Personality, networking skills and critical thinking among University students

Abstract

This study investigated the relationship between personality, networking and critical thinking among university students. The sample consisted of 100 year 3 undergraduate students taken from the College of Humanities and Social Sciences, Makerere University Kampala. Research was made using self-administered questionnaires with close-ended questions to obtain data from respondents and data analysis was made using Pearson product Moment Correlation Coefficient. Analysis revealed that only the personality trait of openness was significantly related with networking, and personality traits of conscientiousness, extraversion and agreeableness had no significant relationship with networking. Furthermore, the results demonstrated that networking and critical thinking were significantly related. The results also revealed that personality traits of openness and conscientiousness were significantly related with critical thinking while personality traits of extraversion and agreeableness were not related with critical thinking