Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
Personality and Individual Differences, cilt.258, 2026 (SSCI, Scopus)
This study examined how Big Five personality traits and academic life satisfaction are associated with future expectations among Turkish university students ( N = 302). Using multiple and hierarchical regression analyses, personality traits were differentially related to academic life satisfaction (R2 = 0.087) and future expectations (R2 = 0.180), with openness emerging as the most consistent predictor. Academic life satisfaction contributed incremental variance in future expectations beyond personality traits (ΔR2 = 0.032), yielding a final model explaining 21.3% of the variance (R2 = 0.213). Mediation analyses (PROCESS Model 4; 5000 bootstrap samples) indicated a significant indirect association for openness via academic life satisfaction, weaker evidence for extraversion, and no indirect association for conscientiousness, although conscientiousness retained a direct association with future expectations. Moderation analyses showed no gender differences, while age modestly strengthened the association between extraversion and future expectations (ΔR2 = 0.010). Overall, findings suggest that future expectations are linked to both dispositional traits and domain-specific academic evaluations within a Turkish higher education context, while underscoring the need for longitudinal and multi-method research to clarify directionality.