Conscientiousness, achievement striving, and intelligence as performance predictors in a sample of German psychology students: Always a linear relationship?

Learning and Individual Differences

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 288-292

  Ziegler, Matthias ^a   Knogler, Maximilian ^b   Bühner, Markus ^b  

^a HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Academic success; Achievement striving; Conscientiousness; Intelligence; Moderation; Personality

Indexed keywords

EID: 63649124113     PISSN: 10416080     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.lindif.2009.02.001     Document Type: Article

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