High-school students' need for cognition,self-control capacity,and school achievement: Testing a mediation hypothesis |
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Authors: | Alex Bertrams Oliver Dickhäuser |
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Affiliation: | 1. North Carolina State University, United States;2. The Ohio State University, United States |
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Abstract: | In the present article, we examine the hypothesis that high-school students' motivation to engage in cognitive endeavors (i.e., their need for cognition; NFC) is positively related to their dispositional self-control capacity. Furthermore, we test the prediction that the relation between NFC and school achievement is mediated by self-control capacity. A questionnaire study with grade ten high-school students (N = 604) revealed the expected relations between NFC, self-control capacity, and school achievement. Sobel tests showed that self-control capacity mediated the relation between NFC and school grades as well as grade retention. |
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