Interplay of Intelligence and Non-cognitive Constructs in Predicting Achievement

A special issue of Journal of Intelligence (ISSN 2079-3200).

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 January 2025 | Viewed by 979

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Faculty of Psychology, Technical University Dortmund, 44227 Dortmund, Germany
Interests: educational achievement; interplay of intelligence, personality, and motivation; subjective wellbeing; political psychology; behavior genetics

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Faculty of Psychology, Technical University Dortmund, 44227 Dortmund, Germany
Interests: determinants of academic achievement; determinants of subjective well-being; giftedness; motivation; educational diagnostics

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Dear Colleagues,

Intelligence is a key determinant of academic and occupational achievement, along with personality, motivation, and a variety of socioeconomic and environmental variables. In addition to their well-researched main effects, it has been shown that cognitive abilities interact with other variables in the prediction of achievement. Despite the growing interest in this field, longitudinal examinations and more in-depth analyses of interaction effects are still scarce.

The aim of this Special Issue is to enhance our understanding of this dynamic interplay, covering interactions between intelligence and other predictors of achievement, such as personality and motivational variables. The roles of socioeconomic factors and environmental conditions, such as school climate, are of equal interest. Since we are eager to depict the full range of achievement, suitable articles may include all forms of achievement outcomes, such as school grades, standardized achievement tests, educational attainment, career choices, or job performance.

Longitudinal studies will most likely advance our knowledge regarding the pathways to achievement and will thus be favored, but the question of what makes individuals succeed in both education and occupation requires a multifaceted perspective. Hence, we encourage diverse and innovative methodological approaches to model interaction effects and welcome contributions from various disciplines. Although we are mostly interested in original empirical studies, submissions of theoretical contributions and thorough literature reviews are also welcome.

Dr. Anke Hufer-Thamm
Prof. Dr. Ricarda Steinmayr
Guest Editors

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Keywords

  • cognitive abilities
  • achievement
  • personality
  • motivation
  • interaction
  • job performance

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Major Choices: Students’ Personal Intelligence, Considerations When Choosing a Major, and Academic Success
by Kateryna Sylaska and John D. Mayer
J. Intell. 2024, 12(11), 115; https://doi.org/10.3390/jintelligence12110115 - 13 Nov 2024
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A student’s choice of major is influenced by their parents and peers, as well as by the quality of the college department that offers the major and by broader cultural and economic issues. The student’s own personality, including their ability to reason about [...] Read more.
A student’s choice of major is influenced by their parents and peers, as well as by the quality of the college department that offers the major and by broader cultural and economic issues. The student’s own personality, including their ability to reason about themselves and their interests, also contributes to the choice and its outcomes. In a preliminary study, we developed a Choice of Major Scale that depicts key aspects of students’ consideration of their major. Then, across three studies (Ns = 304, 466, and 492), we examined the students’ personal intelligence, defined as their capacity to reason about their own and other people’s personalities, as well as a Choice of Major Scale, and the relation of those variables to important academic outcomes. The results depicted a pattern that the students who better understood personality and were more engaged in choosing a major, compared to others, considered more majors initially, chose a major more quickly, and exhibited better academic outcomes subsequently. Full article
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