Assessment 2: Pages 9-19

Running Head: PSY465 - PSYCHOLOGY OF PERSONALITY                    1
PSY465 - PSYCHOLOGY OF PERSONALITY                        11
ASSESSMENT ITEM 2 – ESSAY
ESSAY TITLE: 1. CAN THE FIVE FACTOR TAXONOMIC MODEL OF PERSONALITY PREDICT ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE?
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NAME OF THE SUBJECT: PSY465 - PSYCHOLOGY OF PERSONALITY
Table of Contents
Introduction    3
Five Factor Taxonomy Model of Personality    4
Argument for the Topic    7
Neuroticism    7
Agreeableness    7
Openness to Experience    8
Conscientiousness    8
Extraversion    8
Conclusion    9
References    11
Introduction
Prediction of academic performance is important in the aspect of considering the future of the child. The academic performance can help the student to grow their personality and achieve their set of goals. Such performance can be predicted through the implementation of Five Factors Taxonomy Model (FFM). The FFM helps to establish a general knowledge about the student through their academic performance divided taxonomically.
The framework needs to be set up, differentiation is done between the students, a systematic approach is obtained to judge their personality and the behaviour is evaluated for their effect in academic performance through their personality. The openness to new experiences and maintaining an emotional stability adds to the FFM, which develops the psychological personality of an individual.
This development incorporates the positive personality, which results in better development of the future through better academic performance. An individual decides what personality to express during a particular situation. Similar is the case regarding academics. Some individual shows a motivated personality in striving netter result and others are demotivated who cannot produce a fruitful academic performance.
I will discuss about the FFM, which can help in predicting the academic performance, further in this essay. Each aspect of the model such as agreeableness, extraversion, conscientiousness, neuroticism and openness to experience will be discussed elaborately to show that such personality can predict the academic performance of a student.
    
The five-factor taxonomy model helps to be organised in personality, not being affected to environmental influences, helps to control the emotion and reactions and display the behaviours that makes one unique. All these result in the development of a psychological personality adding to the success of the academic performance of a student.
Growing cognitive skills and personality mainly depends on the academic performance of an individual. I feel that the FFM can be used to predict the academic performance of an individual, which will help the psychologists to understand the personality of the student.
Five Factor Taxonomy Model of Personality
The five-factor taxonomy model mainly expresses the five domains of personality namely Neuroticism, Extraversion, Openness to Experience, Agreeableness and Conscientiousness. These help to differentiate the most stable individual according to their cognition, behaviour and emotions. As supported by Condon et al. (2021), the taxonomical model can easily be used to construct the personality of an individual.
The psychological behaviour, the way of expressing oneself, acceptable to the new experiences, motive to please all and being alert at every situation helps to identify the personal trait of an individual. However, according to Brandes and Tackett (2019), the psychopathological traits can also be measured through the hierarchical taxonomy model. It adds more information about several people showing different traits of personality due to their surroundings, external and internal incidences.
As suggested by MacCann et al. (2020), the prediction of academic performance of a student can be accurately done through the consideration of their emotional intelligence. Emotional intelligence is an aspect of the FFM, which helps to clarify the personality trait of an individual. The maintenance of the emotional stability helps an individual to be open to the criticisms and feedbacks of others.
Acceptance towards such criticisms helps the students to modify their cognition and emotion to produce a better behaviour of personality. The university students try to improve themselves through such process to achieve a better outcome in academics. As stated correctly by Alhadabi and Karpinski (2020), the self-efficacy and efficiency increases through the FFM of personality if the student tries to bring out the best in them.
The academic achievements mainly relate with the agreeableness, openness and conscientiousness and help to predict the academic performance. The model helps to judge the satisfaction of an individual in a process. In case of...