ABSTRACT

Personality variables have an important role in predicting academic performance. Researchers believed that personality traits act as significant predictors of academic performance. The Big Five Factor Model, a hierarchical model of personality, describes the general traits of human universal personality in five factors: extraversion, neuroticism, conscientiousness, agreeableness, and openness. Hence, this study established the relationship between personality traits and academic performance among ninety-one (91) grade 11 students and sixty (60) grade 12 students in private secondary high school at Kabugao, Apayao SY 2023-2024. The study employed quantitative research specifically descriptive correlational methods to correlate personality traits of students to their academic performance. The researcher used a standardized questionnaire of McCrae and Costa of Berkovich and Eyal (2021) to measure the students’ personality traits. Meanwhile, the mean academic performance of the students were taken from their grades in the 1st-3rd quarter of the said school year. The data obtained were tallied and treated using mean, frequency and percentage distribution and chi-square (2) test. Findings revealed that personality traits or the “Big Five” neuroticism, extraversion, openness to experience, agreeableness and conscientiousness are not directly predictors of academic performance. Results showed that among all dimensions, agreeableness was significantly related to academic performance. Significant differences were observed in the participants’ academic performance in terms of gender and grade level variables. Other factors interplay with personality traits to enhance academic performance.

Keywords: Academic performance, personality traits, Big Five Factor Model
https://doi.org/10.57180/phzv6886