Aslan, Sevda2025-01-212025-01-2120212247-63772247-8558https://doi.org/10.51865/JESP.2021.2.13https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12587/25716The aim of this study was to to analyze the relationship between the big five personality traits and adjustment to university by examining the extent to which the self-assessment of Turkish adolescents personality traits predict their adjustment to university. The study group consisted of 168 students: 101 females and 67 males. The study data was collected using The Adjustment to University Life Scale and the Adjective-Based Personality Test (ABPT). The findings of this study revealed that personal adjustment and academic adjustment predicts emotional instability/neuroticism and conscientiousness in a meaningful way. Also, social adjustment predicts agreeableness in a meaningful way. A number of recommendations were then presented based on our study's findings.eninfo:eu-repo/semantics/closedAccessuniversity adjustment; big five; late adolescent; predictionArticle11211412710.51865/JESP.2021.2.13WOS:000744212100013N/A