Predicting academic success with the big 5 rated from different points of view: Self-rated, other rated and faked

European Journal of Personality

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 341-355

  Ziegler, Matthias ^a   Danay, Erik ^a   Schölmerich, Franziska ^a   Bühner, Markus ^b  

^a HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

Author keywords

Abilities and aptitudes; Achievement; Educational psychology; Faking; Learning and memory; Personality scales and inventories; Specific aptitude theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 77956128053     PISSN: 08902070     EISSN: 10990984     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/per.753     Document Type: Article

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