Examining the relationships between teachers' five major personality traits, their political abilities and their organizational dissent behaviors.

This research investigated the relationship between teachers' five big personality traits, their political abilities and organizational opposition behaviors and the relationship between these three variables; It is a research structured in relational design in order to examine whether it varies according to gender, education level, professional seniority and school type. The universe of the research consists of 3670 teachers working in public primary and secondary schools in the city center of Batman in the 2022-2023 academic year. Data collection was done with the cluster sampling method, which is one of the sampling types, but since there was not enough participation, 56 primary schools and 39 secondary schools were visited and 578 questionnaires were obtained with the participation of volunteer teachers. In the research, the "Five Factor Personality Scale" adapted into Turkish by Horzum, Ayas, and Padir in order to determine the five major personality traits of teachers; Dağlı's scale, which translated the "Organizational Opposition Scale" into Turkish in order to evaluate organizational oppositional behaviors; to measure political competence levels, the "Political Competence Scale", which was adapted into Turkish by Atay, was used. According to the research findings; Teachers' perceptions of agreeableness, which is a sub-dimension of the five-factor personality trait, are the highest and the lowest perceptions of neuroticism. Vertical opposition of the five-factor personality sub-dimensions of extroversion, responsibility and openness to experience; It was determined that extraversion and responsibility sub-dimension significantly predicted social skill, one of the political competence sub-dimensions. It is seen that social network skill, one of the sub-dimensions of political competence, significantly predicts vertical and horizontal opposition. Keywords: Big Five Personality Traits, Political Ability, Organizational Opposition