According to a new review of the link between personality and academic achievement, personality is a better way to predict success at school than intelligence as it’s usually measured, by traditional standardized tests. Arthur Poropat, of Griffith University in Australia, compared measurements of what psychologists call the “big five” personality traits — openness, conscientiousness, extroversion, agreeableness, and neuroticism — to academic scores, and found that the students who were rated higher in openness and conscientiousness tended to receive better grades.
近期一项有关人格特点和学术收获之间联系的研究综述表明，对于学生在学校获得学业成绩高低的预测，人格特点比一般觉得的IQ更要紧。澳大利亚格里菲斯大学的亚瑟·波罗派特对比了被心理学家称为“大五”人格特质的五种人格特点--开放性、尽责性、外向性、亲和性和情绪稳定性—与学业成绩的关系，发现开放性和尽责性得分较高的学生容易获得更好的成绩。
"In practical terms, the amount of effort students are prepared to put in, and where that effort is focused, is at least as important as whether the students are smart,” Poropat said in the release accompanying the paper, which was published in Learning and Individual Differences. “And a student with the most helpful personality will score a full grade higher than an average student in this regard.”
该项研究发表在《学习与个体差异》期刊上。“从实质角度出发，学生们的努力程度和努力方向至少和聪明程度一样要紧。”波罗派特说，“任何一个学生，只须拥有最有帮助的人格特质，就可以比普通学生的成绩提升整整一个档次。”
In Dr. Poropat’s research, a student’s assessment of their own personality is as useful for predicting university success as intelligence rankings. However, when people who know the student well provide the personality rating, it is nearly four times more accurate for predicting grades.
另外波罗派特博士的研究还表明，大学生对自己性格的评估与IQ排名的结果一样，都能够帮助预测其在大学阶段的学业表现。假如让对该名学生相当知道的人来对其性格进行评估，则得出结果对成绩预测的准确度能提升将近4倍。
It makes intuitive sense that both conscientiousness and openness would result in higher grades; it doesn’t really matter how smart you are if you can’t manage to turn your homework in on time, for one. And another word for openness is curiosity, another obviously necessary factor in learning. Still, it’s an interesting way to think about academic achievement for anyone who grew up believing they did well in school simply because they were “smart.”
该研究结果中，尽责性和开放性都能使学生得到高分。其中尽责性非常不错理解，由于假如不可以按时上交作业，再聪明好像也没什么意义。而开放性，它的另一重意思其实是好奇心，好奇对于学习也是一个至关要紧的原因。想想，假如一个天才对身边的所有都不有兴趣，那即使他/她再聪明，也没什么用吧。
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