The Relationship between Big Five Personality Traits and Academic Performance in Medical Students

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.

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BIG FIVE PERSONALITY TRAITS AND TEACHING PERFORMANCE OF FACULTY OF COLLEGE OF TEACHER EDUCATION, LAGUNA STATE POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY

International Journal of Research -GRANTHAALAYAH ◽

10.29121/granthaalayah.v5.i9.2017.2209 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 5 (9) ◽

pp. 99-105

Author(s):

Victoria E. Tamban ◽

Gloria L. Banasihan

Keyword(s):

Teacher Education ◽

Academic Performance ◽

Personality Traits ◽

Big Five ◽

Significant Relationship ◽

Big Five Personality Traits ◽

Big Five Personality ◽

Teaching Performance ◽

Correlational Research ◽

Academic Year

This study aimed to determine the relationships of big five personality traits and teaching performance of faculty of College of Teacher Education, Laguna State Polytechnic University Los Baños Campus, Los Baños, and Laguna. The study was conducted at the College of Teacher Education (CTE) of Laguna State Polytechnic University-Los Baňos Campus during 1st semester of Academic Year 2015-2016 employing correlational research design. The respondents of the study were the 20 faculty of CTE consist of 2 Associate Professors, 10 Assistant Professors and 7 Instructors. A valid survey questionnaire on determining the level of big five personality traits adapted from the site of personality-testing.info, courtesy ipip.ori.org and the IPCR Evaluation are the instruments of this study. Frequency count, percentage and mean were used to describe the profile of the respondents and their teaching performance. Pearson r was used to determine the significant relationship between teachers’’ big five personality traits and their’ teaching performance. The results describe that teachers tend be about average in most of the big five personality traits except from neuroticism which shows a relatively low description. The results also revealed a weak correlation between variables such that it determined that there is no significant relationship the level of big five personality traits and the teaching performance of the respondents. Based on the conclusions the researchers suggested to have further study since it is limited only to the faculty of Teacher Education and also it is highly recommended to correlate teaching performance including students’ evaluation for their teachers and the academic performance of the students with teachers’ personality traits since the teaching performance is one of the factors that affect the students’ academic performance.

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Parenting Style as a Cognitive Factor in Developing Big-Five Personality Traits among Youth: A Study of Public University in Multan, Pakistan

Review of Education, Administration & LAW ◽

10.47067/real.v2i2.14 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 2 (2) ◽

pp. 103-112

Author(s):

Asfa Ashraf ◽

Kamran Ishfaq ◽

Muhammad Umair Ashraf ◽

Zahid Zulfiqar

Keyword(s):

Personality Traits ◽

Parenting Styles ◽

Big Five ◽

Pearson Correlation ◽

Sampling Technique ◽

Big Five Personality Traits ◽

Systematic Sampling ◽

Big Five Personality ◽

Proportional Relationship ◽

The Relationship

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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