The effect of personality types on job satisfaction of industrial workers

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Bharat (UG & PG Department of Psychology, NKSPTs Arts, Science and Commerce College, Badnapur, Jalna, Maharashtra)

The aim of this research was to investigate the relationship between personality type and job satisfaction. Main objectives of study were to find out the effect of types A and type B personality pattern on Job Satisfaction of Industrial Workers. In line of objectives, there are two hypothesis was formulated, i.e., type-A personality would have positive effect on job satisfaction of industrial workers and type-B personality would have positive effect on job satisfaction of industrial workers. For testing the hypothesis, 400 indstrial workers was chosen by random sampling method. Data collected by ABBP scale, constructed by Upinder Dhar and Manisha. Regression analyses are used for data analysis. Results shows that, The Beta value for Type-A is -0.053 and associated t value is 1.13 which is not significant and we conclude that there is no effect of type-A personality on job satisfaction. The Beta value for Type-B is 0.198 and associated t value is 4.25 which is significant on 0.01 level. Researcher concluded that Type-A personality pattern is not associated with job satisfaction of industrial workers and there is no effect of personality type-A pattern on job satisfaction and Type-B personality is positively related to job satisfaction and it has greater impact on job satisfaction of industrial workers.