Academic Adjustment: Predictive Influence of Some Psychological Factors among Tertiary Institution Students in Ibadan, Nigeria

The study explored self efficacy, emotional intelligence and personality traits influences on academic adjustment among students. The research looked to discover the link that exist between self efficacy, emotional intelligence and personality traits influences on academic adjustment. Also the study likewise explored the relative and joint contributon of self efficacy, emotional intelligence and personality traits on academic adjustment. The descriptive design of correlational type was used for the study. A Sample of three hundred (300) students were selected using multi stage sampling technique. Results showed that neuroticism, conscientiousness, emotional intelligence, self efficacy, extraversion and openness had significant relationship with academic adjustment; Also all the factors considered collectively and jointly contributed 15.1% of the variance to academic adjustment. The findings further revealed that five factors made positive addition to predicting academic adjustment. Neuroticism made the most significant contribution to academic adjustment, followed by conscientiousness, followed by extraversion, followed by emotional intelligence, followed by self-efficacy, followed by openness while agreeableness is not a potent predictor of academic adjustment. It was therefore recommended that students will make well a better academic adjustment if they can be exposed to the training of these variables and school counsellors should alsoorganize an academic boosting programme that is capable of improving students’ academic adjustment.

Keyword:iAcademiciAdjustment, iPersonality itraits, iEmotional iintelligence, iSelf-Efficacy