Relationship Between Personality Types and Students' General Academic Performance in Kwara State

Abstract

This study investigated the relationship between per.sonality types and students‘ general academic performance in Kwara state. Nigeria. The study adopted descriptive correlation survey method. Stratified random sampling technique was used to select 10 Art. Commercial and Science students respectively from each of three Senatorial District of Kwara State. making 90 students in all. and a purposive sample ol 45 students perceived to be hyperactive (tagged personality type A) and 45 easy going (tagged personality type “B") as pointed out by their form maters. Two researcher-designed instruments were used in this study.(1) 20 item personalit) related questionnaire meant for all the respondents and (2) researcher-designed 20 item questionnaire eaeh hased on Art. Commercial and Science subjects for all respective class of the respondents. The questionnaires were given to experts in the Psychology Art. Commercial and Science departments for validation. To ensure reliability of the instruments. the instruments were subjected to test re-test statistical method using Person Product Movement Currelational Co-efficient at 0.05 alpha level of significance, resulting in 0.61 and 1.73 as reliability indexes. Mean and Standard. Deviation Statistical method was used to analyze research questions 1-6 while statistical method was used to analyse hypotheses 1-6 The findings however revealed that there were positive and high signilicant relationships between students‘ personality types "A" and "B" and their performanccs in Art. Commercial and Science subjects in Kwara State, Nigeria. In line with the findings and it was recommended that teachers should encourage all students as much as possihle to extensively read, and not for examination purposes alone, hence not regarding particular students as permanently possessing personality "A" or "B". This is because much as an individual could belong to a type of these two types of personality "A" and "B" and individual can as well exhibit the characteristics of both types since, it has been concluded that all of the students regardless of their personality type performed positively high in the Art. Commercial and Science subjects.