Middle Eastern Journal of Disability Studies

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Ashori M, Pourmohammad Rezaei Tajrishi M, Jalil Abkenar S S, Ashoori J, Moosavy Khatat M. The investigation of Relationship Personality Traits, Resources Management Strategies and Motivational Strategies in Predicting Academic Achievement on the Students with Intellectual Disability. MEJDS 2011; 1 (1) :1-14
URL: http://jdisabilstud.org/article-1-320-en.html

Materials & Methods: The participants were 200 students (126 girls and 74 boys) at second grade of high school in townships of Tehran that were selected with a stratified randomly sampling method. All of them completed the personality traits questionnaire (Costa and McCrae, 1992), motivational strategies for learning questionnaire (Pintrich and et al, 1991) and achievement goals questionnaire-revised (Elliot and Murayama, 2008). the data were analyzed by method of step wise regression. 

Results: The findings showed that openness, conscientiousness, effort regulation, help seeking, mastery approach goal, performance avoidance goal and self-efficacy have a positive and significant relationship with academic achievement and neuroticism and test anxiety have a negative and significant relationship with academic achievement.Self-efficacy, conscientiousness, mastery approach goal and neuroticism predicted 45 percent of variance of academic achievement and self-efficacy had the most contribution in prediction of academic achievement. 

Conclusion: The results are due to the importance of motivational variables (self-efficacy and mastery approach goal) and personality (conscientiousness and neuroticism) in predicting academic achievement on the student with intellectual disability. Theoretical implications of findings were discussed.