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DECISIVENESS PERCEIVED BY CERTIFIED STAFF AND THE PERSONALITY TYPE OF SECONDARY SCHOOL PRINCIPALS
Abstract
The purpose of this study was to determine the relationship between secondary school principals' self-reported personality types and their degree of decisiveness as perceived by their teachers. The population from which the sample of this study was drawn consisted of all Nebraska secondary school principals with at least three years of experience in their current position and who supervised fifteen or more teachers with a minimum of three years of experience in that school district. Two instruments were used for the collection of data for this study. The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator, Form G, was used to collect data regarding the personality type preference strengths of secondary school principals. A random sample of teachers completed an instrument in which they rated their respective secondary school principal's degree of decisiveness. The major findings of this study were: (1) Principals typed Extraversion were more decisive than principals typed Introversion. (2) Decisiveness was positively correlated with Extraversion, Sensing, Intuition, Thinking, Judging, and Perception personality types. The degree of decisiveness increased as the personality type preference strength score increased. (3) Decisiveness was negatively correlated with Introversion and Feeling personality types, and the degree of decisiveness decreased as the personality type preference strength score increased. (4) Thinking and Judging were identified as significant predictors of decisiveness for this population of principals. (5) There was no significant difference in the distribution of personality type preferences of secondary school principals when the mean decisiveness scores of all sampled principals were divided into high, moderate, and low categories of decisiveness. Decisiveness of secondary school principals with particular personality types can be perceived by teachers. The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator can identify personality types which can be analyzed in relation to behaviors, traits, and characteristics of individuals.
Subject Area
School administration
Recommended Citation
BRANDT, ROBERT EUGENE, "DECISIVENESS PERCEIVED BY CERTIFIED STAFF AND THE PERSONALITY TYPE OF SECONDARY SCHOOL PRINCIPALS" (1983). ETD collection for University of Nebraska-Lincoln. AAI8404822.
https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/dissertations/AAI8404822