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Background and Aim: Some personality characteristics have been associated with success orientedness and may play a role in eliciting, organizing and perpetuating behaviors which pave the way toward success. Also personality characteristics have been found to influence in tendency to and capacity of group directorship and management. Little is known about those relationships in our socio-cultural background. This study aimed to examine the relationship between personality characteristics and occupational success in the managers of a governmental organization
Method and Materials: Eighty managers were selected among senior managers of a governmental organization through simple randomization. Occupational Success Scale were administered and based on their scores on this scale, participants were then assigned to two 30-person groups of namely successful and unsuccessful managers. Cattle Personality Scale as well as Occupational Success Scale was administered to all participants
Findings: The mean age of participants was 40. Most of them had a bachelor's degree of education. No correlation was found between demographic characteristics and occupational success. Successful managers had a significantly higher mean score of self-control and non-significantly higher mean scores of warmth, emotional stability, superego strength, social assertiveness, delicacy and self-efficiency. They also had a significantly lower mean score of dependence. Both groups of managers had high mean scores of extroversion and this was non-significantly higher in successful managers. Both groups had also low mean scores of anxiety
Conclusion: Some personality characteristics like self-control and lower levels of dependency are associated with occupational success in managers. These factors can be considered in the process of managers' employment and also in their continuous education programs
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Background: Counseling and psychotherapy are essential for today life. Military staffs and their families are exposed to stresses of military environment along with their common life stressors. Therefore, their demand of counseling service is more
Materials and methods: This was a descriptive study performed on 1892 selected subjects in 2003 to recognize the demands of Sepah personnel and their family members for counseling and psychotherapy. The sampling method was double-cluster and the selected data were obtained by questionnaire and analyzed by statistical mean, percentage and Chi-Square tests
Results: Results revealed that counselors and psychotherapies are secondary source for counseling life problems and the major life problems of subjects in order were as follow: family relationship, parenting or child rearing and psychological problems. Most subjects asked for establishment of counseling centers to be accessible and application of specialized counselors
Conclusions: The counseling services in military organization have to be adjusted with clients' neediness