An assessment of the personality needs of first year students of the college of teacher education of cagayan state university

Personality reflects youth's perceptual orientation and the level of needs on which they focus their attention and energy. It is believed that youth are less likely to achieve their full potential if they are distracted from fulfilling self-actualization by pre-occupation with other non-essential needs. They have unique mixture of needs, some inborn, some learned, which motivate them to think and behave as they do. Thus meeting personality needs of the youth is equated with fulfilling their self-actualization which could lead to attainment of the University goal, vision and mission. This descriptive-correlational study determined the personality needs of first year college of teacher education students of Cagayan State University. Student's personality needs were assessed through the Edwards Personal Preference (EPPS) by Allen Edwards. Furthermore, the relatively independent variables of personality needs such as achievement, deference, order, intraception, nurturance, change, exhibition, autonomy, abasement, heterosexuality, aggression, succorance, dominance an d affiliation were measured using the same instrument (EPPS). Profile data were treated using the simple frequency and percentage, personality needs scores using the mean. Inferences were tested using the T-test for independent samples, Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) and Chi-square Tests. Findings revealed that majority of the students were rated highest on “achievement” needs. Moreover, student's age, year level, sex, birth order, religion and socio-economic status do not significantly relate with their personality needs.