SCREENING OF PERSONALITY TRAITS AND COGNITIVE SCHEMAS OF TEACHERS IN MURES COUNTY

Education should open new horizons for the human existence, and help the harmonious development of personality. The teacher has a crucial role in their pupils' personality development. The teacher that assumes responsibility for the healthy development of students` personality should have a balanced personality with healthy, adaptive cognitive schemas. The maladaptive cognitive schemas of the teaching staff from the pre-university education can have a negative influence on the educational process, because it affects communication and interaction between teachers and pupils. The current study aims to investigate the connection between the personality and the cognitive schemas among the pre-university teachers, as well as to create a personality profile of the teachers in Mures County. The study was conducted on 200 teachers in Mures County. The research used two questionnaires: ZKPQ (Zuckerman-Kuhlman Personality Questionnaire) (Zuckerman, 2002) and Young Schema Questionnaire short form (YSQ-S3). The results show that teachers in Mures County have a personality profile dominated by extraversion, the sociability factor and thrill seeking with the need for increased activity. Teachers with high impulsive thrill seeking tend to socially isolate themselves and their extraversion correlates with unrealistic and hypercritical standards. The unrealistic standards may become an obstacle for the differential education, focused on pupils, an education that established personalized standards, according to the needs of each and every pupil. Hypercriticism blocks pupils` development and their motivation for learning. (c) 2018 Published by Future Academy www.FutureAcademy.org.UK