ERIC Number: EJ814956
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2008
Pages: 10
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ISSN: ISSN-0160-2896
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Intellectual Competence and Academic Performance: Preliminary Validation of a Model
Chamorro-Premuzic, Tomas; Arteche, Adriane
Intelligence, v36 n6 p564-573 Nov-Dec 2008
The present study provides a preliminary empirical test of [Chamorro-Premuzic, T., & Furnham, A. (2004). A possible model to understand the personality-intelligence interface. "British Journal of Psychology," 95, 249-264], [Chamorro-Premuzic, T., & Furnham, A. (2006a). Intellectual competence and the intelligent personality: A third way in differential psychology. "Review of General Psychology," 10, 251-267]) model of intellectual competence, which conceptualized an integrative framework for understanding the ability and non-ability determinants of academic performance (AP). Specifically, we set out to test whether Neuroticism and Extraversion affect self-assessed intelligence (SAI); whether SAI mediates the effects of Neuroticism and Extraversion on AP; and whether Openness (positively) and Conscientiousness (negatively) mediate the effects of gf on crystallized ability (gc) and AP. Sex differences were also examined. Using structural equation modelling and analyzing 4-year longitudinal data from a sample of 473 UK university students (316 men and 157 women), wide support was found for the model. Theoretical and applied implications are discussed in relation to the non-ability and ability determinants of individual differences in educational achievement. (Contains 2 figures and 2 tables.)
Descriptors: Intelligence, Academic Achievement, Models, Validity, Self Evaluation (Individuals), Correlation, Neurosis, Extraversion Introversion, Cognitive Ability, Cognitive Measurement, Gender Differences, Longitudinal Studies, Foreign Countries, College Students, Ability Identification, Intelligence Differences
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
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Language: English
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