“A Study on the Relationship between Person...

“A Study on the Relationship between Personality Traits and Students Academic Achievements of Bharathiar University, Coimbatore”

Author Name : Dr. K. Pavithra

ABSTRACT

Improving the quality of education and investment on educational and human resources are regarded as effective factors paving the way for a country’s pervasive development. Hence, improvement of students’ academic achievement is also among the basic goals of educational planning. It’s through academic achievement students can fully actualize their talents and capabilities in line with educational goals. In fact, academic achievement is considered as one important criteria of educational quality. On the other hand, learners are different across a vast range of variables. In other words, not only are they different in terms of personal characteristics, family backgrounds, age and gender, etc., they also exhibit different attitudes and emotional responses to the environment. Students have distinctive personality characteristics which makes them prepared for having different worldviews, and thus for behaving differently in various social and educational settings. Taking these differences into account can help educators recognize their students’ individual differences. Predictors of academic achievement often lay on a continuum with cognitive measures, intelligence and mental abilities at one extreme and non-cognitive variables at the other one. Although results of studies trying to predict academic achievement have yielded different results, they have consistently pointed out the role of cognitive abilities and personality characteristics in academic achievement. The continuity of the effect of childhood personality on achievement criteria is worthy of attention because school adjustment and academic performance are believed to have cumulative effects in the course of time. The big five personality characteristics are Neuroticism, Extroversion, Openness to experience, Conscientiousness and Agreeableness. Some studies have shown that academic achievement is strongly correlated with various measures of individual personality traits. The findings of this study provides some suggestive results that indicate how the significance of different big five traits might vary in different cultural, educational environments and in the academic achievement of the students.

Keyword: Personality, Personality Traits, Academic achievement