Abstract: The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship of personality of 166 college students from the College of Information Technology and Business Administration (CITBA) and College of Industrial Technology (CIT) of Bulacan State University, Bustos Campus, regarding the performance in the On-the-Job training. This study also attempted to ascertain the effect of personality-based counseling intervention on the same 166 college students with their work performance in the OJT. Through random sampling, out of 684 students enrolled in CIT and CITBA, 166 were used as the sample in this study, and 11.8% came from CITBA. 12.6% came from CIT, with ages ranging from 17 to 32, from which 68.3% comprised of males, 31.7% comprised of females, and 40.7% of them counseled, 59.3% uncounseled. The Kruskal-Wallis H test shows no statistically significant relationship between the Personality Profile and the age of the respondents, since p > 0.05, in all personality profiles. The Kruskal-Wallis H test also shows no statistically significant relationship between the personality and the sex of the respondents since p > 0.05. But A Kruskal-Wallis H test shows a statistically significant relationship between the respondents' personality profile and courses since p > 0.05. Pearson Correlation Coefficient tested the relationship between OJT performance and their personality profile. A statistically significant relationship between the OJT performance and their personality profile since p > 0.05. A set of recommendations was formulated based on the results to increase the relevance of the university’s counseling intervention program in the OJT performance of the students.
Keywords: Personality, Counseling, and OJT Performance.
Title: PERSONALITY-BASED COUNSELING AND OJT PERFORMANCE OF STUDENTS AT BULACAN STATE UNIVERSITY
Author: Noel L. De Guzman
International Journal of Social Science and Humanities Research
ISSN 2348-3156 (Print), ISSN 2348-3164 (online)
Vol. 13, Issue 1, January 2025 - March 2025
Page No: 10-33
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Published Date: 13-January-2025
