Does homework behavior mediate the relation between personality and academic performance?

Learning and Individual Differences

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 203-208

  Lubbers, Miranda J ^a,b   Van Der Werf, Margaretha P C ^b   Kuyper, Hans ^b   Hendriks, A A Jolijn ^b  

^a UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Academic performance; Homework behavior; Personality traits; Secondary education

Indexed keywords

EID: 77952742054     PISSN: 10416080     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.lindif.2010.01.005     Document Type: Article

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