Abstract

These days, the entry of women in teaching professions is prominent. This study is subject to evaluate how female teachers' perception of their personality type and school constructions affects their job stress and psychological adaptation. There were total 166 participants who are teachersof secondary schools in southern Kyung-Ki area. Most participants perceive their personal type as ESFJ, while thinking that constructions of their schools are ISTJ type. There were only 16 people who had their personality type and school-construction type matched, which is 9.6% of whole population. 4.8% of the population had totally different types of perception. The study determines that people of introversion type have relatively high job stress while other psychological adaptation is not related to their level of stress. Sensing/intuition type people have no relation with job stress and psychological adaptation. People of thinking/emotion type have comparatively higher total point but show no difference in psychological adaptation. Lastly, for judgment/perception type, people have higher anxiety level. On one side, accordance of extrovert/introvert and emotion/thinking is proved to be the most influential factor in the process of adaptation. In conclusion, the study shows what these outcomes demonstrate and its limit. (Korean J Str Res 2009;17:323∼332)

• Keywords: Personality type, Type of organization, Job stress, Psychological adaptation