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Description: This study examines the ways that civicmindedness (operationalized in this study by two measures: civic efficacy [CE] and service motivation [SM]) are correlated with factors of the five-factor model of personality (McCrae 2009), and how civicmindedness is distributed across disciplines of study. We use data from a survey that was distributed to all undergraduate students who are newly enrolling at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam for the fall 2021 term. We use structural equation modeling to determine the relationships between the five-factors of personality and the measures of civicmindedness as well as descriptive statistics to show differences across demographic groups and disciplines of study.