Personality-Environment Congruence and Its Relation to Job Satisfaction Among Secondary School Teachers

The purpose of this study was to examine the personality-environment congruence and its relation to job sati faction as hypothesized in the Holland's career choice model (1985).The results of this study showed that the social type of personality was dominant in the personality profile of teachers. Personality-environment congruence existed among the teachers in 12 major teaching fields. However, the degree of congruency did not relate significantly to the level of job satisfaction. As a whole the majority of the subjects experienced moderate level of job satisfaction (72.9%). They derived satisfaction from co-workers (68.0%), and supervision (57.4%); were moderately satisfied in work (61.0%); and least satisfied with pay (34.8%), and promotions (53.3%).