Home⇛International Journal of Multidisciplinary: Applied Business and Education Research⇛vol. 6 no. 2 (2025)

Personality Traits and Sexual Risk Behaviors: The Moderating Role of Religiosity in Maritime Cadets

Dhuff Mattheus Villanueva Ortiz | Elmer Gonzales De Jose

Discipline: personal development

 

Abstract:

This research explores whether religiosity moderates the link between Big Five personality traits and cadets' sexual risk behaviors. Overall, 474 respondents participated in the study. This number consists of stu-dents taking up Marine Transportation and Marine Engineering stu-dents in a maritime school situated in Metro Manila. They were sur-veyed using the converted electronic version of the Brief Multidimensional Measure of Religiosity and Spirituality (BMMRS), Big Five Personality Factors - 2 (BFI-2), and the Sexual Risks Behaviors Scale. Based on the results, the study found that agreeableness is negatively correlated with sexual risk behavior (r = -.12*, p < .05), suggesting a tendency towards lower engagement in risky sexual behaviors among those with higher levels of agreeableness. Furthermore, this study concluded that religiousness did not moderate the relationship between agreeableness and sexual risk behavior. This suggests that, regardless of whether individuals are highly agreeable, their level of religiousness does not seem to alter the impact of agreeableness on sexual risk behavior.



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