Academic procrastination and five factor personality traits among college students

Abstract EN

The purpose of this study was to explore the relationship between personality traits profiled by Personality Test Based on Adjectives(Neuroticism, Conscientiousness, Extraversion, Agreeableness, Open to experience) and academic procrastination.

The research is based on a convenience sample of 120 undergraduate students (all of the were males) from a variety of departments at Zagazig Faculty of Education, Egypt.

The mean age was 19.1 years (SD= 6.3).

Pearson Product Moment Correlation analysis reported that there were no significant associations between all the personality traits profiled by Personality Test Based on Adjectives(Neuroticism, Conscientiousness, Extraversion, Agreeableness, Open to experience) and academic procrastination.