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dc.contributor.authorRoemer, Lenade
dc.contributor.authorLechner, Clemensde
dc.contributor.authorRammstedt, Beatricede
dc.date.accessioned2023-02-10T11:34:42Z
dc.date.available2023-02-10T11:34:42Z
dc.date.issued2022de
dc.identifier.issn2079-3200de
dc.identifier.urihttps://www.ssoar.info/ssoar/handle/document/85147
dc.description.abstractThe Big Five personality traits are established predictors of school grades. However, the mechanisms underlying these associations are not yet well understood. Effects of personality on grades might arise because behavioral tendencies facilitate learning and increase subject-specific competencies. Alternatively, personality effects on grades might be independent of cognitive competencies and reflect otherwise valued behaviors or teachers' grading practices. In the current study, we drew on large-scale data of 7th and 9th graders in Germany to explore the extent to which personality predicted grades even after accounting for competencies. Controlling for competencies and other key covariates, we cross-sectionally and longitudinally examined personality-grade associations across different school subjects, grade levels, and school types. Results indicate that the predictive power of personality is largely independent of subject-specific and general cognitive competencies. The largest effects emerged for conscientiousness. For openness, associations with grades partly overlapped with competencies, suggesting that openness may operate by fostering competencies. Overall, our results suggest that the associations between personality and grades unfold mostly independently of course mastery. This finding underlines the socioemotional value of personality in the classroom and encourages a more fine-grained view of the interplay between personality, competencies, classroom behavior, and grades.de
dc.languageende
dc.subject.ddcPsychologyen
dc.subject.ddcPsychologiede
dc.subject.otherBig Five; German National Education Panel Study (NEPS), Starting Cohort 3, wave 1-6, 2010-2015de
dc.titleBeyond Competencies: Associations between Personality and School Grades Are Largely Independent of Subject-Specific and General Cognitive Competenciesde
dc.description.reviewbegutachtet (peer reviewed)de
dc.description.reviewpeer revieweden
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dc.source.journalJournal of Intelligence
dc.source.volume10de
dc.publisher.countryCHEde
dc.source.issue2de
dc.subject.classozPersönlichkeitspsychologiede
dc.subject.classozPersonality Psychologyen
dc.subject.thesozcompetenceen
dc.subject.thesozPersönlichkeitsmerkmalde
dc.subject.thesozpersonality traitsen
dc.subject.thesozZensurende
dc.subject.thesozKompetenzde
dc.subject.thesozkognitive Fähigkeitde
dc.subject.thesozschool gradeen
dc.subject.thesozpersonalityen
dc.subject.thesozSchulerfolgde
dc.subject.thesozcognitive abilityen
dc.subject.thesozschool successen
dc.subject.thesozacademic achievementen
dc.subject.thesozPersönlichkeitde
dc.subject.thesozSchulleistungde
dc.identifier.urnurn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-85147-7
dc.rights.licenceCreative Commons - Attribution 4.0en
dc.rights.licenceCreative Commons - Namensnennung 4.0de
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dc.type.documentZeitschriftenartikelde
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dc.source.issuetopicSpecial Issue: Intelligence, Competencies, and Learningde
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.3390/jintelligence10020026de
dc.description.pubstatusPublished Versionen
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ssoar.licence.fundGefördert durch die Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Projektnummer 491156185 / Funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG) - Project number 491156185
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