Objective/Meaning  The study travel in rural areas is a new driving force to promote the rural revitalization. There is a certain relationship between the personality traits of middle school students and their participation in the study travel. It has a certain guiding significance for the development of study travel to clarify the relationship between the two.

  Methods/Procedures  In this paper, the first grade middle school students who participated in the study travel in a research practice base in Jinjiang City were selected as the investigation objects. The relevant data were obtained through literature review, field investigation and questionnaire survey, and with the help of SPSS 22.0 software for the data analysis, the relationship between different personality traits of middle school students and their participation in the study travel was explored.

  Results/Conclusions  The results of factor analysis showed that the participation of middle school students in the study travel included three dimensions: behavioral participation, cognitive participation and emotional participation. The results of the stepwise regression analysis of personality traits on the participation of middle school students in study travel showed that: the extraversion, agreeableness, conscientiousness and openness of the big five personalities had positive effects on the behavioral participation of study travel, while the neuroticism had no significant effect on the behavioral participation of study travel; conscientiousness and openness had positive effects on the cognitive participation of study travel, while the neuroticism had negative effect on the cognitive participation of study travel; extraversion and agreeableness positively affected the emotional participation of study travel, while the neuroticism negatively affected the emotional participation of study travel. Accordingly, some suggestions were put forward from the aspects of improving the students’ behavioral participation, cognitive participation and emotional participation.