Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
GlobELT 2019 Conference, Girne, Kıbrıs (Kktc), 11 - 14 Nisan 2019
The present study sought to explore the relationship between Big Five personality traits and directed motivational currents (DMC). The participants were enrolled in a preservice English as a foreign language (EFL) teacher education program at a major state university in Ankara, Turkey. The university students (N = 102; female: 80, 78.4%; male: 22, 21.6%) participated voluntarily and gave consent for data collection. They ranged in age from 19 to 23 years (M = 20.56, SD = 1.11). Data were collected using the 50-item version of International Personality Item Pool (IPIP; Goldberg, 2001) and 15-item DMC Disposition Scale (Muir, 2016). The findings revealed a statistically significant positive correlation between personality traits and DMC. Furthermore, personality traits significantly predicted variability in the participants’ DMC, accounting for 28% of the variance in DMC 1, 38% in DMC 2, and 27% in DMC 3. Conscientiousness and openness to experience appeared as the strong predictors of DMC 1 and DMC 2, while extraversion and conscientiousness were strong predictors of DMC 3. Conscientiousness was the strongest predictor of DMC in all three models. Findings imply that the interaction of the Big Five personality traits may greatly contribute to the production and promotion of motivation in learning a second or foreign language.