The Big Five personality traits, learning styles, and academic achievement

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 51, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 472-477

  Komarraju, Meera ^a   Karau, Steven J ^a   Schmeck, Ronald R ^a   Avdic, Alen ^a  

^a SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Academic achievement; Big Five; Conscientiousness; Elaborative processing; Learning styles; Openness; Reflective; Synthesis analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 79959351547     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2011.04.019     Document Type: Article

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