Personality Traits as Predictors of Academic Achievement Among Junior College Students of Basilan State College

This study delved on the Personality Traits as Predictors of Academic Achievement among Junior College Students of Basilan State College. A total of seventy (70) student respondents participated in the study drawn using the purposive quota sampling technique. In obtaining data, the standardized Sixteen Personality Factor Questionnaire (16 PF) and the Grade Point Average of the student respondents in four subject areas, Mathematics, Science, English, and Social Science were utilized. Results showed that: the students were found to have the following personality traits; (1) less intelligent; (2) affected by feelings; (3) practical; (5) shrewd; and (6) apprehensive; the student's adjectival rating for the academic achievement in Mathematics, Science, English, and Social Science is GOOD; three (3) personality traits for the academic contribute to the variance of the students grades in Mathematics and these are Factors 1 (Tenderminded), Factor M (Imaginative) and Factor Q3 (Controlled); there is a significant difference in the personality traits of the students based on the variable Age. The meaningful difference existed in Factor N between Age brackets of (19 and 21) and (21 and 22); there is a significant difference in the personality traits of the student's respondents based on the variable Gender. The significant difference between male and female students existed in nine (9) factors: Factor A (reserved), B (less intelligent), C (affected by feelings), F (sober), H (shy), M (practical), O (placid), Q2 (group-dependent), and Q4 (relaxed); there is no significant difference in the personality traits based on the variable Socio-economic Status; and there is a significant relationship in the students' academic achievement between and among the following subject areas: (1) Mathematics and Science; (2) Mathematics and English; (3) Science and English; (4) English and Social Science.