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| Published: August 29, 2024
Neuroticism and Academic Performance in College Going Students: A Correlation Study
Student, Department of Psychology, Nowrosjee Wadia College, Savitribai Phule Pune University, Pune (India)
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Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, Nowrosjee Wadia College, Savitribai Phule Pune University, Pune (India)
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DIP: 18.01.156.20241203
DOI: 10.25215/1203.156
ABSTRACT
The present study was aimed to investigate the relationships between neuroticism and academic performance. A sample of 120 individuals of college going students. Purposive sample was collected through accidental sampling. Result revealed that students with neuroticism (M = 23.60 and SD = 7.436) and for academic performance (M = 61.84 and SD = 12.00). The correlations of neuroticism and academic performance of S.Y. B.Sc. students indicated that there is a strong correlation at 0.01 level between neuroticism and academic performance. Therefore, students with high on neuroticism will be significantly low in academic performance compared to student’s low in neuroticism is accepted. The implication of this study was to develop insight in each student the existence of negative emotionality as a dimension of personality and its influence on their academic performance.
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This is an Open Access Research distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any Medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
© 2024, Pandey, K. & Date, N.
Received: May 07, 2024; Revision Received: August 26, 2024; Accepted: August 29, 2024
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ISSN 2348-5396
ISSN 2349-3429
18.01.156.20241203
10.25215/1203.156
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Published in Volume 12, Issue 3, July-September, 2024