Personality traits and intelligence predict academic school grades

Learning and Individual Differences

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 28-33

  Furnham, Adrian ^a   Monsen, Jeremy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Academic performance; Intelligence; Personality traits; School grades

Indexed keywords

EID: 57249084255     PISSN: 10416080     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.lindif.2008.02.001     Document Type: Article

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