Explaining the Contribution of Personality Dimensions in Academic Health Promoting Behaviors

Considering the importance of behaviors related to academic health in students, the present research was conducted with the aim of explaining the contribution of personality dimensions in behaviors that promote academic health.

This was a descriptive-analytical correlational study. The research population was female students of the second secondary school in Karaj city in the academic year of 2019-2019. The research sample was 150 people who were selected by cluster random sampling method. To collect data, the list of personality traits (Costa and McCrae, 1992) and the questionnaire of academic lifestyle behaviors promoting academic health (Salehzadeh, Shokri and Fathabadi, 2018) were used. Also, for data analysis, multiple regression method with step-by-step model was used in SPSS software.

The findings showed that the dimensions of extroversion, neuroticism, and conscientiousness were able to account for 14% of the changes in academic resilience, among the personality dimensions only extraversion was able to account for 14% of the changes in academic optimism, and among the personality dimensions only the dimension of extraversion was able to account for 8% of the changes in academic engagement. Among the personality dimensions, only extroversion was able to explain 3% of changes in academic vitality and extroversion, openness to experience and agreeableness were able to explain 22% of changes in mastery-oriented goal orientation (P<0.01).

According to the obtained results, planning to improve academic health-promoting behaviors based on personality dimensions, especially through increasing extroversion using educational workshops, seems necessary.