The relationship between personality traits and academic performance of orphans

The authors present the results of the study on the relationship between academic performance and individual psychological characteristics of orphans. The research reveals that adolescents with low academic performance tend to have higher levels of neuroticism, emotional lability, anxiety, concern, and irritability (Eysenck questionnaire). Besides, the survey respondents demonstrate an extremely high level of aspirations and self-esteem, uncritical attitude to their capabilities and mistakes, personal immaturity, inability to make a genuine assessment of their activity results (Dembo-Rubinstein technique). The authors reveal the low motivation for success and the lack of sufficient strong-willed qualities (Ehlers technique). Orphans with low academic performance are characterized by accented character traits such as demonstrativeness, getting stuck in an emotion, hyperthyme, and emotiveness (Schmishek technique). The results demonstrated by students with average and low academic performance are compared with the help of Spearman’s rank correlation coefficient. The study identifies meaningful statistical data on the relationship between the indicators under review. It can be assumed that adolescents with low academic performance have a greater propensity for destructive behavior.