Personality factors in elementary school children: Contributions to academic performance over and above executive functions?

Learning and Individual Differences

Volumn 25, Issue , 2013, Pages 118-125

  Neuenschwander, Regula ^a   Cimeli, Patrizia ^a   Röthlisberger, Marianne ^a   Roebers, Claudia M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Academic performance; Big Five personality factors; Elementary school; Executive functions; Gender differences

Indexed keywords

EID: 84876884507     PISSN: 10416080     EISSN: 18733425     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.lindif.2012.12.006     Document Type: Article

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