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    Academic self-concept
    (UMT.Lahore, 2021) AQSA NASIR; ALISHBA SALEEM
    The aim of the current study was to investigate the relationship between Academic Self-concept and Career Development Attitude among university students. It was hypothesized that there is likely to be a positive relationship between Academic Self-concept and Career Development Attitude. Personality traits are likely to mediate the relationship between Academic Self concept and Career Development Attitude. The sample of 161 final-year university students (men=82, women=79) were drawn from different universities of Lahore. Assessment measures used in the study for measuring Academic Self-concept, Personality traits and Career Development Attitude are Academic Self-concept scale (Liu et al., 2005), Brief HEXACO Inventory (de Vries, 2013) and Career Development Inventory (Creed & Patton, 2004) respectively. The results of Pearson product moment correlation analysis revealed that Academic Self-concept had a significant positive relationship with Career Development Attitude. Moreover, Academic Self-concept was a significant predictor of Career Development Attitude. Multiple Hierarchical Regression analysis was conducted to determine mediating role of HEXACO Personality traits for the relationship between Academic Self-concept and Career Development Attitude and its results showed that among HEXACO traits, Emotionality and Openness to Experience were significant positive and negative mediators respectively. Sobel test confirmed Openness to Experience as the mediator. The study concluded that Academic Self-concept not only had a positive relationship with Career Development Attitude, but also positively predicted it. Openness to Experience played the role of a positive mediator between the relationship of Academic Self-concept and Career Development Attitude. This study has implications in the field of educational and career counseling as teachers and counselors play a prominent role in polishing personality traits of students, benefitting them in establishing an elevated self-concept in academics, eventually facilitating them to build better careers in future; Interventions at government level in policymaking in this regard are also stressed upon.