The Mediating Effect of Personality Traits in Learning Experiences and Communicative Competence of Grade 12 Students

Albert T. Tamang and Elleine Rose A. Oliva* Professional Schools, University of Mindanao,

Davao City, Philippines

*Corresponding author:

elleinerose_oliva@umindanao.edu.ph 

Abstract

This study aimed to see if personality style influences classroom learning experience and communication competence in Senior High School Filipino students in the public schools of Sta. Maria West District, Division of Davao Occidental. The data for this study came from N-234 Grade 12 students and was collected using a non-experimental descriptive correlation design. Mean and standard deviation, Pearson Product Moment Correlation, and the Sobel z-test were utilized as statistical techniques. The study found that the learning experiences, communicative competence, and personality styles had reached a high level. The learning experience and communication ability, learning experience and personality types, personality styles, and communicative abilities strongly correlate. Personality styles and learning experience mediated overall communicative ability. However, one of the personality styles did not affect the link between the learning experience and communicative competence. As a result, teachers consider senior high school students' communicative abilities through relevant learning experiences and coping with various personality styles. 

Keywords

learning experiences, communicative competence, personality traits, mediating effect, Philippines.

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