Personality and school performance: Incremental validity of self- and peer-ratings over intelligence

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 41, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 131-142

  Bratko, Denis ^a   Chamorro Premuzic, Tomas ^b   Saks, Zrnka ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZAGREB   (Croatia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Big five; Intelligence; Peer ratings; Personality traits; School performance

Indexed keywords

EID: 33646203656     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2005.12.015     Document Type: Article

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