Determination of the correlation between personality types and life satisfaction levels of academicians at the Istanbul Gelişim University

Abstract

The present study aims to determine the relationship between personality types and life satisfactions levels of academicians from the İstanbul Gelişim University. Whereas the universe of the study is consisted of all academicians employed by the İstanbul Gelişim University, sampling of study is consisted of 55 volunteer academicians. As data collection tool in the study, the Life Satisfaction Scale and the Reviewed Eysenck Personality Questionnaire’s Brief Form were utilized. Collected data was analyzed by the SPSS 20 package software. Whereas “Kolmogorov-Smirnov” test was conducted to analyze data in terms of normal distribution; ''Anova-Homogenety of Variances” test was conducted to evaluate their homogeneity. Hence, it was determined that collected data exhibit homogeny and normal distribution. Afterwards of this initial analysis, it was decided that parametric test method was necessary in statistical analysis of the collected data. In this process, descriptive statistic and Pearson correlation analysis were conducted. At the end of the study, a positive significant correlation was determined between extroversion personality type and their life satisfaction levels of academicians.