Academic success and individual differences

Individual differences and undergraduate academic success: the roles of personality, intelligence, and application

The roles of intelligence and motivation in predicting academic success are well established. Evidence is, however, mixed concerning the role of personality traits in predicting such success. The current study attempted to overcome various methodological limitations associated with many previous studies to examine the potency of the traits of the ‘five factor model of personality’ in predicting...

Individual differences and reproductive success in yellow-bellied marmots

Employee Engagement and Individual Differences: A Study in Indian Context

The employee engagement has emerged as a pivotal business driver for organizational success. High level of engagement in domestic and global firms is supposed to have multiple enriching effects on an organization. Studies have highlighted the importance of both organizational and individual factors in ensuring highly engaged employees. The present paper explores the individual differs across fo...

Individual differences and development of speech act production

This  study  examined  the  effects  of  individual  difference  (ID)  factors  on  changing  pragmatic abilities  among  L2  learners  of  English.  Participants  were  48  Japanese  EFL  students  in  an English-medium  university  in  Japan.  They  completed  a  pragmatic  speaking  test  (k=12)  that assessed  their  ability  to  produce  two  speech  acts:  requests  and  opinions,  in  hi...

Emotional Intelligence and Academic Success 1 The Relation of Emotional Intelligence to Academic Success

A great deal of excitement surrounds the claim that emotional intelligence predicts success at work, at school, and in relationships. For example, TIME magazine claimed “emotional intelligence may be the best predictor of success in life, redefining what it means to be smart” (1995). Unfortunately, little research has been done to either support or refute this claim. The purpose of this study w...