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This study examined the relationship of the five-factor model of personality (extroversion, agreeableness, conscientiousness, emotional stability, and intellect) to college student adjustment. Using a sample of 200+ undergraduate students at a large public university, it was found that emotional stability correlated positively with goal commitment/institutional attachment. In addition, at a less significant level, agreeableness and extroversion associated positively with academic and social adjustment, while conscientiousness associated negatively with these two indices of college student adjustment. (Contains 32 references and 1 table.) (Author) Reproductions supplied by EDRS are the best that can be made from the original document. cs. oc o