The relationship between Learning Styles and personality traits with university students' Academic Achievement in English course

Subject Areas : Educational Psychology

Golamreza , Monshaei ¹ , Nasrollah Veysi ² , Mohammadreza Saffarian Tousi ³ , Fatemeh Haji Arbabi ⁴ , Jamal Ashouri ⁵

1 - دانشگاه آزاد اسلامی، واحد علوم و تحقیقات اصفهان، استادیار گروه روانشناسی، اصفهان، ایران.
2 - کارشناس‌ارشد روانشناسی و آموزش کودکان استثنایی، گروه روانشناسی، دانشگاه علامه طباطبایی، تهران، ایران.
3 - دانشگاه آزاد اسلامی واحد مشهد، مربی و دانشجوی دکتری روانشناسی تربیتی، گروه علوم تربیتی، مشهد، ایران.
4 - دانشگاه آزاد اسلامی واحد مشهد، مدرس گروه علوم تربیتی، مشهد، ایران.
5 - مدرس دانشگاه

Received: 2016-04-08 Accepted : 2016-04-08 Published : 2013-12-22

Keywords: learning styles, Academic Achievement, Personality traits, Students University, English Language,

Abstract :

This research aimed at investigating the relationship between learning styles (field dependent and field independent) and personality traits (neuroticism, extroversion, openness, agreeableness and conscientiousness) with students' academic achievement. The population was all the students of humanistic science fields in Islamic Azad University of Mashhad branch. For this research, 360 students (196 girls and 164 boys) were selected using stratified random sampling. All of them completed the learning style questionnaire (Oltman, Raskin and Witkin, 1971) and personality traits (Costa and McCrae, 1992) .The researcher made test tests were considered as indicator of academic achievement in English language. The findings showed a positive and significant relationship between field dependent (p≤0/01), openness and conscientiousness with academic achievement (p≤0/05) and a negative and significant relationship between neuroticism with academic achievement (p≤0/01). Conscientiousness, field dependent and openness in one predicted model predicted 49 percent of variance of academic achievement and also share of conscientiousness in prediction academic achievement was over of other variables...  

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