Big five personality factors and emotional intelligence among university students: A gender perspective

Abstract

Students are the assets of a country. Personality traits and emotional intelligence are two important factors in study setting and also in career. Purpose of the study was to investigate the gender differences on big five personality traits and emotional intelligence of the university students. The data were collected from different institutes of Lahore, Pakistan.Sample size consists of (300) students in which 150 were male participants and 150 were female participants. Two questionnaires were administered, Wong and law EmotionalIntelligence scale was used to measure emotional intelligence while NEO-FFI were used to measure personality traits. It has been found that there was no gender difference regarding any of the variables used in study. Limitations and implications with future suggestions are discussed in the Pakistani Context.

Psychometric Evaluation of the BFI-10 and the NEO-FFI-3 in Indian Adolescents

“…However, in a study on postgraduate students, Joshi and Thingujam (2009) reported inadequate alpha reliability values for the NEO-FFI. The obtained psychometric values of the FFM measures are not mentioned in the other studies including 12 studies which administered the NEO-FFI/NEO-PI-R on college students or working youth of 18–30 years of age (Chaturvedula and Joseph, 2007; Pavitra et al, 2007; Sharma et al, 2010; Fazeli, 2012; Sushma et al, 2015; Sharma and Gill, 2016; Srivastava and Mishra, 2016; Gupta, 2017; Mandal, 2017; Rita, 2017; Ullah, 2017; Abbas and Khan, 2018). Singh and Ullah (2016) used NEO-PI-R with adolescent school students, but did not mention the obtained alpha reliability values.…”

Validation of the Psychometric Properties of the NEO-FFI-3 in an Arabic Context

“…23,24 The psychometric qualities of the NEO-PI-R, NEO-FFI, and the NEO-FFI-3 have presented a robust verification base in the Western societies 2,8,20,21,26,30,31 and many cross-cultural studies including different cultures in the world. 13,[15][16][17]19,22,23,25,[27][28][29] The replication of the structure of NEO Inventories in Indo and non-Indo European languages provides strong evidence of their universality. Unfortunately, the researchers did not find any Arabic adaptation of the psychometric measures of the NEO-FFI -3 Inventory.…”