Academic achievement is important to individuals for personal accomplishment, peer recognition, high school accomplishments, college accomplishments, and future employment. Typically, intelligence and general ability come to mind when thinking of academic achievement. Evidence has shown there is a high correlation between intelligence and academic achievement. Prior achievement is a good predictor of achievement. Good grades and are good indicators of academic success but personality plays an important role as well (Ahammer & Schaie, 1970; Hogan & Weiss, 1974; Spengler, Brunner, Martin, & Ludtke, 2016). Research has investigated cognitive predictors (intelligence, ability) of academic success but it has also investigated noncognitive predictors, …show more content…
Different psychologist has tried to coin personality and make a measurement that captures all aspects of personality. However, each theorist has looked at personality from different views and angles. Giving the field of personality many different measurements. This resulted in inconsistent findings and methodological problems. This problem as contributed to the quality of personality research and academic achievement. Personality measures were not designed to predict academic achievement unlike intelligence test (Cervone & Pervin, 2016; Oakland, 1969; Poropat, 2009). Predictive power of personality on academic achievement has no correlation with intelligence or cognitive ability (Noftle & Robins, 2007). The measurement used by each research sample may be different or now outdated. However, the researchers used the most adequate personality measurement for their specific time. These measurements will differ upon time of …show more content…
Each letter stands for a trait. Openness to experience is being open to feelings, new things, to actions, to ideas, and values. Conscientiousness is task oriented, goal oriented, persistent, organized, and dependable. Extraversion is interpersonal interaction with traits of assertiveness, cheerfulness, and sociability. Agreeableness is also an interpersonal with traits of likeability, trusting, cooperative, tolerant, and courteous. Neuroticism is emotional stability or lack of. Traits are irritability, sadness, anxiety, and impulsivity (Cervone & Pervin, 2016; Poorthuis, Thomaes, Denissen, van Aken, Orobio de Castro, 2014; Trapmann, Hell, Hirn, & Schuler,
Tough explains their analysis and conclusions, by which he reiterates, “… high school grades reveal much more than mastery of content. They reveal qualities of motivation and perseverance - as well as the presence of good study habits and time management skills - that tell us a great deal about the chances that a student with complete a college program” (Tough 153). As apparent in the above text, non-cognitive abilities such as motivation and perseverance are key predictors to the completion of a college degree. In essence, the researchers suggest that the increase in college dropouts is associated with an absence of these character
According to Wente, many educators are invested the notion that hard work and perseverance are the most critical factors to success. However, a recent study conducted in the United Kingdom has concluded that even though academic success is not solely dependent upon intelligence, the non-cognitive
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In today’s culture psychologist, sociologist, and scientist investigate several types of personalities. Personality is the pattern of behavior, though process, emotions, and reactions to the people that surround us on daily basis. Several test have been developed for testing personalities. Some test can be simple and short while others lengthy and complicated. Scholars demonstrated knowledge about personalities looking back many thousands of years. The Greeks published a well documented history in profiling people according to personality traits. Two interesting character personalities are conformist type personality and manipulative type personality.
Our book was divided into different chapters on various theorists and explained the major theories of personality that were proposed by the different psychologists. One of the theories that we learned about was the trait theories. Gordan Allport introduced the trait theory and his theory suggested that individual personalities are primarily composed of broad dispositions’. Eysenck’s three dimensions of Personality was also a part of the trait theory. Eysenck developed that model of personality upon three universal trails. And at last, the trait theory had the Big five dimensions which proposed that there are give basic dimensions of personality. One of the four conclusions in our textbook suggested that “until more unambiguous empirical research is available, the best one can do is to evaluate the various theories personally, and to accept concepts that make sense and reject those that do not”(531).
Do we ever think of past experiences or past events and wonder if they had any influence on our personalities? Whether or not that day affected the way that we are today? We are indeed most vulnerable to various impacts in our childhoods. In fact, Deborah Serani, Psychology Doctor said: “It can be argued that personality actually begins before birth, with each parent’s genetics influencing the development of temperament -- a behavioural response style. After birth, a child’s prewired temperament, personal, and social experiences will set the stage for personality development.” Until we are 7 years old, our personalities should be fairly developed. Everything that occurred throughout these years contributed to form our behaviours and reactions
With personality being thought to make up the key components of how we think, feel and behave, it can be seen that personality is of importance to emotion is felt (Burger, 2011). With the completion of two personality tests the discrepancies and similarities in my results will be analysed and reflected upon in terms of how this affects not only my emotions but how this then impacts on my practice as a social worker.
(1997). McRae et al. (1997) attempted to find if the Five-Factor Model was a universal constant in all cultures. They also attempted to see if cultural views would change how the five traits were viewed. The researchers collected data from 6 different translations of the Revised NEO Personality Inventory, this inventory looks for universal trait dimensions in a variety of languages. These 6 translations were then compared to the American counterpart. It was found that while some cultures did differ slightly in their view of the five traits found in the Five-Factor Model in comparison to Americans, the traits were still universal. All six translations found the big five traits of extraversion, agreeableness, conscientiousness, neuroticism and opens to experience to be
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Theorists’ in this branch of psychology have not agreed on a specific definition for personality, as one theory is an onset of another. Nevertheless, the different theoretical approach...
The personality of the human brain can be a very curious thing to most. Over years of study, psychologists still debate and question how personality actually works. However, the theories of personality have been boiled down to just four major theories. Psychoanalytic, humanistic, trait, and social-cognitive. While none of these are perfect, they all have certain distinguishing characteristics, advantages, and drawbacks, that differ them from each other.
Academic success is becoming increasingly important in today’s society because most occupations now require a degree of some kind before a job applicant will even be considered. For that reason, academic performance has a considerable impact on a student’s life and whether or not he or she is able to accomplish future career goals. There are many factors that can influence academic performance of a college student, including student personality traits and life circumstances. Life circumstances are sometimes out of a student’s control, but if a student was able to recognize a quality of his or her personality that was inhibiting academic performance, then he or she could possibly make an effort to