Predicting school achievement from motivation and personality.
Predicting school achievement from motivation and personality.
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从动机和个性预测学校成绩。
DOI:
10.1024/1010-0652.21.3.207
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发表时间:
2007
影响因子:
2.1
通讯作者:
Birgit Spinath
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作者:
Ricarda Steinmayr;Birgit Spinath
Abstract. The present study aims at comparing the predictive power of motivation and broad personality traits for school performance and contributes to an understanding of the nomological network of personality. A sample of German adolescent students (N = 342 11th and 12th graders, age M = 16.94, SD = .71) gave self-reports of need for achievement, domain-specific ability self-concepts and task values in German and Math as well as the Big Five of personality. Grades in German and mathematics as well as grade-point average served as performance criteria. On a bivariate zero-order level, the motivational constructs showed the hypothesized positive associations with school achievement in Math, German, and GPA. With respect to personality, only Conscientiousness was consistently positively associated with grades, whereas Neuroticism, Extraversion, Openness to Experience, and Agreeableness were either not or weakly associated with one or two out of three performance criteria. Hierarchical and stepwise regressi...
影响因子:
5
作者:
Hair,ElizabethC;Graziano,WilliamG
通讯作者:
Graziano,WilliamG