Personality Traits and Achievement Motivation

Author(s): Dr. Lata A Chavan

Abstract:

130 undergraduate students were administered NEO Five-Factor Inventory by Costa, and McCrae, and Sentence Completion Test by Mukherjee. The study was aimed at measuring strength of association between n Ach and five factors of personality-neuroticism, extraversion, openness, agreeableness and conscientiousness. It was hypothesized that n Ach is negatively and strongly related to neuroticism, while remaining four factors are positively related with n Ach. Data were treated by Pearson’s r and percent variations were computed. Results supported all the five hypotheses. The best predictor of n-Ach was agreeableness, whereas neuroticism was found relatively less accurate predictor of n-Ach.

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