The Enneagram Personality Types (The feeling center) and Academic Self Among the distinguished Students

Abstract

The current study aims to

1) identify the prevalent Enneagram personality types and the academic self among the sixth-grade students of the distinguished secondary schools; 2) the differences of relationship between the Enneagram personality types and the academic self-concept based on gender; 3) identify the correlation between the Enneagram personality types and the academic self-concept; and 4) identify the contribution of each type of personality types to the academic self-concept. To this end, two instrument were used to collect the data: Riso-Hudson’s scale,1995 was administered to measure enneagram types which had translated to the Arabic language by ( al-yassery,2004), the other instrument was constructed by the author depending on the previous foreign scales to measure the academic self-concept.  The two instruments were applied to a sample consisted of (270) upper secondary school student selected randomly. The results reveal that the achiever type is more prominent among others; the distinguished secondary school students have a high level of positive academic self-concept; there is no difference between Enneagram personality types and the academic self-concept base on gender; there is a significant relationship between ( the helper, the achiever, the enthusiast, the challenger, and the reformer type ) and the academic self-concept; and finally, there is a significant contribution of the achiever type to the academic self-concept.