The Impact of Personality Traits with the Mediation of Individual Learning on the Career Aspirations of Students

The purpose of this study is to investigate the influence of personality traits with its emphasis on individual learning on student's career aspirations. The research is a descriptive - correlational study and the population consisted of all of M.A. students of educational sciences and Psychology at Allameh Tabataba’i University in the academic year 2016-2017. Graduate students (N=350) were assigned as research population. The research sample was selected by using Cochran formula on Simple random sampling (n=180). The data gathering tools of the stratified sampling method included questionnaire, Career Anchors Shine, short form NEO personality traits and individual learning questionnaire. The validity of the questionnaires have been confirmed in numerous Internal and external studies. With research on 30 students and by using Cronbach's alpha coefficient, the reliability of the career aspirations questionnaire and personality traits and individual learning was obtained 0.91, 0.86 and 0.90, respectively. Descriptive and inferential statistics (Pearson correlation, regression analysis, path analysis) were applied to analyze the data by using SPSS and AMOS Software. The findings showed that personality characteristics in error-level P