Exploring the relationship between individual characteristics and argumentative discourse styles: the role of achievement goals and personality traits

Disciplinary and Interdisciplinary Science Education Research

Table 5 Correlation between the Big Five personality and discourse style

	Deliberative argumentation	Disputative argumentation	Quick consensus-seeking
Extraversion	.183	.796**	−.165
Openness	.761**	−.042	.417*
Agreeableness	.650**	−.294	.503**
Conscientiousness	−.101	.299	−.299
Neuroticism	−0.54	−.335	.525**