العوامل الخمس الشخصية الكبرى للشخصية و تحسين الكفاءة الاجتماعية لدى طلاب المرحلة الثانوية من وجهة نظر المرشدين الطلابيين

Abstract EN

The present study aimed at identifying the most common traits among the Big Five personality traits and the levels of social competence among secondary school students, from the perspectives of school counselors.

The study also aimed at revealing the existence of a statistically significant correlation between the Big Five Personality Traits Scale and the Social Competence Scale among secondary school students, from the perspectives of school counselors.

The study sample consisted of (75) school counselors.

The researcher adopted the descriptive approach as the research approach and used two scales (Big Five Personality Traits Scale - Social Competence Scale) as the research instruments.

The study yielded several results, the most important of which are the following: the most common Big Five personality traits were rated (high), from the perspectives of school counselors; the levels of social competence among secondary school students were rated (high); there is a correlation between the dimensions of the Big Five Personality Traits Scale and the total score of the Social Competence Scale, while there is no correlation between the total scores of the two scales; and there are no statistically significant differences at the significance level of (0.05) among study sample members' overall opinions on the total score of both the Big Five Personality Traits Scale and the Social Competence Scale, based on the variables (gender - years of experience).

The study presented several recommendations, the most important of which are the following: the necessity of supporting the role of school counselors through the conduction of guidance programs that would help in increasing the levels of social competence among students; and the necessity of working with students' families and in schools on disseminating the culture of forgiveness and tolerance among students