The Big Five Personality Traits and Their Relationship to Psychological Hardness among Gifted Students in Jordan

Yacoub Fareed AL Farah

doi:10.3968/13173

The Big Five Personality Traits and Their Relationship to Psychological Hardness among Gifted Students in Jordan

Yacoub Fareed AL Farah

Abstract

The study aims to reveal the level of psychological hardness among gifted students in Jordan and to know the differences in the level of psychological hardness they have according to their academic grades, in addition to identifying the nature of the relationship between the big five personality traits and psychological hardness among gifted students in Jordan. The study population consisted of all gifted students in the King Abdullah II Schools for Excellence in Jordan, which number (3) the Jubilee School and the 18 pioneering centers for the gifted in Jordan affiliated with the Ministry of Education. A representative random sample of the study population was selected. The study also followed the correlational approach, and to achieve the objectives of the study, the big five personality traits scale was used prepared by (Costa & McCrae, 1992) and Arabization of Al-Ansari (1997), in addition to the psychological hardness scale (prepared by the researcher). The validity of the two scales was verified by calculating the validity of the discriminatory significance as an indicator of its construct validity and verifying its reliability by calculating Cronbach’s Alpha.
To answer the study questions, descriptive statistic measures were used during the extraction of arithmetic means and standard deviations; To detect the level of psychological hardness among gifted students in Jordan, One-way ANOVA was used to detect the differences in the level of psychological hardness in the study sample according to the academic grade (tenth grade, first secondary, second secondary). Pearson Correlation coefficient was used to detect the correlation between the big five personality traits and psychological hardness among gifted students in Jordan. Finally, in light of the study results, the researcher presented recommendations and proposals related to the study results.

Keywords

The big five personality traits; Psychological hardness; Gifted students; Jordan

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