This study examines the relationship between the Big Five personality traits and motivation for sports achievement among youth badminton players. The research aims to identify how personality traits influence athletes’ drive for success and tendency to avoid failure, ultimately shaping their competitive performance. The hypothesis envisioned using a descriptive-correlational design to collect data from 51 players based on the use of validated psychological scales such as Big Five Personality Traits Scale and Sports Achievement Motivation Scale. Personality traits were assessed on their effect on achievement motivation using statistical analyses such as Pearson correlation, multiple regression. The relation between extraversion, openness, and conscientiousness with achievement drive is found to be positive and neuroticism has negative effect on success motivation and increases in failure avoidance. Pearson’s correlation: Multiple regression analysis again confirmed that the personality traits account for over 63% of the variance in the achievement motivation, establishing their predictive power. The motivation levels of the players with different levels of neuroticism were found to be significantly different with low neuroticism athletes having higher success motivation. With these findings, it is hoped that coaches, sports psychologists, and talent development programs will develop personality based motivated strategies that would increase in athletic performance. Future research should address the longitudinal effects of personality and motivation on mental resilience training and external factors of the coach’s style in terms of shaping the motivation of the athlete. Sports professionals integrate in psychological assessment in training programs allow them to make interventions with the best combination of motivation and competitive success.
