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PERSONALITY TRAITS AND SELF-EFFICACY AS PREDICTORS OF THE PUPILS' SOCIAL ADJUSTMENT IN UYO LOCAL GOVERNMENT AREA, AKWA IBOM STATE

ABSTRACT

The study investigated the personality traits and self-efficacy as predictors of the pupils' social adjustment in Uyo Local Government Area. The study was guided by five purposes, research questions and five null hypotheses. Two theories were reviewed in the study which supported the five concepts reviewed by the researcher. The study adopted a correlational research design. A population of 3620 primary 5 pupils in all the 49 public primary schools in Uyo Local Government Area and the sample of 326 which represents 10% approximately of the total population selected through simple random sampling technique was used for this study. An instrument entitled Personality Traits Assessment and Self- Efficacy Questionnaire (PTAS-EQ) and Social Adjustment Questionnaire (SAQ) was used for data collection. The instrument was validated by three experts. The reliability of the instrument was established using Cronbach Alpha reliability which yielded the reliability coefficient of extraversion,0.87; neuroticism, 0.85; openness to experience, 0.70; social self-efficacy, 0.79; and emotional self-efficacy, 0.83. Simple regression analysis to answer research questions as well as testing the null hypotheses at 0.05 level of significance. The result of the findings indicates that; personality traits of extraversion, neuroticism, openness to experience and social self-efficacy are significant predictors of pupils social adjustment while the emotional self-efficacy is not a significant predictor of social adjustment among primary school pupils in Uyo Local Government Area. Based on the findings of the study, it was recommended among others that school guidance counsellors should be equipped with necessary tools both material and intellectual to enable them render counselling services that is directed towards social adjustment of pupils which would go a long way in helping to build the self-efficacy of pupils with neurotic personality trait so that pupils with the neurotic personality trait can make up in areas where they need help to adjust socially.

Keyword: Personality traits, extraversion, neuroticism, openness to experience, self-efficacy as predictors of the pupils' social adjustment in Uyo Local Government Area, Akwa Ibom State

Immaculata UMOH, Ph.D., Rebecca Lawrence GEORGE, Imaobong Itoro AKPAN AND Stella Joe ESHETT

INTERCONTINENTAL JOURNAL OF EDUCATION, SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY VOL 9. NO. 1