Big 5 Personality Traits Affect M-Learning Preferences in Different Contexts and Cultures

Abstract

The Big Five Personality traits are considered by some psychologists to well describe human personality. The five traits or factors are openness, conscientousness, extraversion, agreeableness and emotional-stability. It appears highly plausible that human personality affects preferences for learning, and that this will be modified depending on context and cultures. In this paper we investigate mobile learning (m-learning) in two cultures (Australian and Saudi), and in two dimensional context model we have constructed. Our two dimensions are physical space and social space. We show that two factors (emotional-stability and agreeableness) of Big 5 as measured do affect m-learning preferences, and that these preferences are local to specific contexts as well as occasionally spanning contexts. Show more