Predicting Academic Resilience Based on Five Big Personality Factors and Dimensions of Perfectionism in University Students

Document Type : Original Article

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1 Associate Professor, Department of Educational Sciences, Faculty of Literature and Humanities, University of Qom, Qom, Iran

2 M.A. in Educational Psychology, Faculty of Literature and Human Sciences, University of Qom, Qom, Iran

3 Ph.D. Student in Educational Psychology, Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, Al-lameh Tabataba'i University, Tehran, Iran

Abstract

The purpose of the current research was to predict academic resilience based on the five big personality factors as well as the dimensions of perfectionism. The research method was correlational. The statistical population of the research included all the female students of Qom University in the academic year of 2019-2020, of which 363 were selected by stratified sampling based on the size of the faculty as well as Morgan's table.  They were asked to answer the academic resilience questionnaires of Samuels (2004). ), Neo's personality traits (1985) and dimensions of Tehran's multidimensional perfectionism (Basharat, 2016) that were sent to them through virtual networks. Data were analyzed using SPSS26 software at both descriptive level (mean, standard deviation and variance) and inferential one (correlation coefficient and regression analysis). The findings showed that academic resilience has a significant and inverse relationship with neuroticism. On one hand, there is a significant and direct relationship between academic resilience and extroversion, receptivity, responsibility, and self-oriented as well as other-oriented perfectionism. On the other hand, the findings indicated that neuroticism, extroversion, agreeableness, conscientiousness, and self-oriented as well as other-oriented perfectionism have the ability to predict academic resilience. In general, according to the obtained results, it can be concluded that personality traits and dimensions of perfectionism can predict academic resilience.

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Journal of research in instructional methods
Volume 2, Issue 2 - Serial Number 6
September 2024
Pages 5-21

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  • Receive Date: 18 May 2023
  • Revise Date: 12 November 2023
  • Accept Date: 04 January 2024

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