| McCredie_Kurtz {LSTbook} | R Documentation |
"Big Five" personality ratings for college first-year students
Description
Abstract from the research paper: Five-factor personality ratings were provided by undergraduate freshmen, their parents, and their college peers as predictors of cumulative GPA upon graduation. Conscientiousness ratings were significant predictors of GPA by all three raters; peer ratings of Conscientiousness were the only significant predictor of GPA when self-, parent-, and peer-ratings of Conscientiousness were examined simultaneously. College major was a moderator of this relationship, with self- and parent-ratings of Conscientiousness correlating more strongly with GPA among Social Science majors and parent-ratings of Conscientiousness correlating less strongly with GPA among Science majors. These findings replicate existing research regarding the validity of informant ratings as predictors of behavioral outcomes such as academic performance, while emphasizing the importance of including multiple informants from various life contexts.
Usage
data(McCredie_Kurtz)
Format
For simplicity, only the mother's and father's ratings for the student are given.
The variable name indicates whose rating and on what scale, e.g. m_extra is the
mothers rating on the extraversion scale. Other variables are:
subjid: Unique ID for the student
age: The student's age when the ratings were collected
GPA: The student's eventual 4-year grade-point average
sex: The student's sex
field: What field the student ended up studying
Details
The five personality factors are:
extraversion: sociability
neuroticism: sadness or emotional instability
openness to experience
agreeableness: kindness
conscientiousness: thoughtfulness
Source
McCredie_Kurtz_Open_Data.sav comes from https://data.mendeley.com/datasets/rn2bpp6f37/1
References
Morgan N. McCredie and John E. Kurtz (2020) "Prospective prediction of academic performance in college using self- and informant-rated personality traits" Journal of Research in Personality 85