Exploring the Relationship of the Big Five Personality Traits with Student Satisfaction with Synchronous Online Academic Learning: The Case of Covid-19-Induced Changes

Author(s):  
Alexandros G. Sahinidis ◽  
Panagiotis A. Tsaknis
2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 8-16
Author(s):  
Christina D. Patitsa ◽  
Alexandros G. Sahinidis ◽  
Panagiotis A. Tsaknis ◽  
Venetia Giannakouli

The purpose of this study is to identify the role personality plays in students’ satisfaction with synchronous online academic learning (SOAL), especially during the COVID-19 pandemic. According to the literature, overall students’ satisfaction with SOAL depends on a number of factors including the quality of SOAL, the quality of the course design, the responsiveness of the instructors, the institutional preparedness, the infrastructure available, and the fairness of the evaluation system. To fully explore the students’ satisfaction with SOAL it is important to examine another important aspect that relates to students’ personalities. For the purpose of this research, an online questionnaire was delivered to undergraduate business students of a public university in Athens during the first spring lockdown period of 2020. The findings of the study indicate that openness and conscientiousness, two of the big five personality traits, present a positive relationship with overall satisfaction with SOAL (Sahinidis & Tsaknis, 2021). They also revealed that students with higher levels of overall satisfaction with SOAL present higher levels of openness, conscientiousness, extraversion, and agreeableness but lower levels of neuroticism. This research study will make a remarkable contribution to the literature regarding the relationship between personality and students’ satisfaction with SOAL


Reflexio ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 91-114
Author(s):  
M. V. Zlobina

The paper presents the preliminary results of testing the relationship of tolerance of uncertainty, intolerance of uncertainty and interpersonal intolerance of uncertainty and personality traits on a sample of 87 people. A review of foreign studies on the relationship between these constructs is given. Revised NEO Personality Inventory [Orel, Senin, 2004] and the New Questionnaire of Tolerance of Uncertainty [Kornilova, 2010] was used in order to test the relationship between personality traits and tolerance of uncertainty, intolerance of uncertainty and interpersonal intolerance of uncertainty.


Author(s):  
Danny Osborne ◽  
Nicole Satherley ◽  
Chris G. Sibley

Research since the 1990s reveals that openness to experience—a personality trait that captures interest in novelty, creativity, unconventionalism, and open-mindedness—correlates negatively with political conservatism. This chapter summarizes this vast literature by meta-analyzing 232 unique samples (N = 575,691) that examine the relationship between the Big Five personality traits and conservatism. The results reveal that the negative relationship between openness to experience and conservatism (r = −.145) is nearly twice as big as the next strongest correlation between personality and ideology (namely, conscientiousness and conservatism; r = .076). The associations between personality traits and conservatism were, however, substantively larger in Western, educated, industrialized, rich, and democratic (WEIRD) countries than in non-WEIRD countries. The chapter concludes by reviewing recent longitudinal work demonstrating that openness to experience and conservatism are non-causally related. Collectively, the chapter shows that openness to experience is by far the strongest (negative) correlate of conservatism but that there is little evidence that this association is causal.


2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 103-112
Author(s):  
Asfa Ashraf ◽  
Kamran Ishfaq ◽  
Muhammad Umair Ashraf ◽  
Zahid Zulfiqar

The present study aimed to investigate the relationship between parenting styles (authoritarian, authoritative and permissive) and Big-five personality traits (extraversion, agreeableness, neuroticism, conscientiousness and openness) among the students of Bahauddin Zakariya University Multan, Pakistan. For this purpose, a total number of 281 students from different faculties (Natural and social sciences) were selected through systematic sampling technique and the respondents responded to parenting authority questionnaire (PAQ) by Buri (1991) and Big-five inventory (BFI) john and Srivastava (1999). Data were analyzed by using SPSS-21 version, and Pearson correlation (r=0.01) was applied to find out the relationship, direction and consistency between predictor and criterion variable. Results indicated a directly proportional relationship between parenting styles (authoritarian, authoritative & permissive) and big five personality traits.


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