Personality Types and Academic Persistence in Doctoral Students

In past studies regarding student retention researchers have focused primarily on the undergraduate student population but high attrition rates exist in doctoral students. Furthermore core personality types such as openness to experience conscientiousness extraversion agreeableness and neuroticism relate to academic persistence. The purposes of the current mixed-methods sequential explanatory study were to examine the relationship between doctoral student personality types and persistence and to explore doctoral students’ perceptions of the impact of personality types on their persistence.