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Bipp, Tanja; Steinmayr, Ricarda; Spinath, Birgit – Learning and Individual Differences, 2012
Building on the notion that motivation energizes and directs resources in achievement situations, we argue that goal orientations affect perceptions of own intelligence and that the effect of goals on performance is partly mediated by self-estimates of intelligence. Studies 1 (n = 89) and 2 (n = 165) investigated the association of goal…
Descriptors: Intelligence, Goal Orientation, Student Motivation, Psychometrics
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Pool, Lorraine Dacre; Qualter, Pamela – Learning and Individual Differences, 2012
Emotional intelligence continues to receive a substantial amount of attention from researchers who argue that it is an important predictor of health, wellbeing and in particular, work-related outcomes. Emotional self-efficacy, which is concerned with beliefs in one's emotional functioning capabilities, has recently been shown to be important in…
Descriptors: Employment Potential, Emotional Intelligence, Intervention, Self Efficacy
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Ziegler, Matthias; Knogler, Maximilian; Buhner, Markus – Learning and Individual Differences, 2009
Studies on the interface between cognitive ability (intelligence) and personality in the prediction of academic performance have yielded mixed results so far. Especially an interaction between conscientiousness (and its facet achievement striving) and intelligence has been investigated. The hypothesis is that conscientiousness enhances the impact…
Descriptors: Intelligence, Academic Achievement, Intelligence Tests, Program Effectiveness
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de Koning, Bjorn B.; Loyens, Sofie M. M.; Rikers, Remy M. J. P.; Smeets, Guus; van der Molen, Henk T. – Learning and Individual Differences, 2012
This study investigated the simultaneous impact of demographic, personality, intelligence, and (prior) study performance factors on students' academic achievement in a three-year academic problem-based psychology program. Information regarding students' gender, age, nationality, pre-university education, high school grades, Big Five personality…
Descriptors: Personality Traits, Intelligence, Learning Activities, Academic Achievement
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Christopher, Andrew N.; Furnham, Adrian; Batey, Mark; Martin, G. Neil; Koenig, Cynthia S.; Doty, Kristin – Learning and Individual Differences, 2010
To learn if Protestant ethic endorsement predicted intelligence controlling for the big five personality factors, 364 college students from England and the United States completed a 65-item multifaceted work ethic endorsement measure, the 50-item Wonderlic Personnel Test, and a 60-item measure of the big five personality factors. A hierarchical…
Descriptors: Protestants, Occupational Tests, Personality, Foreign Countries
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Chamorro-Premuzic, Tomas; Ahmetoglu, Gorkan; Furnham, Adrian – Learning and Individual Differences, 2008
This study attempted a hierarchical integration of several dispositional determinants of test anxiety (TA) [Sarason, I.G. (1984). "Stress, anxiety and cognitive interference: Reactions to tests." "Journal of Personality and Social Psychology," 46, 929-938.], namely the Big Five personality traits [Costa, P.T. Jr., & McCrae,…
Descriptors: Personality Traits, Individual Differences, Psychological Evaluation, Structural Equation Models