Born this way or formed this way? Distal personality traits and proximal self-efficacy of Malaysian students and their academic performance

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

<a href="https://esp.apacsci.com/index.php/esp/article/view/2282" target="_blank" >https://esp.apacsci.com/index.php/esp/article/view/2282</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.54517/esp.v9i5.2282" target="_blank" >10.54517/esp.v9i5.2282</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Born this way or formed this way? Distal personality traits and proximal self-efficacy of Malaysian students and their academic performance

Original language description

It has been acknowledged that academic performance has important consequences in one’s career, thus, a better understanding of both distal and proximal predictors deserves consideration. Based on social cognitive theory, this study contributes to the limited research investigating the academic performance of university students in Malaysia using the trait model which considers the mediation of self-efficacy (proximal characteristic) in the relationship between student personality (distal trait) and academic performance (outcomes). In a sample of 264 participants, self-efficacy positively relates to academic performance and positively mediated effects of all traits (except neuroticism) on academic performance. Contrary to past research, conscientiousness, extraversion, and agreeableness do not exert direct effects on academic achievement but instead through self-efficacy. Openness to experience turned out to be the strongest predictor pointing to a need for in-depth investigations into this dimension and for more complex model incorporating other proximal attributes in predicting academic performance in future research. © 2024 by author(s).

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_SC - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the SCOPUS database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50101 - Psychology (including human - machine relations)

Project

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Continuities

S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach

Publication year

2024

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Environment and Social Psychology

ISSN

2424-7979

e-ISSN

2424-8975

Volume of the periodical

9

Issue of the periodical within the volume

5

Country of publishing house

SG - SINGAPORE

Number of pages

14

Pages from-to

"Article number: 2282"

UT code for WoS article

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EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85184902640