The causal model of academic adjustment based on personality traits with the mediating role of goal orientation

Subject Areas : Tectonostratigraphy

Zahra Tabatabaei ¹ , soltanali kazemi ² , azarmidokht rezaei ³ , Maryam Kouroshnia ⁴

1 - PhD student in Educational Psychology, Islamic Azad University, Marvdasht Branch, Marvdasht, Iran
2 - Islamic Azad University of Marvdasht
3 - Islamic Azad University of Marvdasht
4 - Islamic Azad University of Marvdasht

Received: 2020-04-16 Accepted : 2020-06-18 Published : 2020-01-21

Keywords: personality traits, goal orientation, academic adjustment,

Abstract :

The purpose of the present study was to design and explain the causal model of academic adjustment based on personality traits with the mediating role of goal orientation. The research method was correlational and in particular structural equation modeling. The population consisted of all undergraduate students of Islamic Azad University of Marvdasht in the academic year of 2019-2020. The statistical sample consisted of 600 subjects who were selected through multistage cluster sampling and answered the Ederson et al. Academic Adaptation, McCreary & Costa's Personality Characteristics, Elliott and McGregor's Goal Orientation and the attributional styles of Patterson et al. questionnaires. The results indicated that the proposed model fits well. The indirect effect of neuroticism, extraversion, agreeableness, and conscientiousness on academic adjustment through goal orientations was significant. But the indirect effect of openness to experience on academic adjustment was not addictive. Based on the findings of the study, it can be concluded that goal orientation plays a mediating role in the relationship between personality traits and academic adjustment.

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