Self-Discipline Outdoes IQ in Predicting Academic Performance of Adolescents

By Angela L. Duckworth, Martin E. P. Seligman. Psychology Science, 2005

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Subfields: Applied Psychology, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology

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Rethinking College Students' Self-Regulation and Sustained Attention:Does Text Messaging During Class Influence Cognitive Learning? (2012, methodology): “Grounded in the theory of self-regulated learning, studies (e.g., Duckworth & Seligman, 2005; Pintrich & De Groot, 1990; Tangney, Baumeister, & Boone, 2004) have shown that self-regulation is positively related to students’ cognitive learning, meaning that self-regulated (self-controlled) students…”
Investigating an alternate form of the cognitive reflection test (2016, background): “…interest in thinking dispositions, and this interest is spreading beyond the heuristics-and-biases tradition to domains like developmental psychology (Toplak, West & Stanovich, 2014b; Blackwell, Trzesniewski & Dweck, 2007; Duckworth & Seligman, 2005; Reyna, Chapman, Dougherty & Confrey, 2012).”
Positive education: positive psychology and classroom interventions (2009, positive): “Self‐discipline is twice as good a predictor of high school grades as IQ (Duckworth & Seligman, 2005 ).”
Advancing the Science and Practice of Social and Emotional Learning (2016, background): “The second demonstrated the relationship between some or all of these skills and postsecondary and vocational success (Deming, 2015; Duckworth & Seligman, 2005; Fergusson, Boden, & Horwood, 2013).”
Using Goals to Motivate College Students: Theory and Evidence From Field Experiments (2020, positive): “First, evidence from other educational environments suggests that men have less self-control than women (e.g., Duckworth & Seligman, 2005; Buechel, Mechtenberg, & Petersen, 2014; Duckworth et al., 2015).”
Whatever Happened to Self-Control? A Proposal for Integrating Notions From Trait Self-Control Studies Into State Self-Control Research (2017, neutral): “…body of evidence exists showing that trait self-control is associated with many positive outcomes in life, such as academic or work performance (Duckworth & Seligman, 2005; W. Mischel, Shoda, & Peake, 1988), maintaining satisfying relationships (Tangney et al., 2004), health (Moffitt et al.,…”
Promoting child and youth resilience by strengthening home and school environments: A literature review (2020, background): “…self-awareness and confidence fostered by the programs leads to persistence in the presence of challenges (Aronson, 2002), and that a greater ability to manage stress and organize themselves allows for greater student learning and better grades (Duckworth & Seligman, 2005; Elliot & Dweck, 2007).”
Training Engagement Theory: A Multilevel Perspective on the Effectiveness of Work-Related Training (2018, background): “…is a major determinant of goal prioritization and is negatively related to learning performance because impulsive employees are continually bogged down in immediately gratifying tasks, causing them to irrationally delay working toward training goals (Duckworth & Seligman, 2005; Steel, 2007, 2010).”
The Role of Noncognitive Skills in Explaining Cognitive Test Scores (2006, result): “, Duckworth and Seligman 2005; Heckman and Rubinstein 2001), and people with these traits generally perform better on the cognitive test (Table 2). However, the response to incentives is twofold. First, it might be the case that people with successful characteristics respond stronger to incentives b”
A Meta-Analysis of the Convergent Validity of Self-Control Measures (2011, background): “In a real choice delay task, subjects make an actual (i.e., not hypothetical) choice between a small, immediate reward and a larger, delayed reward (e.g., Duckworth & Seligman, 2005; Mischel, 1958).”
Reported self-control is not meaningfully associated with inhibition-related executive function: A Bayesian analysis (2018, result): “Similar composite scores have previously demonstrated higher utility in predicting the ability to select between competing impulses than single measures (Duckworth & Seligman, 2006).”
Debt out of control: The links between self-control, compulsive buying, and real debts (2015, background): “High levels of self-control are also associated with high interpersonal skills (Tangney et al., 2004), better grades among university students (e.g., Duckworth & Seligman, 2005), and lower levels of stress in university freshmen (Achtziger & Bayer, 2013).”
Development, evaluation, and multinational dissemination of the triple P-Positive Parenting Program. (2012, background): “…academic achievement, income, savings behavior, physical and mental health, better interpersonal relationships, and happiness (e.g., Aspinwall 1998, Duckworth & Seligman 2005, Fredrickson & Joiner 2002, Mischel et al. 1988, Moffitt et al. 2011, Shoda et al. 1990, Tangney et al. 2004, Tsukayama et…”