النمذجة البنائية السببية للعلاقة بين الشغف و العوامل الخمسة الكبرى للشخصية و بعض المتغيرات لدى طلبة جامعة المجمعة

Abstract EN

The present study aims to investigate the relationship between passion and the big five per¬sonality traits among university students of both genders in the light of some variables such as the socioeconomic status, gender, age, and specialization.

The passion and the big five-personality traits scale was prepared by the researcher and applied on (302) students of both genders; (66) female and (236) male.

The researcher used the descriptive correlation design and the regression analysis design via SPSS and Amos software.

The findings indicated that there was a positive correlation between passion and the big five personality traits.

Furthermore, the findings indicated that there was a statisti¬cally significant effect of the passion on the big five personality traits.

Finally, the findings also sho¬wed that there was a statistically significant effect of some variables (the economic level, gender, age, and specialization) on the level of (0.01) on the passion and the big five personality traits.

The study recommended paying attention to students’ personality traits and targeting these personality traits in counseling programs to identify the students’ passion and their areas of interest.