Abstract:
The study aimed to explore the relationship between mental motivation and
the big five factors, according to the variables of gender, level of achievement
and specialization. The sample consisted of )308( students,)76 male 232
female) who were selected by the accessible sampling technique from the
various colleges of Yarmouk University who were enrolled in the summer
semester of the academic year 2016/2017. The California scale of mental
motivation developed for Jordanian environment by )Maraie and Nofal, 2008(
was used, and the Personality Scale was developed by the researchers based
on the list of the five major factors developed by Costa & McCrae and the
arabic version translated by Ansari )1997(.The results of the study indicated
that students obtained a high level of mental motivation on the total score,
and for all dimensions except the integration dimension where the level of
performance was moderate . The results also showed that the dimension of
conscientiousness is the most prevalent dimension among students, whereas
the neuroticism is the least prevalent pattern among Yarmouk University
students. Further, the results indicated that there were no statistically significant
differences in the level of mental motivation due to the variables of gender,
level of achievement and specialization.
The results also showed that females scored higher on the conscientiousness
than males, and scientific faculty students scored higher on the neuroticism than
humanistic faculty students, whereas students with very good achievement
scored higher on the openness to experience than students with acceptable.
Moreover, there is a positive correlation between mental motivation
in and the big five factors, except for the neuroticism dimension where the
relationship was negatively significant.