Personality and Individual Differences

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The Big Five Personality traits, learning styles, and academic achievementMeera Komarraju , Steven J. Karau, Ronald R. Schmeck, Alen AvdicSouthern Illinois University at Carbondale, United Statesarticle infoArticle history:Received 15 January 2011Received in revised form 14 April 2011Accepted 27 April 2011Available online 2 June 2011Keywords: learning stylesBig FiveAcademic achievementSynthesis-analysisConscientio usnessReflectiveOpennessElaborative processingabstractPersonality and learning styles are both likely to play significant roles in influencing academic achieve-ment. College students (308 undergraduates) completed the Five Factor Inventory and the Inventory ofLearning Processes and reported their grade point average. Two of the Big Five traits, conscientiousnessand agreeableness, were positively related with all four learning styles (synthesis analysis, methodicalstudy, fact retention, and elaborative processing), whereas neuroticism was negatively related with allfour learning styles.

not know how learning styles might mediate the relationship be-tween personality traits and academic performance. In the current research, we sought to fill this gap in the literature by directly

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