Explaining the overlap between personality and learning style

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Abstract

Each scale of the Eysenck Personality Questionnaire (EPQ) and the Learning Styles Questionnaire (LSQ) was factor analysed. Extraversion (E) and Psychoticism (P) were related to many components of the four learning styles. Neuroticism (N) was not related to components of learning styles. All elements of learning style were related to at least one of the elements of the personality traits. Furnham (Personality and Individual Differences, 13, 429–438, 1992) was therefore correct to suggest that learning style is a sub-set of personality and need not be measured independently, unless it is learning style that is of interest in its own right. Those components of personality that were unrelated to learning style appear to have been already identified as having a biological basis.

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