Procrastination and Three of Big Five Personality

Running head: PROCRASTINATION AND THREE OF BIG FIVE PERSONALITY 1
The Relationship Between Procrastination and Three of Big Five Personality
(Conscientiousness, Extraversion, Openness)
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Abstract
The purpose of this study is to explore the relationship between procrastination and three of
the “Big five” personality traits (conscientiousness, extraversion, openness). The hypothesis
of the study is that there does not exists a significant relationship between conscientiousness
(N) or extraversion (E) or openness (O) personalities and procrastination. The method used in
the analysis are Pearson correlation and OLS regression. The results obtained confirmed that
there exists a significant negative relationship between conscientiousness (N) or extraversion
(E) and procrastination but no significant relationship between procrastination and openness
(O). Therefore, the conclusion from the study was that people who are extroverts and having
high level of conscientiousness are less likely to postpones activities (procrastination).
Keywords: Procrastination, conscientiousness, extraversion, openness and personalities.

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The Relationship Between Procrastination and Three of Big Five Personality
(Conscientiousness, Extraversion, Openness)
Introduction
The aim of this study was to investigate existences of relationship between the
procrastination level and three of the big five personality factors (conscientiousness,
extraversion, and openness to experience) in the 3rd year psychology students. In order to
achieve the main aim three objectives and three hypotheses were framed in relation to the
four variables. The three objectives are directly related to procrastination and the big five
personality domains in the whole group of 3rd year psychology students, males against
females. Further, the three-hypothesis formulated were related the study of link between the
procrastination and threes of the big five personality factors. The following objectives and
hypothesis were settled on for this study;
Objectives of the Study
(i) To find out whether there exists a significant link between conscientiousness (C)
personality and procrastination.
(ii) To examine the relationship between extraversion (E) and procrastination.
(iii) To establish if there exist any relationship between openness (O) personality and
procrastination.
Hypothesis of the Study
(i) There does not exists a significant relationship between conscientiousness (N)
personality and procrastination.
(ii) There does not exists a significant relationship between extraversion (E) personality
and procrastination.
(iii) There will be no significant link between openness (O) personality and
procrastination.

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The Big-Five Model
In the field of psychology, the ‘Big Five’ model forms the backbone of research and
study of personality. The theory has been in used from the late 20th Century to date. The five
factors are mostly used to measure or develop an in-depth description of personalised
variations in personalities (Borghuis et al., 2017). The five factors are neuroticism,
agreeableness, extraversion, conscientiousness, and openness to experience. In practise the
five factors are presented in the acronym ‘OCEAN’ (van der Linden et al., 2017). The
measures are on a continuous scale in which three groups of individuals can be defined.
Those with high score are extroverts, low score are introverts. A part from the two extremes a
person might be between the two extremes. These people are referred to as moderates.
The early research on personality inclined on the trait theory. The theory states that a
person’s behaviour and temperament can be described based on individual traits such as
melancholy or friendliness and self-confidence (Saucier & Srivastava, 2015). However, the
theory takes a vocabulary approach to personality by assuming that character can be
explained based on descriptive phrases or single adjectives. Moreover, the lexical approach
requires that if a significant number of people regularly exhibit a particular form of behaviour
but there does not exist a psychological term in any language to explain it, then a term is
formulated for the trait and discussed with others.
Personality Traits
Personality is a term derived from the Latin word, persona (Kristanto & Abraham,
2016). Originally the term was used to refer to theatrical mask. According to Sirois, Yang and
van Eerde (2019) the exploration of personality was first introduced by Hippocrates' defined
by four humours which were transformed to four temperaments. Therefore, personality refers
to the dynamic association within an individual that determines their characteristics thought
and behaviour. Moreover, Garcia-Naveira and Ruiz-Barquin (2013) refereed to personality as