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Personality traits, goal orientations and school achievement

The aim of this study was to investigate the possibility of predicting school achievement through personality traits and goal orientations. The study was conducted on high school students (N = 222) of second, third, and fourth grade (146 female, 76 male, mean age 17.07). Instruments used in this study were: the Big Five Inventory, which was used to measure five factor model of personality traits (extraversion, neuroticism, conscientiousness, agreeableness and openness to experience) and the Components of Self-Regulated Learning for measuring three goal orientation: learning goal orientation, performance goal orientation and work-avoidance goal orientation. As a measure of school achievement researchers gathered: students’ previous grade point average, grade in Croatian language, mathematics, and first foreign language. The results of the hierarchical regression analysis suggested that conscientiousness and neuroticism are positive predictors of GPA and the grade in the Croatian language. Furthermore, openness is a positive predictor, while extraversion is a negative predictor of the grade in the first foreign language. Also, results have shown that learning goal orientation is a positive predictor of the grade in Croatian language. Finally, results have shown that learning goal orientation mediated the relationship between conscientiousness and the grade in Croatian language. This study indicates the importance of taking into consideration different predictors of achievement for each of the subjects.

goal orientations, personality traits, school achievement

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