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PERSONALITY CORRELATES OF OVER‐ACHIEVEMENT AND UNDER‐ACHIEVEMENT
Author(s) -
BEHRENS L. T.,
VER P. E.
Publication year - 1978
Publication title -
british journal of educational psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.557
H-Index - 95
eISSN - 2044-8279
pISSN - 0007-0998
DOI - 10.1111/j.2044-8279.1978.tb03015.x
Subject(s) - psychology , personality , test (biology) , need for achievement , personality test , achievement test , social psychology , developmental psychology , psychometrics , standardized test , mathematics education , test validity , paleontology , biology
S ummary . 292 Canadian Grade 7 students were given a three‐part group intelligence test, a two‐part mathematics test, and a three‐part English test. Scores on these tests, together with teachers' grades for these subjects, were compared with personality questionnaire measures of aggression, positive and negative self‐concept, and a sentence completion test of attitudes to school and other areas. Substantial correlations were obtained between the ability and personality variables, with marked sex differences. However, when multiple correlations were calculated between intelligence and personality variables as predictors of mathematics and English achievement criteria, the beta weights for personality variables were mostly small and relatively inconsistent.