IIARD International Institute of Academic Research and Development

JOURNAL OF HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL POLICY (JHSP )

E-ISSN 2545-5729
P-ISSN 2695 2416
VOL. 8 NO. 2 2022
DOI: https://doi.org/10.56201/jhsp.v8.no2.2022.pg40.53

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Personality Types and Academic Achievement of Students in Obio-Akpor Local Government Area of Rivers State

Ogundipe Nnennaya Queen

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Abstract

The study investigated the Personality types and academic achievement of students in Obio/Akpor Local Government Area of Rivers State. Two research questions and two corresponding null hypotheses guided this study. The study adopted the correlational research design. 300 secondary school students were used for the study and were drawn through a combination of simple random sampling technique and stratified random sampling technique. Type A and B personalities are the independent variables while academic achievement are the dependent variables of this study. The instrument used for the study is the Personality Type Assessment Scale (PTAS,) and student scores for their last term examination was used as their achievement score. The data collected were analyzed with simple regressions as statistical tool. The results obtained indicated that the type A and type B personalities do not statistically predict academic achievement. Based on the findings, it was recommended among others that Similar studies should be conducted using volunteer and non volunteer participants. This would remove the extraneous variable that volunteer participants may have similar personality traits or learning styles thereby reducing the potential of skewing the sample population

keywords:

Personality, Type A personality, Type B personality, Academic Achievement.

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