Some Personality Correlates of Self-Rated Academic Success
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A comparison of mean scores of the two groups on nine personality variables covered by Eysenck's PEN Inventory and Lanyon's Psychological Screening Inventory showed that academic success is associated with low psychoticism, neuroticism, and discomfort but high extraversion and defensiveness.
Abstract
Using subjects' own ratings of their academic performance, a group of american university students were divided into academically successful (n = 312) and unsuccessful (n = 170) subgroups. A comparison of mean scores of the two groups on nine personality variables convered by Eysenck's PEN Inventory and Lanyon's Psychological Screening Inventory showed that academic success, as rated by subjects themselves, is associated with low psychoticism, neuroticism, and discomfort but high extraversion and defensiveness.