Correlations for Academic Procrastination and Five Factor Personality Traits Among Secondary School Students

Authors

  • El Farahati Elsayed Mahmoud National Center for Evaluation and Examinations

Keywords:

Personality traits, academic procrastination, first year secondary school students

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to explore the relationship between personality traits profiled by Personality Test Based on Adjectives (Neuroticism, Conscientiousness, Extraversion, Agreeableness, Open to experience) and academic procrastination. The research is based on a convenience sample of 200 first year secondary school students from two schools located in Mansoura Governorate. The mean age was 15.7 years (SD= .823). Pearson Product Moment Correlation analysis reported that there were no significant associations between all the personality traits profiled by Personality Test Based on Adjectives (Neuroticism, Conscientiousness, Extraversion, Agreeableness, Open to experience) and academic procrastination.

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2015-12-01

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Mahmoud , E. F. E. (2015). Correlations for Academic Procrastination and Five Factor Personality Traits Among Secondary School Students. Psycho-Educational Research Reviews, 4(3), 34–41. Retrieved from https://perrjournal.com/index.php/perrjournal/article/view/321