversion trait and agreeableness trait have significant effects on relationship performance. Extroversion trait, openness trait and accountability trait have significant effects on task performance. Neuropathic trait has no significant correlation with work performance. The influence of special education teachers’ personality traits on work performance will change under the influence of working attitude. So that we can conclude that work attitude is intermediary variable between personality traits and work performance.