Relationship Between Personality And Academic Performance

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The relationship between personality and academic performance has been strongly identified in research that also suggests motivation, gender and different learning styles too have an effect on academic performance and are influenced by personality traits. Personality is not only related to academic performance but it is deemed a more valid predictor of academic performance than a student’s academic motivation (De Feyter, Caers, Vigna, & Berings, 2012). The five factor model (FFM) introduced by McCrae and Costa has been known to be a better predictor of course grades than general intelligence (Lounsbury, Sundstrom, Loveland, & Gibson, 2003) to the extent that it has been suggested personality be considered on admission to university (Nguyen, Allen, & Fraccastoro, 2005). The model consists of conscientiousness, openness to experience, agreeableness, extraversion and neuroticism. It is deemed a successful descriptor of personalities (McCrae & Costa, 2013) especially in the context of high school and university students as it gives structure to their exhibited traits and can determine the relationship of specific traits to their academic performance. The FFM is used to explain the different traits of five personalities and will be used to explain how they correlate positively or negatively with academic performance, motivation, gender and lastly different learning styles. CONSCIENTIOUSNESS Of the five personality traits discussed in the FFM, conscientiousness appears most
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