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- Title
FACTORS OF PERSONALITY INVOLVED IN ADOLESCENTS' ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT.
- Authors
TULBURE, Cristina
- Abstract
The study aims at identifying the personality factors which associate with the phenomena of academic underachievement and overachievement that the adolescents confront with. The research was performed on a batch of 284 students enlisted in the first year of study, their ages ranging from 18 to 25 years old. The main method of investigation consists on the inquiry based on a questionnaire, with the usage of two questionnaires as research tools. The results of the study have emphasized the fact that underachievement and overachievement associate with those personality traits that belong especially to the area of behavioral disorders and self-image, and are consequences of superficiality, nonconformity and negative self image (underachievement) and of conscientiousness, social conformism and positive self image (academic overachievement). The conclusions of the study may be of real use not only to the researchers in the area of education psychology but also to the practitioners in the domain of education who could improve the quality of the instructional-educational process, by observing the students' personalities and revaluating the maximum potential of each student.
- Subjects
ACADEMIC achievement research; EDUCATION of teenagers; UNDERACHIEVEMENT; ACADEMIC overachievement; ATTITUDE research; CONFORMITY; CLUSTER tools (Electronics manufacturing); RESEARCH
- Publication
Research Journal of Agricultural Science, 2014, Vol 46, Issue 2, p412
- ISSN
2066-1843
- Publication type
Article