Abstract

This study investigated the impact of job involvement and personality on psychological wellbeing of teachers in Owerri Imo State. Two hundred participants were selected for the purpose of this study using convenient sampling technique. The participants were One hundred and fifteen females and eighty-five male teachers in Owerri. The participants age range is 30 to 60 with a mean age of 34.60 six hypotheses were postulated and tested. Three instruments were used in the study; BFI 44 Personality Questionnaire, Job Involvement Questionnaire by Lodahl and Kejner (1965), and Psychological Wellbeing Scale by Holden, Mehta, Cunningham, and McLeod (2001). A cross sectional survey design was adopted; a Multiple Regression Analysis was used in analysing the data. Results showed that as job involvement scores increases, psychological wellbeing scores decreases indicating that high job involvement results to low psychological wellbeing; furthermore, results also showed that none of the Big Five dimensions predicted psychological wellbeing of teachers.