العلاقة بين الذكاء الوجودي و العوامل الخمسة الكبرى للشخصية لدى طلاب كلية التربية جامعه سوهاج في ضوء متغيري الجنس و التخصص الأكاديمي

Abstract EN

The present study examined the existential intelligence among University students.

Also the study examined the relationship between existential intelligence and the Big Five Personality Factors.

Alos, the possibility of predicting existential intelligence through the Big Five Personality Factors.

Another aim of this study was investigating the effect of sex, academic major and the interaction between them on existential intelligence.

The sample of this study consists of (295) from the third grade students of college of Education, Sohag University (96 male, 199 female) from different academic majors (152 scientific, 143 literary).

The age of participants ranged from 19.11 to 22.9 with average 20.62 and standard deviation (.58).

Findings of current study showed that university students have an existential intelligence.

Also, results of this study showed that there is significant relationship between Conscientiousness, Extraversion, and Openness to Experience and existential intelligence.

Also, there is no significant relationship between Agreeableness and Neuroticism and existential intelligence.

The result of multiple linear regression showed that the two Factors of the Big Five Personality Factors, /Conscientiousness, and Openness to Experience explain 7 % of variance of existential intelligence.

Also, the present study showed no statistically significant effect of sex and academic major and the interaction between them on the students’s performance in the existential intelligence.

Based on the results of the current study, some recommendations and suggestions for the future research were proposed.