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Toh, S.-Y., Yasmin, F., Tehseen, S., Poulova, P., Haider, S. A., Andrews, E., … Mahendra, R. Z. (2024). Born this way or formed this way? Distal personality traits and proximal self-efficacy of Malaysian students and their academic performance. Environment and Social Psychology, 9(5). https://doi.org/10.54517/esp.v9i5.2282

Born this way or formed this way? Distal personality traits and proximal self-efficacy of Malaysian students and their academic performance

Seong-Yuen Toh

Department of Management, Sunway Business School (SBS), Sunway University

Fakhra Yasmin

Department of informatics and quantitative methods, Faculty of Informatics and Management, University of Hradec Kralove

Shehnaz Tehseen

Department of Management, Sunway Business School (SBS), Sunway University

Petra Poulova

Department of informatics and quantitative methods, Faculty of Informatics and Management, University of Hradec Kralove

Syed Arslan Haider

Department of Management, Sunway Business School (SBS), Sunway University

Elizabeth Andrews

Department of Management, Sunway Business School (SBS), Sunway University

Punitha Sinnappan

Department of Marketing Strategy & Innovation, Sunway Business School (SBS), Sunway University

Rayhan Zaky Mahendra

Department of Management, Sunway Business School (SBS), Sunway University


DOI: https://doi.org/10.54517/esp.v9i5.2282


Keywords: social cognitive theory, self-efficacy, openness to experience, five factor model, academic performance, Malaysia

Abstract

It has been acknowledged that academic performance has important consequences in one’s career, thus, a better understanding of both distal and proximal predictors deserves consideration. Based on social cognitive theory, this study contributes to the limited research investigating the academic performance of university students in Malaysia using the trait model which considers the mediation of self-efficacy (proximal characteristic) in the relationship between student personality (distal trait) and academic performance (outcomes). In a sample of 264 participants, self-efficacy positively relates to academic performance and positively mediated effects of all traits (except neuroticism) on academic performance. Contrary to past research, conscientiousness, extraversion, and agreeableness do not exert direct effects on academic achievement but instead through self-efficacy. Openness to experience turned out to be the strongest predictor pointing to a need for in-depth investigations into this dimension and for more complex model incorporating other proximal attributes in predicting academic performance in future research.

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