Five-Factor Model of Personality Traits Among Undergraduate Students Towards Intention to Join the Hospitality Industry in Greater Kuala Lumpur
Year: 2021
Type: article
Study design: Observational Study
Abstract: The purpose of this study is to determine the relationship between Personality Traits among undergraduate students towards intention to join the hospitality industry in Institutions of Higher Learning in the Greater Kuala Lumpur.This study employed Five-Factor Model of Personality Traits known as openness to experience, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness, and neuroticism.A quantitative approach was employed.Questionnaires were distributed via online questionnaires.In total 397 responses were collected.Descriptive statistics and Correlation Analysis conducted for data analysis and Statistical Program for Social Science (SPSS) was used.This study found that Personality Traits were positively correlated with the intention to join the hospitality industry.Additionally, the result of this study indicated that openness to experience, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness, and neuroticism as the Five-Factor Model of Personality Traits influences the intention of hospitality students to join the hospitality industry in the future.Practically, the outcomes of this study were beneficial to academia to understand the personality among hospitality undergraduate students.Theoretically, the findings of this study also provide academicians with the platform to achieve the valuable information on the current and real situation of hospitality students' intention to join the hospitality industry, thus eliminating gaps between literature and academic findings.
Author: Mohd Zulfakar Mohd Nawi
Institution: Tun Hussein Onn University of Malaysia
Language: English
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W3205857084