@article{2016,title={BASIC PSYCHOLOGICAL NEEDS AND PERSONALITY TRAITS AS PREDICTORS OF STUDENTS' AVERAGE FINAL GRADES: A PSYCHOLINGUISTICS CASE STUDYIN TURKEY},abstractNode={Theaim of thisstudy istoexaminethepredictivepower of basicpsychological needs and personality traits on students' final grades. The sample of thisstudyconsistsof 151Turkish students, 77 of whom(51%) werefemales and 74 (49%) males. Participants' mean age was M = 21.65 (SD = 2.21). Participants were in first to sixth year of theirstudy in Aegeanregion at a Stateuniversitystudying in an ELT department.Basic psychologicalneeds (autonomy, competenceandrelatedness) were assessed by the Basic Need Satisfaction in General Scale (BNSG, Gagné, 2003) whereas personality traits (extraversion, agreeableness,conscientiousness, neuroticismandopennessto experience) were estimated by the abbreviated 10-item short version of the Big Five Inventory (BFI-10, Rammstedt & John, 2007). Both measures had a very good internal consistency (i.e. reliability), calculated for each of their subscales. Multiple regression analysis revealed that basic psychological needs accounted for 61.7% of students' final grades (autonomy and competence were statistically significant predictors of this criterion variable). In addition, personality traits accounted for 57.3% of the criterion's variance (agreeableness and conscientiousness were statistically significant predictors of students' final grades). The findings were explained by using the frame of Self-determination theory and some considerations on self-efficacy.In the end, some recommendations for further research were listed along with advantages and disadvantages of thepresentstudy.},author={Hakan AYDOĞAN},year={2016},journal={The Journal of Academic Social Science Studies}}