Abstract
The purposes of this study were to construct a questionnaire on views of learning, and examine the relationships between the views and personality traits. Seventy-five vocational-school students completed a questionnaire on views on learning, which consisted of 18 items. Factor analysis of the data found three factors: learning as the basis of life, negative thoughts on learning, and freeness of learning. Then, 109 college students filled out the questionnaire and the Yatabe-Guilford Personality Inventory. Some of the significant correlations were as follows: (1) Learning as the basis of life negatively correlated with "Depression" and "Lack of Cooperativeness." (2) Negative thoughts on learning correlated negatively with "Depression," "Inferiority," "Neurosis," and "Lack of Cooperativeness," and positively with "General Activity," "Dominance," and "Social extroversion." Relationships between views of learning and personality were discussed.
