• Zahra Torabi Ardakani

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• Linda Samadi

  Author

This paper investigates the relationship between introverted EFL teachers and their job satisfaction. To
this end 50 EFL teachers (20 males and 30 female) was selected as an intact group of teachers. Two
instruments were utilized to collect data, 100 Items-Minnesota Satisfaction Questionnaire (MSQ) and 20
Item-Big Five Factor Markers Questionnaire (BFFM). Data analysis procedure was done via Statistical
Package for Social Science (SPSS) version 21. In order to analyze the data, the Pearson correlation
coefficient was used. It was found out that there was a negative relationship between EFL teachers who
were introverted and their job satisfaction. As recommendation EFL teachers who are introverted have
low level of job satisfaction and the process of teaching can be influenced by them. So, pedagogical
society needs to identify factors that affect job satisfaction among EFL teachers, identify EFL teachers
according to being extrovert and introvert and pick up their shortcoming as an introverted teacher and
also create new strategies according to pros and cons of being as extroversion, and introversion from
government and pedagogical community.

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