Effect of Personality on Professional Competency among the Life Science Teachers in West Bengal

Abstract

The study is a comparative study and tries to measure the professional competency among the life science teachers of secondary schools in relation to gender, strata, and academic qualification. This study also finds out the relationship between the professional competency and few dimensions of personality among the teachers. Six personality dimensions are selected for these studies which are activity-passivity, suspicious-trusting, and emotional instability, emotional stability, enthusiastic-non-enthusiastic, assertive-submissive, and depressive-non-depressive.  200 life science teachers are taken as sample from the government aided schools. Self made professional competency scale and Dimensional Personality Inventory (DPI) of Bhargava (2000) are used for data collection. The study finds out that professional competency of the life science teachers differ significantly in relation to gender but does not differ in relation to strata and academic qualification of the teachers. The study also finds that there is a positive correlation between professional competency and few dimensions of personality. This study helps to understand how personality affects professional competency and helps educational administrator to take decision with respect to teaching learning process.