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Abstract
To assess the different personality dimensions of Alexandria University faculty members and the possible traits resulting from the interaction of these dimensions. The work aims as well at in Rstigating some of the teaching stressors to which they are expo sed, some manifestations of stress among them and the possible re lations between these manifestations and their personality dimen sions.1- Identification of different personal, familial and occupational situations of the faculty members. 2- Assessment of some behavioral, physical and psychological mani festations of stress as well as some psychosomatic diseases among the faculty members. 3- Measurement of job satisfaction among the teaching staff members to clarify their attitudes towards the different components of the teaching profession. 4- Psychological screening to identify the different personality dimensions among the faculty members. 5- Suggesting a program for mental health care of the faculty mem bers. The study included a stratified random sample of Alexandria Uni lersity faculty members in 12 colleges and high institutes within five academic ranks. The studied sample included (778) faculty members, (J97) members were of the teaching staff (professors, assistant pro fessors and lecturers )and the rest were assistants of teaching staff (assistant lecturers and demonstrators). The standardized arabic translation of Eysenck Personality In~ re~ooy (E.P.I.) was used as a psychological tool to assess neuroti cism and extraversion-introversion dimensions as well as the lie scale. A questionnaire was constructed to identify the following: 1- Personal, familial and occupational situations of the faculty members as age, sex, marital status, original residence, occupa tion of the partner, number of children, name of the college, academic rank, number of students /lecture and section and number of working hours /week. 2- Manifestations of stress: behavioral manifestations as cigarette smoking, excessive tea and coffee consumption, and use of tranquilizers. - physical manifestations as easy fatiguability,dizziness, back ache, headache, leg cramps, loss of appetite, shortness of breath, difficulty in getting to sleep, racing heart and cold sensation. psychological manifestations as tense feeling, nervousness and job diseatisfaction. The Job Descriptive Index (J.D.I.) was used to measure job satisfaction of the teaching staff members as regards five job facets; teaching, pay, supervision, promotions and students. - psychosomatic diseases as peptic ulcer, colitis, heart attacks, bronchial asthma, arthritis and hypertension. Results: - About 15of the total sample faculty members had high (N) scores. Females rated significantly higher than males on (N)scale. Also,single members rated significantly higher than married members on high (N) scale. As regards parenthood, childless married members rated higher than married members having children while,an in~ verse statistically significant relation was detected bet ween number of children and level of neuroticism. Faculty couples were insignificantly highly rated on high (N) scale. Assistants of the teaching staff were significantly highly rated on high(N) and an inverse statistically significant relation was detected between level of neuroticism and level on the academic hierarchy. Behavioral manifestations of stress as cigarette smoking, tea consumption and use of tranquilizers were significantly related to high (N) scores. / Most of the physical symptoms including easy fatiguability, dizziness, difficulty in getting to sleep, loss of appetite, backaches, racing heart and cold sensation were significan tly related to high (N) scores. Also, both:tense feeling and nervousness were significantly related to high (N) scor~s. Faculty complainers of peptic ulcer, colitis and hyperten sion rated significantly higher than non-complainers on high (N) scale. The level of satisfaction on students subscale of the teach ing staff members was significantly inversely correlated with their level of neuroticism. Faculty members of Group I Colleges were insignificantly highly rated on high (N) scale. Among Group I Colleges, the Colleges of Law, Commerce and Education were highly rated on high (N) scale where more than 20of their members had high (N) scores. Both Colleges of Law and Commerce possessed the largest number of students attending lectures and practical classes while the College of Education recorded the highest load of teaching hours/week. Among all colleges, faculty members of the College of Law were highly rated on all behavioral loanifestations of stress, while faculty members of the College of Commerce were highly rated on dizziness, shortness of breath and leg cramps. Among Group 11 Colleges, the H.I.N. possessed the highest rate of members with high (N) scores. Faculty members of the H.I.N. were highly rated on back aches, loss of appetite and cold feeling. Extraversive faculty members constituted more than one tenth of the total sample. Extraversive smokers rated significantly higher than in troversive smokers. Also extraversive complainers of nervousness were signi ficantly highly rated. Most of the physical, psychological behavioral and psycho somatic diseases were insignificantly raleted to extraver sive tendencies. Hypertension and heart attacks were insignificantly rela ted to introversive tendencies. Among sample f acul ty members, .8 members had the association of both high (N) and Low (E.I.) scores, while 13 members had the association of both high (N) and(E.I.) scores. The Recommendations of this study are: 1 Psychological screening of new recruits of faculty members for proper placement. 2 To decrease the tremendous number of students. 3 To increase the number of faculty members in colleges with work overload. 4 Mental health education of faculty members should be a part of the pre-service training programs carried out in the College of Education. 5 Construction of educational programs for staff members of various colleges and high institutes in their specialities similar to the medical education program utilized by staff members of the College of Medicine. 6 Recreational programs to buffer the occupational stressors experienced by faculty members. 7 Salaries must be considered in relation to the needs of the staff members and their standard of living. 8 Counseling and guidance units must be included in the cam pus medical health batteries to provide services for all faculty members.