Relationship between leadership styles and personality traits among woman physical education teachers

Leadership is an important concept in the study of groups since it has to occur, usually in order for groups to become more effective. The leader plays an active p art in development and maintenance of role structur e and goal direction and influences the existence and efficien cy of the group. Thus, the aim of this study was to evaluate the relationship between leadership styles and personal ity traits among woman physical education teachers in Isfahan city. For this purpose, we selected 185 woman physi cal education teachers from Isfahan city that their ages ranged from 24-37 years-old. To data collection, all subje cts filled in the Multifactor Leadership Questionna ire and the NEO Personality Inventory Revised (NEO-PI-R). Resul ts showed that the positive correlation between ove rall leadership styles and personality traits was signif icant at the level of P<0.001. Furthermore, the cor relation between leadership styles sub-scales such as transactional leadership, transformational leadership and passive/avoidant leadership and personality traits was significant at the level of P<0.001. Based on t hese results we concluded that the personality traits play an impor tant role in influencing, persuading and mobilizing others and are argued to be important for leadership styles.