Abstract

• The primary aim of this study was to examine family relations and personality traits of pre-service teachers from selected Education Colleges. Moreover, the present study was to find out the differences of the family relations and personality traits of pre-service teachers among demographic characteristics (gender and family type). The study adopted a survey research design and employed with a quantitative method. The participants in this study were 796 (male= 383, female =413) pre-service teachers from selected Education Colleges. As the instrument, Inventory of Family Relations (IFR) with 24 items which is developed by Hudson (1982) and Five Factor Model of Personality with 48 items which was developed by Dr. Tom Buchanan (2001). After that, the data were analyzed by using descriptive statistics, independent sample t test and ANOVA test. According to the descriptive statistics, pre-service teachers from selected Education Colleges had satisfactory family relations. The result of independent samples t test showed that there was a significant difference in family relations by gender. In personality, there were significant differences in emotional stability and agreeableness by gender. Furthermore, the result of ANOVA showed that there was a significant difference in family relations by family type. In personality traits, there were significant differences in conscientiousness and agreeableness by family type. The Pearson Product-Moment Correlation result revealed that there were positively significant relationships between family relations and personality traits of openness to experience, extroversion, conscientiousness, emotional stability and agreeableness. Therefore, it could be interpreted that the more the pre-service teachers got the family relations, the better they possessed the favorable personality traits.