The Effect of Personality and Precollege Characteristics on First-Year Activities and Academic Performance

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Impact of degree program satisfaction on the persistence of college students (2007, result): “Our finding that prior ability affects academic accomplishment is in line with findings reported by for example De Jong et al. (1997), Bauer and Liang (2003) , Lindblom-Yla¨ nne et al. (1999) and Van der Hulst and Jansen (2002).”
Mental toughness in education: exploring relationships with attainment, attendance, behaviour and peer relationships (2015, unknown): “Conscientiousness is known to be a good predictor of academic achievement (e.g. Bauer & Liang, 2003; O’Connor & Paunonen, 2007; Poropat, 2009).”
Big Five personality predictors of post-secondary academic performance (2007, background): “Extraversion has been negatively correlated with GPA (Bauer & Liang, 2003; Furnham et al., 2003; Goff & Ackerman, 1992), and grades on introductory psychology exams (Busato et al., 2000; Hair & Hampson, 2006) and statistics exams (Furnham & Chamorro-Premuzic, 2004).”