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High-School Students' Need for Cognition, Self-Control Capacity, and School Achievement: Testing a Mediation Hypothesis
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Bertrams, Alex; Dickhauser, Oliver – Learning and Individual Differences, 2009
In the present article, we examine the hypothesis that high-school students' motivation to engage in cognitive endeavors (i.e., their need for cognition; NFC) is positively related to their dispositional self-control capacity. Furthermore, we test the prediction that the relation between NFC and school achievement is mediated by self-control…
Descriptors: Grade Repetition, Academic Achievement, Motivation, High School Students