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This means that whiles students with high neuroticism may be motivated to aspire for greater academic outcome, it is those with high conscientiousness that are likely to be guaranteed of successful grades. c. Three of the personality traits were found not to play any significant role in academic success, meaning that a person’s academic success may remain static no matter the measure in these areas of personality trait measure. The three areas were extraversion, openness to experience, and agreeableness. f. Even though the findings were clearly made from within the identified sources of the researchers, no strong data synthesis was found to follow this, making the study a mere statement of existing claims. Noftle E. E.

and Robins R. W. (2007). Personality Predictors of Academic Outcomes: Big Five Correlates of GPA and SAT Scores. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. Vol. 93. No.1. 116-130. DOI 10.1037/0022-3514.93.1.116. c. There are two perspectives of mediation for the relation that was drawn between Conscientiousness and college GPA and these two perspectives are increased academic effort and higher levels of perceived academic ability. Within this same of results, the study showed that the relations between the two variables were both concurrent and longitudinal. d. Even though the relation between openness and SAT verbal scores was mediated, this relation was also noted to be independent of academic achievement, meaning that openness did not have a direct bearing on academic achievement. Noftle E. E.

and Robins R. W. (2007). Personality Predictors of Academic Outcomes: Big Five Correlates of GPA and SAT Scores. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. Vol. 93. No.1. 116-130. DOI 10.1037/0022-3514.93.1.116 Trapmann, S., Hell, B., Hirn, J. W. and Schuler, H. (2007). Meta-Analysis of the Relationship Between the Big Five and Academic Success at University. Journal of Psychology. Vol. 215(2) :132-151, DOI