Personality Learning Styles

INTRODUCTION
The area of study of this research project is aimed at understanding the relationship between personality traits and its association with learning styles in academic settings. The study of personality traits has fascinated psychologists over the years, including individuals like Gordon Allport and Raymond Cattell, who mainly defined personality through different techniques, each attempt at defining personality culminated in multiple theories of personality and their types which are seen across all behavioral characteristics.

While reviewing the literature on personality, it was noted that over the years research has shown consistently that personality traits do indeed influence various aspects of human lives like academic performance

Learning as a process of knowledge encoding, processing and retention requires a persistent effort on the part of the learner. Moreover, since learning has been defined as a change that is lasting and enduring in nature and is behavioral in essence (Dojman, 2010), possessing certain personality traits that enhance or increase one’s ability to adapt to such changes is significant to the learning

Studies time and again have shown that personality traits greatly influence the most effective learning style for a student, and, it even influences the subjects one chooses to study (Fallan, 2006). Moreover, other studies have even shown the fact that in the past decades, research has shown that keeping the learning styles in line with the personality traits that one possesses would not only enhance the student’s academic performance but would make success more achievable (Abdullah, 2012). A study by Rashid et al (2012) revealed that there was a connection between agreeableness (personality trait) and assimilating (learning style). Kamalurzaman (2012) found out that accommodating style of learning suited the person with the extroverted personality type the most. Thus, there is sufficient evidence to support the fact that past researches and literature reviews have yielded a connection between the traits and learning styles of an