Personality Type, Spirituality, and its Relationship with Job Satisfaction Among Male and Female Government Sector Employees
Published: 2017
Author(s) Name: Gopal Chandra Mahakud, Avinash Kumar and Tapan Kumar Nayak |
Author(s) Affiliation: Assistant Professor, Depatment of Applied Psychology, University of Delhi, Delhi
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Abstract
Personality is one of the most important psychological attributes directly influencing the level of
Job satisfaction in employees. Some of the studies (e.g. Nicodemus, 2012) affirmed the relationship
of different personality type and job satisfaction of employees. In essence, both spirituality and
personality lie at the core of human existence (Emmons, 1999). As it is clear that, job satisfaction
has very keen association with different personality types and spirituality, still very few studies
conducted to find out the relationship between spirituality and its impact on job satisfaction especially
has been in India. The present study is conducted on a sample of 100 Government employees in
Delhi NCR. The researcher used Big Five Personality Test (McCrae and Costa, 1996), The Spiritual
test (Hussain et al. (2011) and Job Satisfaction Scale (Singh and Sharma 2009). A survey method
of research design was followed for the entire study.
The results of the present study, indicate that there is a negative correlation between Extraversion
and Sense of Purpose (r=-0.300*) but there is a positive the correlation between Extraversion and
Maintenance of Discipline (r= 0.336*). The study also indicated that except the conscientiousness
of the personality, there is no significant difference between male and female participants. The study
also indicates that, there is no significant difference between spirituality and job satisfaction levels
between male and female participants. From the results of the present study, it can be concluded
that people with extraversion, openness and conscientiousness are more satisfied in their job than to
the people having neurotic personality. Further, it can be concluded that people with good maintenance
spirituality are also more satisfied in their job than to the person having poor maintenance spirituality.
Keywords: Job Satisfaction, Personality, Spirituality, Extraversion, Conscientiousness
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