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The incremental validity of intellectual curiosity and confidence for predicting academic performance in advanced tertiary students
- Source :
- Personality and Individual Differences. 116:51-56
- Publication Year :
- 2017
- Publisher :
- Elsevier BV, 2017.
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Abstract
- Intellectual curiosity is a topic of research interest and often predicts academic performance (AP). However, evidence for its incremental validity, which the present study aimed to assess, is mixed. Participants were 216 (52 males, 151 females, 13 not reported) third-year psychology students (age M = 23.0 yrs) who completed tests of fluid and crystallised intelligence, five-factor model (FFM) personality, intellectual curiosity, and confidence. AP was obtained from university transcripts. No incremental validity above intelligence and FFM personality was found for measures of curiosity or confidence. In all analyses, Conscientiousness was the most substantial predictor of AP. Future research may focus on the conditions in which curiosity or confidence predict AP.
- Subjects :
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05 social sciences
Intellectual curiosity
050109 social psychology
Conscientiousness
050105 experimental psychology
Developmental psychology
Investment theory
Personality
Curiosity
0501 psychology and cognitive sciences
Psychology
Social psychology
Incremental validity
General Psychology
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Details
- ISSN :
- 01918869
- Volume :
- 116
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Personality and Individual Differences
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi...........9ec6060fbe82cbaf5b89ff2015d2a42b