Big FiveTraits and Academic Performance: Mediation of Metalinguistic Awareness
Journal Title: IOSR Journal of Humanities and Social Science - Year 2018, Vol 23, Issue 7
Abstract
Lexical hypothesis suggested that natural language development is an underlying relationship between big five traits and metalinguistic awareness. Academic performance is also strongly influenced by the natural language development. Hence, the objective of the present study was to examine the relationships among these three variables particularly highlighting the mediation of metalinguistic awareness between big five traits and academic performance. Three hundred sixty undergraduate students completed the Five Factor Inventory, metalinguistic test and reported their grade point average. All the correlations between big five traits, three measures of metalinguistic awareness and GPA were significant. Regression analyses showed that big five traits explained significant variances in each of the three measures of metalinguistic awareness. Two separate multiple regression analyses having big five traits and metalinguistic awareness as predictors on GPA showed that while big five traits explained 24% of variances in GPA, metalinguistic awareness explained 35%. Subjecting the data to hierarchical multiple regression analysis by entering big five traits in the first and metalinguistic awareness in the second step, beta coefficients were decreased for each of the big five traits. Analysis of mediation effect by Sobel’s test pointed out that neuroticism, openness, and conscientiousness are significantly mediated by all the three measures of metalinguistic awareness while extraversion and agreeable were mediated by metalinguistic recognition and reproduction.
Authors and Affiliations
Keka Varadwaj, Sangeeta Rath
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