PERSONALITY TRAITS AND ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT OF UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS

Abstract

The study's main objective was to examine undergraduate students' personality traits and academic achievement. A survey method was used for the study. A simple random sampling technique was used for selecting 1000 undergraduate students from the arts, science and commerce colleges of the Kanyakumari district. A standardized tool, the Big-Five Personality test, developed by Goldberg, L. R. (1992), was used. An academic achievement test was constructed and validated by the investigator and the research supervisor (2022). Descriptive and inferential statistical techniques were used for analyzing the data. It was found that undergraduate students had a moderate level of personality traits and their dimensions. There was no significant difference in undergraduate students' personality traits and dimensions in terms of gender and stream of study. Moreover, it was found that there was no significant relationship between academic achievement and personality traits of undergraduate students in their extroversion, agreeableness, neuroticism and openness to experience. However, there is a significant relationship between academic achievement and personality traits of undergraduate students in their conscientiousness.

Keywords: Personality traits, academic achievement, undergraduate students.