Personality of university teachers according to the Defense Mechanism Technique modified (DMTm) as related to their assessment of their university asan organizational setting

The present study considers possible relations between personality and orga nizational-assessment variables. Subjects in a stratified sample of 114 uni versity teachers, 36 women and 78 men, were examined using the Defense Mech anism Technique modified (DMTm), a percept-genetic technique. They also mad e assessments of their university as an organization. Two data sets were fo rmed initially, the one consisting of 18 DMTm variables and the other of th ese variables together with gender. In total, 34 factor analyses were perfo rmed, each involving the inclusion, together with the data set in question, of a different one of the 17 organizational variables which were employed. Affect anxiety (DMTm) was found in factors together with ratings of the or ganizational variables of openness/diversity, developmental orientation, pl anning/clarity, workload pressure (negative sign), personal attitude toward the superior, change-centeredness of the superior and organizational clima te. Identity anxiety (DMTm) was found in a factor together with organizatio nal climate (negative sign); repression 3 (DMTm) in a factor together with academic values, human orientation and formalization/centralization (negati ve sign); projected introaggression (DMTm) in a factor together with employ ee-centeredness of the superior (negative sign); and denial through reversa l III (DMTm) in a factor together with structural orientation, formalizatio n/centralization and sufficiency of resources (negative sign). The results were found to be interpretable in terms of the Andersson model of the mind and to support the usefulness of the type of data treatment employed.