eng Science and Education Publishing American Journal of Educational Research 2327-6150 2017-11-16 5 10 1097 1101 10.12691/education-5-10-11 EDUCATION201751011 article Agamani Mondal 1 Birbal Saha birbalsaha@gmail.com 1 Department of Education, Sidho-Kanho-Birsha University, Purulia, WB, India The objective of the study is to investigate the effect of personality and emotional intelligence on job satisfaction. Entire secondary school teachers working under West Bengal Board of Secondary Education (WBBSE) are considered as population. The survey sample included 888 secondary school teachers. Job satisfaction scale (JSS), emotional intelligence inventory (EII), both developed and standardized by the investigators and culturally adapted big five inventory (BFI) were used to collect from samples. Result revealed that high emotional intelligent teacher possesses high level of satisfaction than that average as well as low level emotional intelligent teacher. It is also observed that conscientious and agreeable teachers are highly satisfied with their teaching job whereas neurotic teachers did not satisfied with their teaching job. http://pubs.sciepub.com/education/5/10/11/education-5-10-11.pdf job satisfaction secondary teachers emotional intelligence inventory big five personality JSS