The Mediating Role of Resilience in the Relationship between Personality Traits with Job Satisfaction in teachers

The aim of this study was to investigate the mediating role of resilience in the relationship between personality traits and job satisfaction in teachers in Baft city. The statistical population of this study included all teachers in Baft city, Kerman province, from which 320 teachers were selected as the sample by available sampling method. Connor and Davidson Resilience Questionnair, NEO Short Form and Minnesota Job Satisfaction Questionnaire were used to collect data. Data analysis was performed, structural equation modeling and bootstrap method to test the intermediate paths. Based on the results of the present study, the proposed research model has a good fit. The results indicate that neuroticism has a significant decreasing (inverse) relationship but openness to experience and agreement has a significant increasing (direct) relationship with job satisfaction. Resilience has a significant increase (direct) relationship with job satisfaction. Neuroticism has a significant decreasing (inverse) relationship with resilience, while extroversion-introversion and conscientiousness have a significant decreasing (direct) relationship with resilience. Neuroticism, extraversion and conscientiousness have a direct indirect relationship with resilience and a significant indirect relationship with job satisfaction through resilience. Therefore, it can be concluded that resilience has a mediating role between some personality traits with teachers 'job satisfaction and decision makers in the field of education should pay attention to the role of this variable in teachers' job satisfaction.