Intellectual competence and academic performance: Preliminary validation of a model

Intelligence

Volumn 36, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 564-573

  Chamorro Premuzic, Tomas ^a   Arteche, Adriane ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Academic performance; Intellectual competence; Intelligence; Personality; Self assessed intelligence

Indexed keywords

EID: 53849138033     PISSN: 01602896     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.intell.2008.01.001     Document Type: Article

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