The Relationships Between Personality Dimensions, Personal Health Behaviors and Depressive Symptoms of Teachers

This study examines the relationships between personal health behaviors, personality traits and depressive symptoms of teachers. a sample of 433 teachers (male=239, female=194) answered a self-questionnaire including socio-demographic variables, depressive symptoms were measured by the beck depression inventory, personality traits were measured by the eysenck personality inventory and 12 personal health behaviors (smoking, alcohol consumption, daily consumption of breakfast, appropriate daily duration of sleep, appropriate daily duration of work, regular physical activity, appropriate levels of stress, healthy diet, using seat belt, using sunscreen, using mobile phone and using internet) were also assessed. logistic regression analysis revealed that inappropriate daily duration of work (or=2.95, 95%, ci=1.43-6.08), inappropriate stress management (or = 2.14, 95% ci = 1.12-4.10) not using seat belt (or=2.59, 95%, ci=1.37-4.88) not healthy diet (or=2.31, 95%, ci=1.14-2.66) and low extravertion personality scores (or=0.67, %95, ci=0.48-0.95) predicted depressive symptoms. results have important implications for prevention and treatment of teachers’ depression disorders.