Abstract
There is a significant relationship between personality and academic achievement. It shows that personality plays an important part in student academic performance. The main purpose of this study is to explore the relationship between Big Five Personality traits and academic performance among foundation student based on their CGPA. There were 137-foundation students from private universities in Malaysia participants in this study. With 92 female and 45 males involved. Pearson correlation analysis was performing in this study. The result of this study showed that personality has a significant relationship between personality and academic performance. In details, Agreeableness, Conscientiousness, and Openness were positively significant related to CGPA, while Extraversion and Neuroticism were negatively related to the CGPA. This result supports the other findings. With this finding, the academician will have more understanding on their students. There are a number of factors that influence students’ academic achievement and one of its personality factors. Besides that, this result also can give useful information to the lecturer in order to understand student’s personality and to match their teaching styles with the student’s personality to improve the student’s performance.
Highlights
Education is one of the important elements need to be equipped by individual in this challenging world
The main purpose of this study is to explore the relationship between Big Five Personality traits and academic performance among foundation student based on their cumulative grade-point average (CGPA)
The result of this study showed that personality has a significant relationship between personality and academic performance
Summary
Education is one of the important elements need to be equipped by individual in this challenging world. One of the main problems in educational sector is culture studies and students behavioral issues. Most of the researcher is searching factor that influence academic performance. In align with the global needs of the higher education; Malaysia has a vision to become a prestige educational hub in ASEAN. Many researchers found that personality can affect the individuals’ behavior and will influence the performance. Little research applies the concept personality in foundation student’s academic performance
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