The Gender Difference of the OCEAN Five Personality Traits of Selected Grade Nine Students. The Basis for Intervention

Abstract

INTRODUCTION

The researcher has high regard on the many ways that the gender difference of these teenage learners is being discussed and being explained coming from thousands of personality types, thus the Big Five Personality Domains have become the building blocks and universally used in dealing with these personality traits. Based from the personal teaching experiences of the researchers, there is actually a need for an adjustment program hence a learning intervention is of great help when it comes to a deeper understanding of these teenage-learners' character and personality domains.

METHODS

This study focused on the 154 respondents from Malvar National High School who were selected through a purely random sampling technique. The instrument used was the 50-item trait test by Dr. Gerard Saucier. In order to prove the hypothesis, t-Test was used.

RESULTS

Findings revealed that most of the respondents ranked on the 30th-60th percentile with the interpretation of having AVERAGE personality traits. There is a significant gender difference in Agreeableness for a personality trait. Recommendations are for these teenage respondents to believe, accept and deal with everyone's uniqueness, strengths, weaknesses, and individuality. They may have high or low traits, high or low neuroticism, what is more, important is that these teenagers know how to appreciate and embrace God's gift to them.

DISCUSSIONS

As the scoring, norms, and interpretations for the personality traits test explain, the higher the score obtained by the respondents but not more than the value of 40, the higher the tendency and the possibility for the personality traits will be. This also explains that each of these five personality traits describes neutral and average yet relative to the respondents. Hence the frequency and intensity of these teenagers' feelings, thoughts or behaviors that attribute the significant variation possess all of these five big traits to a much greater or lesser degree. There are respondents who could be described as more agreeable than others.