TY - JOUR
T1 - A quantitative analysis of the identification of personality traits in engineering students and their relation to academic performance
AU - Cárdenas Moren, Camila
AU - Crawford Augant, Kathleen
AU - Crawford Labrin, Broderick
AU - Soto de Giorgis, Ricardo
AU - de la Fuente-Mella, Hanns
AU - Peña Fritz, Álvaro
AU - Valenzuela Saavedra, Matías
AU - Hermosilla Monckton, Pamela
AU - Álvarez Castelli, Lorena
N1 - Funding Information:
This work was supported by Nueva Ingenier?a para el 2030 [grant number 14ENI2-26905]; CONICYT/FONDECYT/REGULAR [grant number 1171243]; and CONICYT/FONDECYT/REGULAR [grant number 1160455].
Publisher Copyright:
© 2019, © 2019 Society for Research into Higher Education.
PY - 2020/7/2
Y1 - 2020/7/2
N2 - This study focuses on identifying personality traits in engineering students and testing whether they are related to academic performance. In addition, the importance of the personality construct in the educational and vocational training context was studied. A sample of 235 students from the Construction Engineering and Computer Engineering Schools of the Pontifical Catholic University of Valparaíso was used. Through correlation and econometrics analysis, the results obtained indicate that there is a relation between academic performance and the personality traits of extraversion, openness and conscientiousness. In addition, these results led to characterization of students based on their personality traits and provided elements that may enhance the development of an effective personality that allows students to successfully face their environment, playing an important role in the educational process.
AB - This study focuses on identifying personality traits in engineering students and testing whether they are related to academic performance. In addition, the importance of the personality construct in the educational and vocational training context was studied. A sample of 235 students from the Construction Engineering and Computer Engineering Schools of the Pontifical Catholic University of Valparaíso was used. Through correlation and econometrics analysis, the results obtained indicate that there is a relation between academic performance and the personality traits of extraversion, openness and conscientiousness. In addition, these results led to characterization of students based on their personality traits and provided elements that may enhance the development of an effective personality that allows students to successfully face their environment, playing an important role in the educational process.
KW - Academic performance
KW - econometrics analysis
KW - personality traits
KW - process of teaching-learning
KW - professional training of engineers
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U2 - 10.1080/03075079.2019.1572089
DO - 10.1080/03075079.2019.1572089
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85061064540
SN - 0307-5079
VL - 45
SP - 1323
EP - 1334
JO - Studies in Higher Education
JF - Studies in Higher Education
IS - 7
ER -