1. How HEXACO personality traits are involved in school performance of middle school adolescents (10-14 years).
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Sergi I, Ariemma L, Gallucci M, Gnisci A, Marcone R, Perugini M, Senese VP, and Mottola F
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- Humans, Male, Female, Adolescent, Child, Students psychology, Extraversion, Psychological, Italy, Personality physiology, Academic Performance statistics & numerical data
- Abstract
This paper aimed at investigating the relationship between HEXACO personality traits and academic performance in two samples of Italian 10-14 years old middle-school adolescents (N = 714 and N = 1093) using Multilevel Mixed Models. The main results show that: 1) Conscientiousness and Openness to Experience were the most important predictors of school performance, followed by Honesty-Humility; 2) a modest effect was present also for eXtraversion and Emotionality; 3) these influences occurred net of the influence of gender and class and could be generalized to male and female adolescents across 6
th , 7th and 8th grade; 5) Perfectionism, Diligence and Prudence within Conscientiousness, Inquisitiveness within Openness, and Sincerity within Honesty-Humility were the facets more correlated with school performance; 6) results were replicated in two studies. Results are discussed and conclusions are drawn., Competing Interests: Declaration of competing interest None., (Copyright © 2024 The Authors. Published by Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.)- Published
- 2024
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