Mental Motivation and its Relationship with the Big Five Factors among Yramouk University Students

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.