Predicting School Grades: Can Conscientiousness Compensate for Intelligence?

ABSTRACT: Intelligence and noncognitive factors such as conscientiousness are strongly related to academic performance. As theory and research differ with respect to their interplay in predicting performance, the present study examines whether conscientiousness compensates for intelligence or enhances the effect of intelligence on performance in 3775 13th grade students from Germany. Latent moderation analyses show positive main effects of intelligence and conscientiousness on grades. Further, analyses reveal synergistic interactions in predicting grades in biology, mathematics, and German, but no interaction in predicting grades in English. Intelligence and grades are more strongly linked if students are conscientious. Multigroup models detected gender differences in biology, but no differences wit

SUBMITTER: Friedrich TS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10381607 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature