The Relationship between Conscientiousness and Flourishing among Selected Philippine Government High School Teachers

This study attempted to explore the relationship between the personality trait of Conscientiousness and the multi-dimensional psychological construct of Flourishing among government-employed high school teachers of the Philippine Department of Education. 54 high school teachers from Metro Manila volunteered to take part in this study. They were asked to answer the short-form questionnaire for the assessment of the seven facets of conscientiousness, a 5-point Likert scale instrument, which consists of 4 items for each of its 7 domains of Industriousness, Caution, Control, Perfectionism, Procrastination Refrainment, Task Planning and Tidiness totaling 28 items. The respondents were also asked to answer the Flourishing questionnaire, which uses a 7-point Likert scale and has 8 items. The results revealed that the respondents’ overall responses to the conscientiousness instrument were generally positive. Moreover, with respect to flourishing, the respondents of this study yielded a result of agree, which infers that they are mostly doing well in life. Significant positive moderate relationships were found between the respondents’ Flourishing scores and their Caution and Tidiness scores. Furthermore, a significant positive moderate relationship was found between the respondents’ Flourishing scores and their age. Based on these findings, Caution, Tidiness and the respondents’ age influence their Flourishing positively.