Effect of Personality Factor on Achievement Motivation

The research study 'Effect of Personality Factor on Achievement Motivation' was conducted to analyze how personality factors like openness, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness, and neuroticism effect achievement motivation across both the gender and among undergraduate and postgraduate students. Two standardized questionnaires Big Five Personality Inventory and Ray Lynn's Achievement Orientation were used. The stratified random sample comprising of 180 undergraduate and postgraduate students was used for the study. It was found that UG students are more achievement oriented than the PG students. Among the personality factors, PG students seem to have more agreeableness, conscientiousness and openness and they also show lesser neuroticism. Among the UG students, openness and neuroticism were found to be positively correlated with achievement motivation. Across gender, unlike popular belief, women were found to be more achievement oriented than men. And they are more extraverted and also score higher on neuroticism. Conscientiousness and openness were observed to be higher among men. However, on agreeableness both men and women scored the same. For women; extraversion, conscientiousness and opennessand for men, agreeableness and conscientiousness correlated with achievement motivation. These findings show a relationship between personality factors on achievement motivation as was hypothesized and contrary to the other hypothesis, neuroticism seemed to be positively correlated with achievement motivation.