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The Relationship between Big Five Personality Traits and Academic<br />

Motivation among Accounting Students at UniSZA<br />

Wan Nurizzati binti Wan Mohamad Zahari<br />

Supervisor: Prof. Madya Dr. Zakaria bin Mohamad<br />

Bachelor of Counseling<br />

School of Social and Economic Development<br />

The main focus for this study is to investigating the relationship between personality<br />

trait’s and the level of student’s motivation at Universiti Sultan Zainal Abidin (UniSZA),<br />

campus of Gong Badak. A total of 80 students of second year majoring in Accounting<br />

at Universiti Sultan Zainal Abidin (UniSZA), campus of Gong Badak are selected as the<br />

respondents of this study. The instrument of this study is using a set of questionnaire.<br />

The respondents were asked to answer the questionnaire of Big Five Inventory (BFI)<br />

developed by John, Donahue and Kentle (1991) and Academic Motivation Scale (AMS-<br />

C 28) developed by Vallerand et. al (1992). The design of this study is a kind of<br />

correlation study in quantitatively. Moreover, the data was analysed by correlation test<br />

and t test through Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS) version 25.0.<br />

1344 | UMT UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH DAY 2018

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