CHAPTER ONE
1.0 INTRODUCTION
Students
differ in their personal value, they receive and process information
differently, their personality traits is different and hence, so also in their
understanding. It is often argued that a blend of personality characteristic is
necessary for people successful in their carriers. Education, Researchers and
psychologists have been constantly. Searching for parsimonious set of variables
that predicts patterns of student behaviour and their relationship to academic
performance.
1.1
BACKGROUNG TO THE STUDY
Literally, the word “business” the state of being
busy generally the term business includes all human activities concerned with
earning money. In other words, business is an activity in which various people
regularly produce or exchange goods and services for mutual gain or profit
The goods and services produced or
purchased for personal use are not included in “business”
Personality could be defined as the
sum total of behaviours, attitudes, believes, and values that are
characteristics of an individual. Our personality traits determine how we
adjust to our environment and how we react in specific situations how two
individual have the same person personalities.
Personality combined a set of physical and mental
characteristics that reflects how a person looks, things, acts and feels.
The term ‘personality traits’ refers to enduring
persons, characteristics that are revealed in a particular pattern of behaviour
in a variety of situations.
It has to do with individual
differences among people in behaviour patterns, cognitive and emotion (Goldberg
2001).
Personality traits involves openness to experiences,
conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness and neuroticism. Openness to
experiences is the degree of intellectual curiosity, creativity and a
preference. For novelty and variety a person has. It is also described as the
extent to which a person is imaginative or independent and depicts a personal
preference for a Varity of activities over a strict routine conscientiousness
is the tendency to be organized and dependable, show self discipline act
dutifully aim for achievement and prefer planned rather than spontaneous
behaviour extraversion individual tends to be surgency to seek stimulation in
the company of others. Ewen(2010).
Agreeableness is the tendency to be compassionate
and be cooperative rather than suspicious and antagonistic towards others while
neuroticism is the tendency to experience unpleasant emotions easily such as
anger, anxiety depression and vulnerability. Neuroticism also refers to the degree
to emotional stability.
Academic performance could be
described as the out come of education the extent to which a student, teachers
or institution has achieved their education goal.
It can also be defined disciplines in class, as well
as extracurricular activities. It includes excellence in sporting, behaviour,
confidence, communication, skills, punctuality, assertiveness, art culture and
the likes.
The academic performance of students
could be affecting by the financial situation and standard of living of the
parents, the geographical location of the educational institution, the
diversity of student’s profile. In the same class, and also the nature of the
child.
1.2
STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM
It has been noticed that there has been a
considerable decline in the academic performance of students. This could be
traced to the fact that students are not properly guided into coping with their
personality traits.
The rate at which student fail most courses is
getting too much it is disheartening to note that the influence of personality
traits affects most of the student academic performances. These frustrated
factors which include social factor, hereditary factor religious and cultural
factors, neuroticism, extraversion, agreeableness, openness to experience, and
conscientiousness affect the performance of students.
1.3
PURPOSE OF THE STUDY
The problem of this study would be
(i)
To find out the
factors affecting personality traits
(ii)
To examine the
factors that affects students academic performance
(iii)
To examine the
influence of personality traits on the academic performance of students
(iv)
To find out the
motivational strategies that would enhance students academic performance.
1.4
RESEARCH QUESTION
1. What are the factors affecting personality traits?
2. What are the factors that affect students academic
performance?
3. What are the influence of personality traits on the academic
performance of student?
4. What are the motivational strategies that can be
used to enhance students performances?
1.5
SIGNIFICANCE OF THE STUDY
This
study would be of benefit to the lecturers because it provides them with the
opportunity to learn how handle the problem of personality traits in the
lecture room there by it helps to reduce the rate of low academic performance.
It would be of benefit to the
students because it would enable the students to identify the various causes of
personality disorder and the assessment of personality traits in them.
It
would also be beneficial to the government because it would enable the ministry
of education, the curriculum planners and also the masses to know about the
factors that affects personality traits of the students its implication and the
effects on academic performance, so as for the Government to know what to
provide in various institutions in order to make teaching and learning more
effective.
1.6 SCOPE
OF THE STUDY
The study is conducted in selected
secondary schools in Abeokuta, Ogun state. And to specifically investigate the
influence of personality traits on the academic performance of students
1.7 DEFINITION
OF TERMS
PERSONALITY:
This is the sum total of all the different ways in which a person reacts and
interacts with others.
PERSONALITY TRAITS: This refers to personal characteristics that are
revealed in a particular pattern of behaviour in a variety of situations.
ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE: This is the out come of education, the extent to
which a student, teacher, or institution has achieved their educational goals.