This research seeks to explore the relationship between personality traits and performance among school principals. The main objective of this research is to analyze the relationship between principals’ personality traits such as introversion, extroversion neuroticism and emotional stability between several performance dimensions. A descriptive correlation research method was employed a sample size of 50 principals and 176 teachers in elementary schools, middle schools and high schools were selected from the total population of principals and teachers in the academic year of 2008-2009 through the stratified sampling method. The Eysenck questionnaire used to assess principal's personality. Weiss K performance evolution questionnaire used to assess principals' performance. Reliability of the questionnaires determined 0.81 and 0.98 respectively. Data analyzed using Pearson correlation coefficient, multiple regression, one way- analysis of variance (ANOVA), and Tukey test. Results showed that there is a positive relationship between principal’s personality characteristics of introversion and extroversion and performance dimensions, and 35% of score variance in leadership, human relationships and organizational dimensions was explainable by extroversion and introversion scores. Also there is a negative relationship between neuroticism and emotional stability and performance dimensions, and 40% of scores variance in professional and educational dimensions was explainable by neuroticism and emotional stability of principals.

Assuring job satisfaction, over a long-term, requires managers' styles, careful planning and effort both by management and by workers. Job satisfaction is influenced by the employee's personal characteristics, the manager's personal characteristics and management style, and the nature of the work itself. The aim of this study was to determine the management styles of female managers based on the four styles of Reddin (directive, executive, benevolent autocrat and bureaucrat) and their effects on job satisfaction of teachers in girls high schools in Isfahan in the academic year of 2006-2007. The research method in this study is correlational descriptive. The participants of this study were 150 teachers in girl high schools which were randomly chosen from 2591 teachers and finally, 125 questionnaires were analyzed. The data collection tools included two researcher-made questionnaires which were about the management styles and job satisfaction, with 37 and 41 questions accordingly. The questions werewww.ccsenet.org/ies International Education Studies Vol. 4, No. 3; August 2011 Published by Canadian Center of Science and Education 125based on the Likert scale. The validity of the questionnaires was content-based validity and the reliability of the questionnaires was 0.81 and 0.92, based on the Cronbach Alpha Coefficient. To analyze the data, descriptive analysis (mean, variance, frequency distribution and percent) and inferential analysis (Hoteling t2, Pearson coefficient correlation, independent t-test, multi variance regression and Toki test) were used. The results of the study showed that only directive and executive management styles affect positively the teachers' job satisfaction. Also among the teachers there are different views about the directive style based on their gender and the level of education. In terms of executive style, there is a different view among the teachers based on their teaching experience. There was not a significant difference between the teachers' degree and the kind of high school. Among the demographic factors, only the Kind of high school (governmental or non-profit) was effective on the job satisfaction, which the teachers in the non-profit high schools were more satisfied.

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Introduction: It seems that friendly relationships with the opposite sex among boys and girls have meanings, dimensions, effects, and different outcomes. This article aims to investigate the gender of this phenomenon with emphasis on perceptions and motives, consequences, and modeling. This phenomenon among boys and girls is studied on the students of Kharazmi University. Method: The research approach of present study was qualitative, and research method was based on phenomenology. The participants of the study consisted of two groups of male and female students at B.A. and M.A. levels from Kharazmi University. By applying a purposeful sampling method and snowballing strategy, a deep semi-structured interview was conducted with 15 female students and 15 male students, having theoretical saturation criterion in mind for reaching a sample size. Findings: Male and female students have different experiences and understanding of relationship with the opposite sex, and they enter the relationship with distinct motivations. The most noted characteristics in female students include displaying false self and immersion in romance. In male students, these characteristics include instability, and non-commitment in relationship, lack of real representation, preparation for instability of relationships, and awareness of the relations of absurdity. Discussion: The findings show that girls are more likely to seek emotional and long-term relationships and marriage, on the other hand, the male students are more after pleasurable and sexual relationships. Expended AbstractIntroduction :The friendship of college students with the opposite sex and its increasing growth at the level of the universities of the country has now emerged as a transpersonal phenomenon and has found a family and societal dimensions. It seems that friendly relationships with the opposite sex among boys and girls have different meanings, dimensions, effects, and outcomes. Girls and boys have relationships with one another with different motives -making choice for proper marriage, curiosity and other cognition, and temporary friendships that can be merely an emotional relationship or for meeting the sexual needs. Huge difference between social, religious and family norms with the values and attitudes of the modern world and the everyday experiences of young people have resulted in contradiction among them. On the one hand, instinctive pressures and tensions tend to turn young people toward the opposite sex, and on the other hand, sociocultural and moral considerations have acted as obstacles. This contradictory situation has always been a complicated issue for adolescents and young people, as well as families and authorities, and has created an uncertain status in terms of how to deal with this issue. Since the family is the first small community that a person experiences, his influence and support, up to the age of 15, and more during childhood, are direct and intense. In adolescents and young people who enter environments such as high school and university, t...