Abdullah Kadhim R, Mohajeran B. Analyzing the Relationship between Personality Traits and Communication Skills with Job Success and Professional Competencies and Ethical Behavior: Mediating Role of Professional Commitment. Int. J. Ethics Soc 2025; 7 (3) :66-76
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1- Ph.D. student in Educational Management, Department of Educational Sciences, Urmia University, Urmia, Iran , ragadabdullahkazem@gmail.com
2- Department of Educational Science, Urmia University, Urmia, Iran
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Introduction: The present study was conducted with the aim of analyzing the relationship between personality traits and communication skills with career success and professional qualifications and moral behavior of mathematics teachers with the mediation of professional commitment in secondary schools in Baghdad, Iraq.
Materials and Methods: The method of the present research was descriptive-correlation, its statistical population included all secondary school teachers in the number of 460 people, of which 210 people were selected using cluster random sampling method. In order to collect research data from questionnaires including Nabi's Career Success Questionnaire (2001), Molaeinezhad Teachers' Professional Competencies Questionnaire (2011), Clikeman and Henning's Professional Obligations Questionnaire (2000), NEOPI-R Personality Questionnaire, Queendom's Communication Skills (2004) and Lu and Lin's ethical behavior questionnaire (2013) was used. To check the hypotheses, correlation test and structural equations were used using Spss and smart-PLS software.
Results: The findings showed that personality traits (neuroticism, extroversion and flexibility) had a significant relationship with teachers' career success and teachers' professional qualifications and moral behavior. Also, communication skills had a significant relationship with job success, professional qualifications and ethical behavior. It was also found that professional commitment plays a significant mediating role in the relationship between research variables.
Conclusion: Undoubtedly, personality traits and communication skills can affect job and professional success and moral performance in education. In this regard, professional commitment can play a mediating role because positive personality traits and high-level communication skills can guarantee job success and ethical performance by raising the level of professional commitment.
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Special Received: 2025/03/21 | Accepted: 2025/04/20 | Published: 2025/10/19