The addition of personality measures to ability measures for predicting and understanding school achievement
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Watterson, D. G., Schuerger, J. M., Melnyk, G. I. (1976). The Addition of Personality Measures to Ability Measures for Predicting and Understanding School Achievement. Multivariate Experimental Clinical Research, 2(3), 113-122.
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This study attempts to validate the findings of previous research predicting academic achievement from intelligence measures with the addition of objective personality factors. Regression analysis was used to affirm: (a) better predictions can be made utilizing both personality and intelligence measures than either alone; (b) there appears to be a change across time in the importance of each predictor; and (c) difference achievement areas are best predicted by unique combinations of personality variables.