The Big Five Personality Traits Among Female Students in Colleges and Departments of Physical Education and Sports Sciences

Abdulmaseeh, Raheeq Matti; Assi, Odeed Odisho

doi:10.33899/rjss.2025.187303

	The Big Five Personality Traits Among Female Students in Colleges and Departments of Physical Education and Sports Sciences
Al-Rafidain Journal For Sport Sciences
Volume 28, Issue 87, April 2025, Pages 53-75 PDF (1023.11 K)
Document Type: Research Paper
DOI: 10.33899/rjss.2025.187303
Authors
Raheeq Matti Abdulmaseeh^* ¹; Odeed Odisho Assi²
¹College of Physical Education and Sport Sciences - University of Duhok
²College of Physical Education and Sport Science/ University of Duhok
Abstract
The current study aims to identify the level of the Big Five personality traits among female students in colleges and departments of physical education and sports sciences, as well as the significance of differences in these traits based on the variables of province and age. After verifying its psychometric properties, the study adopted a descriptive survey methodology and used Costa and McCrae’s Big Five personality scale. The study population included second-year female students in physical education colleges and departments at universities in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq, totaling 138 students during the 2021-2022 academic year. The sample, selected purposefully, consisted of 121 students. After statistical analysis using SPSS, the results showed that the level of the Big Five personality traits among female students in universities in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq was high, except for the neuroticism trait, which was at a moderate level. The findings indicated significant differences in the extraversion trait related to the province variable and a significant difference in conscientiousness linked to the ag
Keywords
Big Five Personality Traits; Personality; Physical Education; Sports Sciences
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