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 Background and Aim: Today, many families either have pets or work in animal husbandry units. It is very important to investigate the mental outcomes of animal care and also to study their keepers’ personality traits. This study aims to perform a comparative examination of owners’ mental health and character specifications or those of animal husbandry units’ personnel.

 Materials and Methods: In this descriptive study, about 500 people were selected through available sampling technique. They had contact with animals or worked in a husbandry unit in the suburbs of Tehran. After referring to the veterinary clinic of Tehran University, they were studied using a general health questionnaire and an international personality question bank. The collected data were analyzed using SPSS software as well as multivariate and follow-up tests.

Results: The results of the present study show that all general mental health sub-scales except for anxiety are different in these groups. However, no difference was observed regarding responsibility and extroversion. Meanwhile, the adaptability of dog owners was lower than that of sheep owners moreover, cattlemen were more irritable than sheep owners.

Conclusion : In sum, the mental health of pet owners of the present study is at a lower level compared to that of those in other countries. It seems that the difference is due to religious and cultural differences existing between the two.

Background and Aim: Personality testing is one of the most factors for selection of the managers. If the managers select by their personality traits and its compatibility with their jobs specifications, organizational productivity will increase. Therefore, this research is aimed to determine the managers` personality traits compatibility with managerial positions in Tehran University of Medical Sciences faculties.

Materials and Methods: This was a cross-sectional, descriptive and analytical research which induced among 34 faculties, deans and vice chancellors of Tehran University of Medical Sciences during 2012-2013. The research society was selected by census technic. For research tool, Bass, Aldrich and Valenzia personality questionnaire that consisted of 27 questions was used. The validity and reliability of the questionnaire was confirmed. The data was collected by SPSS software to prepare the descriptive findings, and for analysis of data, one sample T test and Anova method were used.

Results: All of managers of TUMS faculties presented all personality traits based on Bass questionnaire. Although, introvert specification was the most personality traits among this managers. There was significant correlation between brave personality trait with the type of the faculties managers.

Conclusion: Only half of the faculties managers presented management traits compatible with their jobs. Therefore, we suggest management personality preemployment testing should be examined before the staffing of the selected managers for administration of the faculties.