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Objectives. This master's thesis aims to examine motivation, personality and career decision making. The theory is based on Ryan and Deci's (2002) Self-Determination Theory (SDT) and Goldberg's Big Five theory. The theory also includes the concept of career decision making. In SDT, motivation is divided into three parts; intrinsic and extrinsic motivation, as well as amotivation. The central idea of the theory is a continuum between intrinsic and extrinsic motivation, instead of juxtaposing them. The Big Five theory includes the idea of Big Five Personality traits; extraversion, neuroticism, openness, agreeableness and conscientiousness. The theory emphasizes the connection between motivation, personality and career decision making. Nevertheless, there is a lack of specific evidence and previous studies to support these connections. Thus further investigation is required. Development of the motivation and personality indicators came to be a significant part of the research. These indicators are used to examine the quality of teacher student's motivation, personality and career decision making, as well as the correlation between motivation and personality. Methods. The study is a quantitative study. The data was collected via electronic questionnaire and send to a group of teacher students in the University of Helsinki during fall 2014. The questionnaire contains a motivation scale, personality scale and claims related to career decision making. 120 students answered the questionnaire. The questionnaires were analyzed by using SPSS-program. The analysis methods used include factor analysis, test that compare means, t-tests, analysis of variance and correlations. Results and conclusions. The study shows that the motivation and personality scales need further developing, since the scales don't function as presumed. The highest mean of motivation was found in a part of extrinsic motivation named "regulation through identification". This was followed by intrinsic motivation variables which indicate that the teacher students are mostly intrinsically motivated. Student teacher's personality traits are split evenly among all traits mentioned. Nevertheless, agreeableness has the highest mean and neutoticism the lowest. Based on the study the teacher students are thoughtful, social, dutiful and systematic. There was only a weak linear correlation between motivation and personality. The certainty of teacher student's career decision making is high.