Relationship between Personality Characteristics and Metacognitive Strategies with Computer Self-efficacy in Student-Teachers

This study aimed to determine the relationship between personality characteristics and metacognitive strategies of student-teachers with their computer self-efficacy in 2015. The study was descriptive and correlational. The statistical population, including 953 student-teachers was discontinuous Bachelor's degree in Shahid Rajaee Teacher Training University. Among them, 280 were selected by Stratified random sampling according to their field of study, including the areas of social studies, Persian literature, mathematics, Arabic literature, educational affairs and English literature. Data collection instrument included Murphy computer self-efficacy, NEO Personality Characteristics Inventory and ONeill-Abedi metacognitive questionnaire. Data were analyzed using descriptive statistics and inferential statistics, including multiple regression. Results of enter regression showed that neuroticism and agreeableness has negative relationship with self-efficacy and openness to experience has positive relationship with computer self-efficacy. Regression analysis results showed that the openness to experience has positive relationship with computer self-efficacy. Also, cognitive strategy has a positive relationship with computer self-efficacy.