The present study was designed to investigate the differences in mental health, personality and job satisfaction among government and private university teachers. To assess mental health, mental health inventory developed by Jagdish and Srivastava was administered on the sample of 100 government and private universities teachers. Using randomized sampling total 100 government and private universities teachers were taken from Haryana State. The Big Five Inventory (BFI) by John & Srivastava (1999) and “Teachers Job Satisfaction Scale” by Yudhvirender Mudgil, Prof I. S Muhar, and Prabha Bhatia (1991) was administered on the same selected sample. t- test was applied to understand the significant impact of these three variables. The result of the study indicated that government university teachers are more satisfied as compare to private university.

Keywords: Job satisfaction, Mental health, Personality traits.

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