An Investigation of Educational Leader ’ s Personality Style Inventory in K12 and Higher Education Levels

— This research investigates the utilization of the Personality Style Inventory within educational leadership, examining its application among two distinct tiers of leaders: K-12 and higher education, encompassing American and Chinese educational contexts. By analyzing and contrasting personality types across these diverse leadership levels, the study uncovers variances in personal characteristics among leaders. Furthermore, it aims to elucidate how the implementation of the Personality Style Inventory can enhance and inform leadership practices within these educational domains.

From my personal understanding about this Deputy Dean's personality, he is a knowledgeable man forever on the road of pursuing the truth and knowledge, which is a good quality to be the Dean of a college, and whose knowledge would also be very important to guide the whole college to develop into a higher level.Thinking dimension would help to make judgments about life, people, occurrences, and things based on logic, analysis, and evidence, avoiding the irrationality of making decisions based on feelings and values.He is also a judger, who is decisive, firm, and sure, setting goals and sticking to them, wanting to close books, make decisions, and get on to the next project.

IV. CONCLUSION
The Personality Style Inventory suggests that all individuals are not the same, but also have traits in This investigation, utilizing the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) (2014), and drawing insights from various studies (Yan & Sun, 2022; Yan et al., 2020; Zheng et al., 2018a; Zheng et al., 2019), offers fresh insights into understanding the disparities among individuals in their decision-making processes, interpersonal interactions, problem-solving approaches, worldview, and personality types.The study administered the Personality Style Inventory (PSI) to two distinct groups of educational administrators: the K-12 group and the higher education group.The K-12 cohort involved an American Superintendent, a Chinese middle school Principal, and a Chinese elementary school Principal.Meanwhile, the higher education group consisted of a Deputy Dean of the College of International Studies, an English department head, a director of Teaching Affairs Office, and an Associate Professor in the English department (Yan et al., 2018; Yan & Howard, 2019; Yan et al., 2023).This diverse array of participants allowed for a comprehensive comparative analysis of personality types across different levels of educational leadership.Notably, participants eagerly engaged in the assessment, expressing curiosity about their own personality types and their potential implications for enhancing their leadership practices (Yan & Nie, 2018; Zheng et al., 2018b; Ding & Yan, 2023 well informed and enjoy adding to their fund of knowledge.May sometimes be more positive and confident than their experience in an area warrants.The Deputy Dean unveiled a close balance with the Introversion and Extroversion dimensions, as well as the Thinking and Sensing dimensions.It suggested that the Deputy Dean could easily vacillate from one personality type to the next.It would be easy for one to deduce that the Deputy Dean would not experience much difficulty when having to shift from one leadership style to the next.
common.Comparing the two groups, the K12 group leadership tends to center around the PSI style ISTJ or ESTJ.While, the higher education group leadership tends to have more intuition and feeling dimensions than the K12 group.Partially because of the leaders in the College of International Studies are all initially humanity academic scholars, therefore, they tend to pay keen attention to the inner feelings of human being and like to try new and creative ways to solve problems.While the Superintendent, the two principals, and the Director of Teaching affair office tend to make decisions based on facts and logic, and stick to them till the end.The Personality Style Inventory is an instrument that really allows us to be introspective about and clear about his or her personality traits and how those traits help to interact with others.ACKNOWLEDGEMENT Thanks for the supports from the National Science Foundation, US (Grant No. NSF2029907 and NSF2306341), partly supported by Jiangsu Social Science Fund (Grant No. 20YYD004), Industry-university cooperation collaborative education project of the Ministry of Education (Grant No. 220506281054944), and the major fund project of "Building a high-quality Foreign Language Education" in Jiangsu universities (Grant No.

2.3 Elementary School Principal's Personality Style Inventory
Reviewing the above three leaders' PSI, they are quite similar in that they all possess three prominent dimensions: sensing, thinking and judging.The Middle School Principal only has a little strength in his extroversion dimension.Except for that trivial difference, the three school leaders can be seen as owing the same kind of PSI style.The superintendent and elementary Principal have the same introversion dimension, which indicates that they tend to make decisions, somewhat independently of constraints and prodding from the situation, culture, people, or things around them, quiet, diligent at working alone, and socially reserved.They may dislike being interrupted while working and may tend to forget names and faces.In detailed analysis of scores, the Superintendent's Judging dimension is the highest one.While the Middle School Principal and Elementary School Principal's Thinking dimension are both extremely high.It can be explained that the superintendent should make more decisions the other two principals and he is decisive, firm and sure, setting goals and sticking to them.He makes judgments about life, people, occurrences, and things based on logic, analysis, and evidence, avoiding the irrationality of making decisions based on feelings and values, more interested in logic, analysis, and verifiable conclusions than in empathy, values and personal warmth.Superintendent as an introvert, a sensor, and a thinker.In the higher education level, the researcher totally investigated four personnel: a Deputy Dean of College of IJELS-2023, 8(6), (ISSN: 2456-7620) (Int.J of Eng.Lit. and Soc.Sci.) https://dx.doi.org/10.22161/ijels.86.40 264 International Studies' Personality Style Inventory as ENTJ, which indicates hearty, frank, able in studies, leaders in activities.Usually good in anything that requires reasoning and intelligent talk, such as public speaking.Are usually

Department's Personality Style Inventory
The score of Head of English Department is high in perceiving and intuition dimension, revealing that his ability is more connected with implement some decision made by the Dean of college, and he can get along well with others in the English department and he can see possibilities and work out new ideas as well as solve novel problems, which would make him to be a best assistant to the Dean.The Head of English Department's ability to relate to organizational members on a more emotional basis makes way for receptive conditions for new decisions and policy implementation.

3.3 Director of Teaching Affairs Office's Personality Style Inventory
which indicates practical, realistic, matter-of-fact, with a natural head for business or mechanics.Not interested in subjects they see no use for, but can apply themselves when necessary.Like to organize and run activities.May Yan and Li An Investigation of Educational Leader's Personality Style Inventory in K12 and Higher Education Levels IJELS-2023, 8(6), (ISSN: 2456-7620) (Int.J of Eng.Lit. and Soc.Sci.) https://dx.doi.org/10.22161/ijels.86.40 265