_____________________________________________________________________________________________________ *Corresponding author: Email: jhosellepsych@yahoo.com; Original Research Article Journal of Global Research in Education and Social Science 13(6): 208–212, 2019 ISSN: 2454-1834 THE IMPACT OF THE PERSONALITY TRAITS ON THE ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT OF THE SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS JHOSELLE TUS 1* 1 Faculty of Social Science, St. Paul College of Bocaue, Bocaue, Bulacan, Philippines. AUTHOR’S CONTRIBUTION The sole author designed, analysed, interpreted and prepared the manuscript. Received: 05 September 2019 Accepted: 11 November 2019 Published: 20 November 2019 __________________________________________________________________________________ ABSTRACT This study aims to investigate the influence of personality traits on the academic achievement of the Senior High School at St. Paul College of Bocaue. This study used the descriptive-correlation research method that utilized a standardized instrument as a primary data gathering tool. The respondents of the study were the Grade 11 Senior High School students at St. Paul College of Bocaue. The result of the study showed that the “Big Five” personality traits of the students were at an extreme level. Likewise, the result suggests that the students are very creative, focused on tackling new challenges, pays attention to detail, likes to be the center of attention, likes to meet new people, feels empathy and concern for other people. Moreover, the students experience a lot of stress, worry about many different things and feel anxious about their environment. Furthermore, the null hypothesis was tested at the 0.05 alpha level of significance to determine the impact of personality on the academic achievement of the students. The computed multiple regression analysis results revealed that personality traits do not significantly affect the academic achievement of the students. Keywords: Academic achievement; personality traits. 1. INTRODUCTION Personality traits emphasize the distinctiveness of a person and each one has an idiographic view on their identities [1]. It is vital to know what kind of personality the person has for it will help him communicate and build his own identity. It helps people make their own way of enduring the ever- changing world. As personality trait is the behavior and way of thinking that an individual develops and shows towards the other [2]. As studied by Vedel [3], “the Predictors of Academic achievement and its relationship to Personality”, results indicated that having learned the personality traits can lead to greater achievement and it also states that factors of academic achievement can either bring success or failure of the students. Furthermore, the study of personality traits and academic achievement by Abdullah [4] concluded that personality was not significantly related. The study showed the differences and uniqueness of the mixed patterns among the personalities and found out that only a certain personality affected the academic achievement of the students. As argued by Nokikova [5], in the study entitled: “Relationship of Personalities and Academic Achievement” the data gathered showed that personality has a great influence on academic achievement and personality was significantly related