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THE MEDIATING ROLE OF LEARNING GOAL ORIENTATIONS IN THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN PERSONALITY TRAITS AND ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT

In the past few decades there are a growing research interest in internal and external factors that contribute to a student’s academic achievement. Particularly, some of these studies explored the relationship between students’ beliefs (e.g. learning goal orientations) and their academic achievement, while others investigated the role of students’ personality traits in that achievement. Despite research indications about complex bi-directional relations between personality traits, motivational beliefs and academic achievement, the research of possible mediating relations between these constructs are still rare. Therefore, the aim of this study was to investigate whether learning goal orientations mediate the relationship of personality traits with academic achievement. The participants were 501 high-school students in Croatia who anonymously completed the IPIP Big-Five factor markers (Goldberg, 2001) and Achievement Goals Questionnaire (Rovan & Jelić, 2010). The mediation analysis confirmed the presumption that learning goal orientations mediate the relationship of students’ personality traits with their academic achievement.

personality traits; goal orientations; academic achievement

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