Pattern of changes in personality traits and self-esteem among UKM-UDE Double degree students

Author

Muchtar, Andanastuti ; Lee, Mohd Najib Redzuan ; Mastor, Khairul Anwar ; Abdullah, Shahrum ; Hunger, Axel

Author_Institution

Centre for Eng. Educ. Res., Univ. Kebangsaan Malaysia, Bangi, Malaysia

fYear

2011

fDate

4-6 April 2011

Firstpage

786

Lastpage

791

Abstract

The present paper reports a study on identifying pattern of changes in self-esteem and personality traits among UKM-UDE double degree students who study in both UKM in Malaysia and University of Duisburg-Essen (UDE) in Germany. A longitudinal design of data collection was employed. Students responded to the Rosenberg Self-esteem and Big Five personality inventory (BFI) at three different times throughout one year. Data analysis indicated that there were significant changes in self-esteem and some noticeable pattern of change in the personality traits within one year stay in UDE campus. These findings suggest that new, intercultural environment and goal modification experienced by the students could probably cause the changes in the students´ self-esteem and personality traits. The Double-degree programme seems to bear positive impact on the overall personality development of future engineers. Implications and possible future relevant research are discussed.

Keywords

data analysis; engineering education; social sciences; Rosenberg self-esteem; UKM-UDE double degree students; big five personality inventory; data analysis; data collection longitudinal design; double-degree programme; engineering education; personality traits; Conferences; Correlation; Ecosystems; Engineering students; Humans; Investments; Group comparison; Personality development; Self-esteem; Social Investment theory;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Global Engineering Education Conference (EDUCON), 2011 IEEE

Conference_Location

Amman

Print_ISBN

978-1-61284-642-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/EDUCON.2011.5773229

Filename

5773229