Do Students with Varying Academic Ability Benefit Equally from Personal Qualities? Applying a Trait and State Perspective

Kool, Ada; Mainhard, M. Tim; Jaarsma, Alexandra; Beukelen, Peter van; Brekelmans, Mieke

doi:10.1007/s11162-018-9498-y

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“…Our findings demonstrated that competence could be positively transmitted through a specific psychological resourcepsychological capital. This finding was consistent with the prior research on psychological capital, which had demonstrated that psychological capital as an important psychological resource could promote the positive academic outcomes of postgraduate students [59,60]. Moreover, this result was in line with the job demands-resources model, which suggested that individuals could use their resources to deal with different challenges and meet academic research demands to achieve academic outcomes [61].…”

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Postgraduate Competence and Academic Research Performance: The Mediating Role of Psychological Capital

2021

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In this study, we developed and validated an instrument for measuring postgraduate competence and examined the relationships between postgraduate competence and academic research performance, along with the mediating role of psychological capital. Based on two independent samples, the results provided robust evidence of postgraduate competence composed of six dimensions. Adopting a two-wave survey at two different time periods, we conducted a questionnaire survey on 364 postgraduates from three top universities in China by random sampling. The results indicated that postgraduate competence was positively associated with academic research performance. Among the competences composed of six dimensions, research ability was the most predictive dimension of academic research performance. Additionally, psychological capital partially mediated the relationship between postgraduate competence and academic research performance. These findings contributed to the ongoing discussion about improving postgraduates’ academic research performance under the circumstance of competence-based education.

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Postgraduate Competence and Academic Research Performance: The Mediating Role of Psychological Capital

2021

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“…Additionally, increased competition in various aspects of society may contribute to this phenomenon. Nowadays, academic achievement is often assessed solely based on grades and numbers, without considering the individual potential and capabilities of students (Kool et al, 2018). This trend encourages rote memorization over understanding, which represents a lower level of cognitive development.…”

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Test anxiety and academic performance: A correlational study among nursing college students

Benjamin,

Mohammed

2023

J Pal Nurs Stud

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Background: Test anxiety is defined as an individual’s response to stimuli associated with their experiences in testing or evaluative situations. Objective: This study aims to investigate the relationship between test anxiety and the academic performance of nursing college students. Methods: We conducted a descriptive correlational study, selecting a sample of 98 nursing students through convenient sampling at a selected nursing college in Kerala, India. Data were collected using various tools, including a background variable proforma, a proforma for evaluating the academic achievement of nursing students, and the Westside Test Anxiety Scale. Results: Our findings revealed a statistically significant negative correlation (r=-0.4) between test anxiety and academic performance (p<0.05). This suggests that reducing test anxiety can lead to an improvement in academic performance. Conclusions: There is a need to plan psychological interventions aimed at reducing test anxiety and enhancing the academic performance of students. These interventions should be integrated at the policy level of academic performance management.

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“…It deserves to be noted further that grit covering the two subconstructs of perseverance and passion can be nurtured over time from adolescence ( 42 ) to continued academic study ( 43 , 44 ) and work-based learning ( 42 ). The education curriculum on the recognition and management of stress has been verified to increase medical trainees’ perseverance subscales of grit in clerkships ( 45 ).…”

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Effects of grit on medical students’ wellbeing during clerkships: a longitudinal observational cohort study

Lin,

Chen

et al. 2024

Front. Med.

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IntroductionIn medical education, the clerkship phase is a demanding period during which medical students learn to navigate the responsibilities of medical school and clinical medicine. Grit, a personal quality regarded as a non-cognitive trait, refers to perseverance and passion; specifically, it represents the ability to endure hardship and work industriously toward a goal. Most studies analysed grit as a single concept and few studies have investigated the effect of grit on the well-being of medical students through the whole-specialty training (i.e. surgical and non-surgical specialty rotations) required in clinical clerkships. Therefore, this study investigated whether associations exist between medical students’ grit, measured by the two subconstructs of perseverance and passion, and their well-being during clerkships in surgical and non-surgical specialty units.MethodsThis one-year prospective web-based questionnaire study enrolled fifth-year medical students at a tertiary medical centre in central Taiwan between September 2017 and July 2018 in their first-year clerkship. The students’ sex, age, and grit were measured at the start of their clerkship. Routine surveys were conducted over one year to assess burnout and compassion satisfaction for students’ well-being, and the training specialty characteristics of the surgical and non-surgical specialty departments were recorded. This study included 92 medical students and 1,055 survey responses from individual specialty rotations. Descriptive, univariate and multivariate analyses were performed.ResultsOur results revealed that medical students’ perseverance, as part of grit, was related to lower burnout and higher compassion satisfaction during clerkships, but not the subconstruct of passion. Moreover, the positive trait of perseverance measured in our study had greater explanatory power for compassion satisfaction than for burnout. Furthermore, the results revealed that older medical students suffered from less burnout than their younger counterparts, and that male medical students expressed higher compassion satisfaction than their female counterparts.DiscussionPerseverance, as a subconstruct of grit, is a positive personal quality for medical students’ clerkships, and methods driving the cultivation of perseverance in medical education should be considered. In addition, even though positive traits such as perseverance equipped medical students for compassion satisfaction, additional factors attributed to medical students’ burnout must be identified.

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Do Students with Varying Academic Ability Benefit Equally from Personal Qualities? Applying a Trait and State Perspective

Cited by 6 publications

References 38 publications

Postgraduate Competence and Academic Research Performance: The Mediating Role of Psychological Capital

Postgraduate Competence and Academic Research Performance: The Mediating Role of Psychological Capital

Test anxiety and academic performance: A correlational study among nursing college students

Effects of grit on medical students’ wellbeing during clerkships: a longitudinal observational cohort study

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