Role of the Big Five personality traits in predicting college students' academic motivation and achievement

By Meera Komarraju, Steven J. Karau, R. Schmeck. 2009

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Subfields: Clinical Psychology, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Social Psychology

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Assessing the Effectiveness of a College Freshman Seminar Using Propensity Score Adjustments (2011, background): “Previous research has indicated that intrinsic motivation to accomplish things, intrinsic goal orientation, external regulation, and academic self-efficacy were all positively related to GPA; and amotivation was negatively related to GPA (Cokley 2003; Komarraju et al. 2009; McKenzie et al. 2004).”
Cognitive and Non-Cognitive Predictors of College Readiness and Performance: Role of Academic Discipline. (2013, background): “Komarraju et al. / Learning and Individual Differences 24 (2013) 103–109”
Predicting the Big 5 personality traits from digital footprints on social media: A meta-analysis (2018, background): “Research has shown that personality may be predictive of many aspects of life, including academic success (e.g., Komarraju, Karau, & Schmeck, 2009), job performance (e.g., Judge, Higgins, Thoresen, & Barrick, 1999; Neal, Yeo, Koy, & Xiao, 2012), social status (e.g., Anderson, John, Keltner, &…”
The Big Five personality traits, goal orientations, and academic achievement (2017, background): “…Conscientiousness and Agreeableness were positively associatedwith different aspects of self-regulated learning and academic achievement (Bidjerano & Dai, 2007; Fayyaz & Kamal, 2011; Komarraju et al., 2009; Larsen & Buss, 2008; Poropat, 2009; Sorić, Penezić, & Burić, 2013; McCabe et al., 2013).”
Investigating grit and its relations with college students’ self-regulated learning and academic achievement (2015, methodology): “…personality traits, or other stable individual differences such as grit are, therefore, commonly viewed as precursors or potential influences on the attitudes, beliefs, cognitive processes, and behaviors that embody SRL (Bidjerano and Dai 2007; Eilam et al. 2009; Komarraju et al. 2009).”
Motivational mechanisms of employee creativity: A meta-analytic examination and theoretical extension of the creativity literature (2016, methodology): “Among the Big Five personality traits, conscientiousness is thought to be the most relevant for one’s task performance (e.g., Komarraju et al., 2009).”
The effect of personality traits on academic performance: The mediating role of academic motivation (2012, background): “…conscientiousness and openness to experience) and effect on academic motivation and achievement (e.g., Costa & McCrae, 1992; Grozier, 1997; Komarraju et al., 2009; Clark & Schroth, 2010), we hypothesized that the relationship between personality and academic performance mediated by…”
High self-control predicts more positive emotions, better engagement, and higher achievement in school (2014, background): “They enter the classrooms with their own personalities and predispositions which can have a significant impact on their learning experience (e.g., Bartels and Magun-Jackson 2009; ChamorroPremuzic and Furnham 2009; Komarraju et al. 2009).”
Creativity, Age And Gender As Predictors Of Academic Achievement Among Undergraduate Students (2009, background): “In other words also the ranges of scores between two groups were same (18).”