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Investigating personality traits affecting the academic adjustment of dental students
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Sevin sadat Taghinezhad    , Fatemeh Shahsavari , Maryam Jolehar * |
| Dept of Oral & Maxillofacial Pathology, Faculty of Dentistry, Tehran Medical Sciences, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran |
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Abstract: (322 Views) |
Background and Aim: Better and higher adaptation of students to the college environment can have a significant impact on the academic performance of individuals and ultimately their academic progress. The purpose of this research is to investigate the personality traits that affect the academic adjustment of dental students in Tehran Islamic Azad University of Medical Sciences in 2021-2022.
Material and Methods: This descriptive research was conducted on randomly selected students. Two questionnaires were used: 1: Anderson academic adjustment 2: HEXACO 6-factor model. The questionnaires also contained demographic information such as (age, sex, year of education, marital status). Kruskal-Wallis test was used to investigate the relationship between academic adjustment and subgroups of personality traits, and the role of variable factors was determined by regression analysis. All calculations were done using SPSS software version 26.
Results: The average academic adjustment score among 250 participating students was 34.3 ± 2.582. The average score of honesty-humility, excitability, extroversion, pleasantness, openness to experience, and conscientiousness personality traits were obtained as 11.97, 10.19, 13.49, 10.40, 13.55, and 13.85 respectively. There was a positive and significant relationship between personality subgroups, extroversion and conscientiousness with compatibility, and between personality subgroups, excitability and agreeableness, there was an inverse and significant relationship with compatibility (p<0.05).
Conclusion: It seems, status of academic adjustment for dental students of Tehran Islamic
Azad University was suitable Extraverted and dutiful had more academic adjustment and excited
and negotiable ones had less adjustments.
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| Keywords: academic adjustment/personality characteristics/dental student/Anderson academic adjustment questionnaire/HEXACO personality characteristics questionnaire |
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