Thesis:

Investigating the relationship between learning styles and personality traits with academic self-efficacy of secondary school students in Sabzevar city

The purpose of this research was to investigate the relationship between learning styles and personality traits with academic self-efficacy of second secondary students in Sabzevar city. According to the purpose and application, this research is of the fundamental research type. Also, the descriptive research method is correlation type. The statistical population in this research was all secondary school students of Sebzvar city. The number of these students in 10th, 11th and 12th grades is 5302. A statistical sample of 380 people was randomly selected based on Morgan's table and Wark's (2009) learning style questionnaire, Morgan et al.'s (1999) academic self-efficacy questionnaire, and Costa and McCree's (1990) five-factor personality questionnaire were distributed among them. Inferential and descriptive statistics were used to analyze the data. Descriptive statistics were used to check the mean and standard deviation of the research variables and inferential statistics were used to analyze the research hypotheses, which included Kolmogorov-Smirnov tests to check the normality of the research variables, regression test and Pearson correlation. The analysis method was done using spss software version 28. The results showed that there was no significant relationship between learning styles (movement-movement, listening, reading-writing and visual) with students' academic self-efficacy. There was a relationship between personality traits (neuroticism, extroversion, openness to experience, agreeableness, and conscientiousness) with students' academic self-efficacy, and finally, there was a significant relationship between learning styles and personality traits with academic self-efficacy of the second secondary students of Sabzevar city. There was a positive. Keywords: learning styles, personality traits, academic self-efficacy.

Keywords: Keywords: learning styles, personality traits, academic self-efficacy