Do Personality Factors Differentiate Between High Achievers And Low Achievers Among Engineering Students?
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The present study aimed at analyzing whether the engineering students with high and low achievement motivation differed from each other in personality or not? Total sample of 559 (305 boys and 254 girls) engineering students was taken from different engineering colleges of Punjab. This study focused at investigating how big five factors of personality i.e. Neuroticism, Extraversion, Openness to Experience, Agreeableness and Conscientiousness differentiated between students having high or low achievement motivation. ttest was applied to find out which of these factors differentiate significantly on achievement motivation among the sample under study. The results of the study revealed that Conscientiousness and Extraversion differentiated both boys and girls having high achievement motivation from their counter parts having low achievement motivation. Thus, the results revealed that personality factors play a significant role in differentiating engineering students having high and low achievement motivation.
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