Exploring Personality, Age and Years of Teaching as Factors in the Levels of Honesty among Selected Philippine Public School Elementary Teachers

Abstract

This study was conducted to ascertain the existence of relationships between personality, age, years of teaching and the levels of honesty of selected public school elementary teachers. 41 teachers volunteered for this study. They answered the Short assessment of the Big Five and the Lying in Everyday Situations Scale Questionnaires. The findings revealed that the respondents in general appear to have neither high nor low neuroticism, neither high nor low extroversion, moderately high openness, moderately high agreeableness and moderately high conscientiousness. It was also found that they possess a moderately low score in relational lying and a very low score in antisocial lying. No significant relationships were found between the respondents’ neuroticism, extroversion, openness, agreeableness, conscientiousness and their relational lying and antisocial lying. In addition, no significant relationships were found between the respondents’ neuroticism, extroversion, openness, agreeableness, conscientiousness and their age. Moreover, no significant relationships were found between the respondents’ neuroticism, extroversion, openness, agreeableness, conscientiousness and their years of teaching. However, significant moderate positive relationships were established between the respondents’ age, years of teaching and their antisocial lying. It can therefore be inferred that for the respondents of this study, age and years of teaching influence positively their antisocial lying.