The purpose of this study is to explore relationship of personality with career stages in different groups of school teachers selected from different school of Kolkata, India. 160 data were obtained from the school teachers of Kolkata. Career Stage Scale developed by McCormick, & Barnett, (2008) and NEO five factor questionnaire (Costa & McCrae, 1992) had been used in this study. Findings revealed that openness to change, agreeableness and conscientiousness are significantly and positively correlated with all the career stages whereas neuroticism is negatively and significantly correlated with stocktaking and disengagement stages and extraversion is positively and significantly correlated with stabilization and disengagement stages. Stepwise regression analysis indicated that all the career stages were significantly predicted by different personality traits. This study highlighted that teachers on different career stages are often characterized as having more positive personality traits like openness to change, agreeableness and conscientiousness and lesser negative traits like neuroticism.
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