Relationship between personality traits, decision-making and academic permanence

This article presents a narrative review about the relationship between personality traits, decision-making and academic permanence. For this, a search was carried out in the Science Direct, EBSCO, Proquest databases and the descriptors personality, traits, university, decision-making, academic permanence were used. For the analysis of the texts, the review criteria of the CASPe guide were taken into account. A total of 25 studies were included in this review. It was found that there is a relationship between risky decision making and the factor of agreeableness. Each level of individual adaptation, together with the motivation to achieve academic goals during the development of the university career, need to be understood from a triple perspective that is not exclusive. These three variables allow a more specific view from the context of decision-making in the university environment. Finally, the need to delve into studies involving the three variables mentioned, beyond traits such as responsibility, neuroticism and affability, and take into account the other factors that are described in the model of the Five Factors (Big Five).