ORIGINAL RESEARCH article
Front. Psychol.
Sec. Personality and Social Psychology
Volume 16 - 2025 | doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2025.1490427
Effect of Big Five Personality Dimensions on the Academic Performance of University Students
Provisionally accepted
- VIT University, Vellore, India
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Personality plays a vital role in the behaviour of college students and the personality traits affects the academic performance, placement, and sustainability in their career, peers and family relationships. The present research is conducted to explore the effects of the Big Five Personality Dimensions on student's academic performance, i.e. Grade point average (GPA) of a semester in higher level educational institutions. Purposive sampling method was used in this study to analyse 384 volunteered students, consisting of 220 males and 164 females, respectively belonging to age groups between 16 and 21 years and they come from different family status (joint and nuclear). The data collected was analyzed by using SPSS (Statistical Package of Social Science) in terms of GPA (<7 and >7) and the Big five personality dimensions. Students with the conscientiousness personality factor showed a much greater difference as compared to students belonging to other personality factors like openness, agreeableness, extroversion, and neuroticism. The students have almost similar results in the personality dimensions of openness, extroversion, and agreeableness, whereas a discrepancy was noted in terms of neuroticism and a greater part with conscientiousness among the students
Keywords: Alajingi Ramkumar: Data curation, supervision, Validation, Writing -review & editing. Rita Rani Bhattacharjee: Writing -original draft, Writing -review & editing Personality, Conscientious, Openness, Extroversion
Received: 03 Sep 2024; Accepted: 16 May 2025.
Copyright: © 2025 Rani Bhattacharjee and Ramkumar. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
* Correspondence: Rita Rani Bhattacharjee, VIT University, Vellore, India
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