Personality selfregulated learning and academic

Authors: Chelsea K McLellan Dennis L Jackson

Publish Date: 2016/12/17

Volume: 20, Issue: 1, Pages: 159-178

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Abstract

The current study explored the relation between the BigFive personality domains selfregulated learning and academic entitlement Academic entitlement is defined as the tendency to possess expectations of unearned academic success unearned/undeserved academic services and/or the expectation of unrealistic accommodation Chowning and Campbell in J Indiv Diff 1014 982 2009 SingletonJackson et al in Innov Higher Educ 2010 doi 101007/s107550109151y Academic entitlement is a pervasive problem in today’s university environment Twenge and Campbell in The narcissism epidemic living in the age of entitlement Simon and Schuster New York 2009 making it important to understand risk factors for academic entitlement Previous research on academic entitlement has reported a relation between personality factors and academic entitlement Chowning and Campbell 2009 and between academic entitlement and selfregulated learning Achacoso 2002 The current study explores the relations among these three constructs from a multivariate perspective using canonical correlation analysis Results suggested two significant canonical correlations that accounted for approximately 48 of the variance in the academic entitlement subscales

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