Conscientiousness and self-motivation as mutually compensatory predictors of university-level GPA

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 47, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 817-822

  Cheng, Wen ^a   Ickes, William ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT ARLINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Academic performance; Conscientiousness; Moderated multiple regression; Self motivation

Indexed keywords

EID: 69849086660     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2009.06.029     Document Type: Article

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