Predicting early academic achievement: The role of higher-versus lower-order personality traits

The study explored the role of children?s (N = 193) individual differences and parental characteristics at the beginning of the first year of schooling in predicting students? attainment of academic standards at the end of the year. Special attention was paid to children?s personality as perceived by the teachers? assistants. Along with parents? education, parenting practices and first-graders? cognitive ability, the incremental predictive power...