Personality, cognitive ability, and beliefs about intelligence as predictors of academic performance

Learning and Individual Differences

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 47-64

  Furnham, Adrian ^a   Chamorro Premuzic, Tomas ^a   McDougall, Fiona ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Academic performance; Big Five; Exam marks; Intelligence; Personality

Indexed keywords

EID: 1542634798     PISSN: 10416080     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.lindif.2003.08.002     Document Type: Article

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