The Relationship Between Personality Types and Teaching Styles of Turkish Teachers

The aim of this study is to reveal the relationship between personality types and teaching styles of Turkish teachers and to examine these characteristics according to gender, age and years of service variables. The study group of the research, which was conducted according to the relational survey model, one of the quantitative research methods, consisted of 105 Turkish teachers working in various provinces in Turkey. “Grasha-Reichmann Teaching Style Scale” developed by Grasha (1994) and “Five Factor Personality Scale” developed by John et al. (1991) were used in the study. Data were collected through Google Form. Due to skewed distribution, the Mann-Whitney U test was used in the analysis of the gender variable, and the Kruskal Wallis H Test was used in the analysis of the age and seniority variables. In addition, the relationship between teaching styles and personality types was examined with Spearman's rho. According to the findings, knowledge transmitter teaching style was found to be medium while authoritarian, personal, guide and counselor teaching styles were found to be high. In addition, teachers' extraversion, agreeableness, self-discipline and openness to development personality types show positive personality values, while neuroticism personality type has a negative personality value. While significant differences were found in personality types and teaching styles according to gender variable, significant differences were not found according to age and seniority variables. While there was no significant relationship between neuroticism personality type and all teaching styles, a positive and significant relationship was found between other personality types and teaching styles.