Confidence: A better predictor of academic achievement than self-efficacy, self-concept and anxiety?

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Confidence: the best non-cognitive predictor of academic achievement? (2014, methodology): “Essentially, the same result was obtained with another sample of Singaporean students and a different mathematics achievement test (Stankov et al., 2012) and with an international sample of 10 culturally distinct national groups (Morony et al.”
Juxtaposing math self-efficacy and self-concept as predictors of long-term achievement outcomes (2014, background): “Indeed, positive self-beliefs are associated with greater effort, persistence and confidence, and lower anxiety (Marsh, 2007; Stankov et al., 2012).”
The role of students' self-beliefs, motivation and attitudes in predicting mathematics achievement: A multilevel analysis of the Programme for International Student Assessment data (2017, background): “It is unlike any other types of anxiety as it appears to affect visual rather than verbal working memory (Marsh, Hau, Artelt, Baumert, & Peschar, 2006; Miller & Bichsel, 2004; Stankov, Lee, Luo, & Hogan, 2012; Stankov, Morony, & Lee, 2014).”