Academic Performance and Friendship Relation in Students: Role ofPersonality

There have been many studies about personality role in students’ studies in recent years. However, these studies do not provide a comprehensive model. In addition, statistical researchers have just attended the relationship between each individual’s personality and his academic performance without considering the impact of people around him on his educationalachievements. In this research, a social simulation has been propounded which shows the impact of an individual’s personality and other people around him in his academic performance using multi-agent systems. Each individual in the simulation has five personality factors which came from the theory of “big five personality”. The simulation is prepared as a tool with a user interface to set parameters and see the result of each simulation. The parameters have been considered by experts to be replaced during the test phase. Data used for simulation was taken with the help of the “big five personality” questionnaire distributed among 35 second-year computer students in Iran University of Science and Technology. Reliability and validity of questions have been previously reviewed by experts. Simulation was executed on the data and the results had been prepared using each student’s personality and adding the friendship links between them. It has been shown that taking into account each student’s friends’ personality can improve the simulation results.