The Relationship between the Big Five Personality Traits and Academic Motivation among Saudi Students in The UK Universities

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The purpose of this study is to examine how the big five personality traits influence the academic motivation of Saudi students at UK universities and how those roles interact in order to explain how they affect academic motivation. Consequently, university students (93 undergraduate and postgraduate) completed the Five-Factor Inventory and Academic Motivations Scale and reported their genders. An analysis of correlations revealed an interesting pattern of significant relationships. Further, regression analyses indicated that conscientiousness, openness and extraversion were explained, respectively, by (42.3%), (25.4%) and (16.3%) of the variance in intrinsic motivation; openness and conscientiousness were explained, respectively, by (38.4%) and (29.3%) of the variance in extrinsic motivation. Furthermore, females had a higher level of intrinsic motivation than males, with an arithmetic mean of (3.98) for females, and (3.82) for males. While males are more likely to display extrinsic motivation than females, the arithmetic average for male extrinsic motivation (3.65) surpasses that of female extrinsic motivation (3.55). In terms of academic motivation, students studying in the United Kingdom for one year to less than three years are among the most motivated, followed by students with more than three years' experience. Less than a year's study in the UK ranked last in academic motivation.

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