THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE BIG FIVE PERSONALITY TRAITS AND ACADEMIC MOTIVATION

By Meera Komarraju, Steven J. Karau. 2005

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Subfields: Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Social Psychology

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Influence of neuroticism and conscientiousness on working memory training outcome (2012, background): “Because conscientious participants tend to be competitive and motivated to excel and improve their skills (Komarraju & Karau, 2005), they might have been highly committed to the training and might have diligently pursued the goal of possible cognitive profit.”
Grit, Basic Needs Satisfaction, and Subjective Well-Being (2017, background): “In addition, studies showed that conscientiousness is associated with intrinsic regulation (i.e., autonomy) for health behavior (Ingledew, Markland, & Sheppard, 2004) and achievement motivation (i.e., competence) for studying (Komarraju & Karau, 2005).”
The effect of personality traits on academic performance: The mediating role of academic motivation (2012, background): “As expected, the results indicated that conscientiousness and openness to experience can predict academic performance (Komarraju & Karau, 2005), suggesting that students who score high in conscientiousness and openness will be more successful at university.”
Do the Big Five Personality Factors Affect Knowledge Sharing Behaviour? A Study of Malaysian Universities (2011, background): “2004), academic motivation (Komarraju and Karau 2005), learning approaches (Busato et al.”
Hardiness and undergraduate academic study: The moderating role of commitment (2007, background): “Highly conscientious students are characterized as being intellectually curious and may be more achievement oriented, hard working, and persevering (Komarraju & Karau, 2005).”
User-generated-content versus marketing-generated-content: personality and content influence on traveler’s behavior (2018, background): “Furthermore, personality is linked to human motivation in studies beyond those of tourism, such as these of the students’ academic motives (Clark & Schroth, 2010; Komarraju & Karau, 2005; Parks & Guay, 2009).”
Role of the Big Five personality traits in predicting college students' academic motivation and achievement (2009, background): “Komarraju and Karau (2005) found that engagement motivation (thinking and desire for self-improvement) was best explained by openness and extraversion, and achievementmotivation (persisting and competing) byconscientiousness, neuroticism, andopenness.”