The influence of personality traits on university performance: Evidence from Italian freshmen students

Despite several attempts to provide a definite pattern regarding the effects of personality traits on performance in higher education, the debate over the nature of the relationship is far from being conclusive. The use of different subject pools and sample sizes, as well as the use of identificatio...

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Autores principales:	Luca Corazzini, Silvia D’Arrigo, Emanuele Millemaci, Pietro Navarra
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Publicado:	Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2021
Materias:	Medicine R Science Q
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:e7bafdeff6d04c65943f67262bcd2fb62021-11-11T07:14:45ZThe influence of personality traits on university performance: Evidence from Italian freshmen students1932-6203https://doaj.org/article/e7bafdeff6d04c65943f67262bcd2fb62021-01-01T00:00:00Zhttps://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8565773/?tool=EBIhttps://doaj.org/toc/1932-6203Despite several attempts to provide a definite pattern regarding the effects of personality traits on performance in higher education, the debate over the nature of the relationship is far from being conclusive. The use of different subject pools and sample sizes, as well as the use of identification strategies that either do not adequately account for selection bias or are unable to establish causality between measures of academic performance and noncognitive skills, are possible sources of heterogeneity. This paper investigates the impact of the Big Five traits, as measured before the beginning of the academic year, on the grade point average achieved in the first year after the enrolment, taking advantage of a unique and large dataset from a cohort of Italian students in all undergraduate programs containing detailed information on student and parental characteristics. Relying on a robust strategy to credibly satisfy the conditional independence assumption, we find that higher levels of conscientiousness and openness to experience positively affect student score.Luca CorazziniSilvia D’ArrigoEmanuele MillemaciPietro NavarraPublic Library of Science (PLoS)articleMedicineRScienceQENPLoS ONE, Vol 16, Iss 11 (2021)
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description	Despite several attempts to provide a definite pattern regarding the effects of personality traits on performance in higher education, the debate over the nature of the relationship is far from being conclusive. The use of different subject pools and sample sizes, as well as the use of identification strategies that either do not adequately account for selection bias or are unable to establish causality between measures of academic performance and noncognitive skills, are possible sources of heterogeneity. This paper investigates the impact of the Big Five traits, as measured before the beginning of the academic year, on the grade point average achieved in the first year after the enrolment, taking advantage of a unique and large dataset from a cohort of Italian students in all undergraduate programs containing detailed information on student and parental characteristics. Relying on a robust strategy to credibly satisfy the conditional independence assumption, we find that higher levels of conscientiousness and openness to experience positively affect student score.
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author	Luca Corazzini Silvia D’Arrigo Emanuele Millemaci Pietro Navarra
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title	The influence of personality traits on university performance: Evidence from Italian freshmen students
title_short	The influence of personality traits on university performance: Evidence from Italian freshmen students
title_full	The influence of personality traits on university performance: Evidence from Italian freshmen students
title_fullStr	The influence of personality traits on university performance: Evidence from Italian freshmen students
title_full_unstemmed	The influence of personality traits on university performance: Evidence from Italian freshmen students
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The influence of personality traits on university performance: Evidence from Italian freshmen students

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