MEDIATING ROLE OF ACADEMIC MOTIVATION ON BIG FIVE PERSONALITY AND ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE RELATIONSHIP Ida Bagus Gede Adi Permana
Universitas Airlangga
Abstract
The Big Five Personalities and academic motivation is closely related to students academic performance. Academic performances can be either improving or declining according to the students personalities and academic motivation. This study aims to seek the influence of the Big Five Personalities on academic performance, using the academic motivation as the intervening variable.
The findings shows that the dimensions of the Big Five Personalities significantly influence the academic performance. The other results show that openness partially influences academic performance after being mediated with intrinsic motivation, agreeableness and openness respectively influence fully and partially on academic motivation.
Keywords: Big Five Personalities, academic performance, academic motivation
Topic: Organizational Behavior, Leadership and Human Resources Management
