Abstract: Personality and academic self-concepts are both likely to play significant roles in influencing academic achievement. Three hundred sixty undergraduate students completed the Five Factor Inventory, Academic Self-concept Inventory and reported their grade point average. Three of the Big Five traits, conscientiousness, openness and agreeableness, were positively related with all the four measures of academic self-concept, whereas neuroticism was negatively related with all the four measures. In addition, extraversion was positively related only with non-reiterative processing. The Big Five together explained 21% of the variance in grade point average (GPA), and academic self-concept explained an additional 5%, suggesting that both personality traits and academic self-concept contribute to academic performance. Further, the relationship between three of Big Five traits namely..............
Keywords: Big Five traits, intrinsic motivation, self-efficacy, Non-reiterative processing, self-esteem, GPA
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