Predicting school achievement in boys and girls

被引：131

作者：

Freudenthaler, H. Harald ^{[1
]}

Spinath, Birgit ^{[2
]}

Neubauer, Aljoscha C. ^{[1
]}

机构：

[1] Graz Univ, Dept Psychol, A-8010 Graz, Austria

[2] Heidelberg Univ, Dept Psychol, Heidelberg, Germany

来源：

EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF PERSONALITY | 2008年 / 22卷 / 03期

关键词：

sex differences; school achievement; intelligence; personality; motivation;

D O I：

10.1002/per.678

中图分类号：

B84 [心理学];

学科分类号：

04 ; 0402 ;

摘要：

This study investigates the extent to which girls' better school attainment is associated with sex differences in intelligence, personal by and school-related motivation. In a sample of 1353 Austrian pupils (mean age 13.74 years), intelligence, the Big Five of personality, self-esteem, school anxiety, school-related intrinsic motivation and achievement goals were assessed as predictors and GPA as achievement criterion. Most predictors yielded significant mean differences between sexes and some of the variables predicted school achievement only or boys or only for girls. Intelligence and self-esteem were the strongest predictors of GPA for both sexes, and school-related intrinsic motivation, school anxiety and performance-avoidance goals explained additional variance in GPA only for boys, whereas work avoidance did so only for girls. Copyright (c) 2008 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

引用

页码：231 / 245

页数：15

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