INFLUENCE OF PERSONALITY TRAITS ON BUSINESS AND ACCOUNTANCY STUDENTS IN THEIR ACADEMIC SKILLS PERFORMANCE AT PILGRIM CHRISTIAN COLLEGE, PHILIPPINES

Personality traits are of substantial importance and enable us to identify ways to improve higher education teaching. Academic success is powerfully influenced by individual differences in personality, motivation, and achievement. The study examined the influence of personality traits on business and accountancy students in their academic skills performance at Pilgrim Christian College, Cagayan de Oro City. The study used a descriptive design with regression analysis and used a survey to gather the primary data. The findings revealed that ages were dominated by 21 to 25 years old, females obtained the highest frequency, single respondents were the highest, accountancy students were the highest in terms of the department, and the first-year level was the highest in terms of year level. The assessment of the respondents of their personality traits in terms of conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness, openness; and neuroticism had an overall interpretation of “often happens among the respondents” and all the indicators or variables did not achieve the highest score of “4,” thus, there is a need for improvement of the personality traits among the business and accountancy students in the school of business and accountancy. There is a significant difference in the student’s personality traits in terms of conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness, openness, and neuroticism when grouped according to their demographic profile. The study concluded that personality traits influence academic skills performance. The findings exposed that openness is the highest variable influencing student academic skills performance. Recommendations are teachers and administrators can introduce a facility or venue that will facilitate the improvement of students’ personality traits, students at the School of Business and Accountancy are encouraged to step forward and pursue the improvement of their personality traits in line with the vision and mission of the school.