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Personality traits and academic performance: Correcting self-assessed traits with vignettes
In this study, we investigate whether Conscientiousness, Emotional Stability and Risk Preference relate to student performance in higher education. We employ anchoring vignettes to correct for heterogeneous scale use in these non-cognitive skills. Our data are gathered among first-year students at a...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7993818/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33765063 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0248629 |
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author | Coenen, Johan Golsteyn, Bart H. H. Stolp, Tom Tempelaar, Dirk |
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description | In this study, we investigate whether Conscientiousness, Emotional Stability and Risk Preference relate to student performance in higher education. We employ anchoring vignettes to correct for heterogeneous scale use in these non-cognitive skills. Our data are gathered among first-year students at a Dutch university. The results show that Conscientiousness is positively related to student performance, but the estimates are strongly biased upward if we use the uncorrected variables. We do not find significant relationships for Emotional Stability but find that the point estimates are larger when using the uncorrected variables. Measured Risk Preference is negatively related to student performance, yet this is fully explained by heterogeneous scale use. These results indicate the importance of using more objective measurements of personality traits. |
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spelling | pubmed-79938182021-04-05 Personality traits and academic performance: Correcting self-assessed traits with vignettes Coenen, Johan Golsteyn, Bart H. H. Stolp, Tom Tempelaar, Dirk PLoS One Research Article In this study, we investigate whether Conscientiousness, Emotional Stability and Risk Preference relate to student performance in higher education. We employ anchoring vignettes to correct for heterogeneous scale use in these non-cognitive skills. Our data are gathered among first-year students at a Dutch university. The results show that Conscientiousness is positively related to student performance, but the estimates are strongly biased upward if we use the uncorrected variables. We do not find significant relationships for Emotional Stability but find that the point estimates are larger when using the uncorrected variables. Measured Risk Preference is negatively related to student performance, yet this is fully explained by heterogeneous scale use. These results indicate the importance of using more objective measurements of personality traits. Public Library of Science 2021-03-25 /pmc/articles/PMC7993818/ /pubmed/33765063 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0248629 Text en © 2021 Coenen et al http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Coenen, Johan Golsteyn, Bart H. H. Stolp, Tom Tempelaar, Dirk Personality traits and academic performance: Correcting self-assessed traits with vignettes |
title | Personality traits and academic performance: Correcting self-assessed traits with vignettes |
title_full | Personality traits and academic performance: Correcting self-assessed traits with vignettes |
title_fullStr | Personality traits and academic performance: Correcting self-assessed traits with vignettes |
title_full_unstemmed | Personality traits and academic performance: Correcting self-assessed traits with vignettes |
title_short | Personality traits and academic performance: Correcting self-assessed traits with vignettes |
title_sort | personality traits and academic performance: correcting self-assessed traits with vignettes |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7993818/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33765063 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0248629 |
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