Big Five Personality Model

In the past more than a century, people mainly through the ability or intelligence test to explain individual differences in academic performance, more and more recent studies have shown that personality traits are also related to academic performance(Blickle G. 1996). The ‘Big Five personality’ dimension model is a theoretical model of personality traits which is very popular in the international psychology field in recent years. It constructs the main body of personality traits in five dimensions: openness,conscientiousness, extroversion, agreeableness and neuroticism, forming a questionnaire with good reliability and validity.
Previous studies have shown that personality traits, intelligence, and academic performance have an important impact on each other(Farsides T L, Woodfield R. 2003). Some people study the ‘big five personality’, openness, conscientiousness, extroversion, agreeableness, neuroticism and academic performance are related to each other, they find that people
1999). In addition, there is no clear theoretical point of view that the factor agreeableness is a significant factor for academic performance. It is found that the relationship between conscientiousness and academic performance is the strongest and the most consistent(Petrides K V, Chamorro-Premuzic T, Frederickson N, Furnham A. 2005). Experience openness is positively correlated with academic performance, and the extraversion is negative correlated with academic performance. No significant correlation between other dimensions and academic performance was found(Schulze, R. & Roberts, R. D. 2006). Overall, the most consistent personality change with academic performance is the sense of conscientiousness, the impact of other dimensions on academic performance remains to be further