When academic achievement (also) reflects personality: Using the personality-achievement saturation hypothesis (PASH) to explain differential associations between achievement measures and personality traits.

Personality, Grit and Sporting Achievement

The role of personality traits in sporting achievement has generated interests among sport researchers and practitioners, however, studies on the relationship between sporting achievement and personality traits have yielded no clear evidence of a cause effect relationship. Instead, psychological skills and attitudes have shown evidence of influence over sporting achievement. This study explored...

Hope uniquely predicts objective academic achievement above intelligence, personality, and previous academic achievement

0092-6566/$ see front matter 2010 Elsevier Inc. A doi:10.1016/j.jrp.2010.05.009 * Corresponding author. Fax: +44 (0) 116 229 7196 E-mail address: [email protected] (J. Maltby). A 3-year longitudinal study explored whether the two-dimensional model of trait hope predicted degree scores after considering intelligence, personality, and previous academic achievement. A sample of 129 respondents (52 ma...

The Impact of Peer Personality on Academic Achievement

Gender differences in academic achievement: The mediating role of personality

Article history: Received 1 October 2015 Received in revised form 23 December 2015 Accepted 7 January 2016 Available online 15 January 2016 Research has shown pervasive gender differences in academic achievement. Because both genders present similar global intellectual ability levels, interest has arisen concerning the role of non-intellectual factors in explaining these differences. In this st...

True grit and genetics: Predicting academic achievement from personality.

Grit-perseverance and passion for long-term goals-has been shown to be a significant predictor of academic success, even after controlling for other personality factors. Here, for the first time, we use a U.K.-representative sample and a genetically sensitive design to unpack the etiology of Grit and its prediction of academic achievement in comparison to well-established personality traits. Fo...