Achievement-relevant personality: Relations with the Big Five and validation of an efficient instrument

Learning and Individual Differences

Volumn 32, Issue , 2014, Pages 26-39

  Briley, Daniel A ^a   Domiteaux, Matthew ^b   Tucker Drob, Elliot M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Academic achievement; Achievement relevant personality; Approaches to learning; Big Five; Effort; Intellectual investment

Indexed keywords

EID: 84897937078     PISSN: 10416080     EISSN: 18733425     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.lindif.2014.03.010     Document Type: Article

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