DRAWING PREDICTIVE DETERMINANTS OF COLLEGE ADJUSTMENT: PERSPECTIVES FROM TWO PRIVATE SECTARIAN COLLEGIATE INSTITUTIONS
Keywords:
Big five personality factors, career preference, , paternal parenting style, college adjustment.Abstract
The paper describes the relationship among Big five personality factors, paternal parenting style and career preference to college adjustment of selected Filipino college freshmen. Two hundred college students (n=200) who were part of the larger population of individuals aged from 15 to 23 at two sectarian private institutions in Metro Manila were selected and asked to answer Big Five Inventory (BFI), Parental Authority Questionnaire (PAQ) and College Adjustment Test (CAT). The study employed a descriptive-predictive research design to measure the degree of correlation among such variables and to identify if what among these independent variables can predict adjustment of the respondents to collegiate life. After subjecting data into statistical analyses via SPSS 17.0 software, it was revealed that college adjustment is significantly associated with gender (ή=.14, p<.05), extraversion (r=.18, p<.05), conscientiousness (r=.18, p<.05), neuroticism (r=-.40, p<.05), career preference (ή=.34, p<.05) and permissive paternal parenting style (r=.23, p<.05). Neuroticism (ß=-7.98, t=-4.99, p<.05) and permissive paternal parenting style (ß=.33, t=2.48, p<.05) were found out to be predictive determinants of college adjustment. College of adjustment significantly differs when clustered according to gender and paternal parenting style, F (5, 194) = 2.50, p<.05. The researcher also looked into the possible implications of this finding to the population at hand.
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