Relationship between general intelligence, competences and academic achievement among university students

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

“…Secondly, our study corroborated and went deeper into the relationship between postgraduate competence and academic research performance. On the one hand, the results obtained revealed that postgraduate competence positively predicted academic research performance, which was consistent with the conclusion reported in prior research [14,16]. On the other hand, unlike previous studies that confirmed the relationship between postgraduate competence and academic research performance, the more specific aspects of postgraduate competence were linked to academic research performance.…”

“…Secondly, our study went deeper into the identification of the specific aspects of postgraduate competence that were directly related to academic research performance, and therefore, to school adjustment. This was important because despite documentation by different studies of the relationship between competence and academic research performance [16,17], none had clarified which specific aspects of this construct were significantly associated with postgraduate students' academic research performance. As a result, this study enriched our understanding of how postgraduate competence affected academic research performance.…”

“…Thus, an appropriate instrument for measuring postgraduate competence needs to be developed to reflect the characteristics of the postgraduate students' learning environments. Secondly, despite there being a small amount of works that confirm the positive relationship between competence and academic performance, it is still unresolved as to which of the more specific aspects of postgraduate competence are linked to academic performance [16]. Several studies have examined competence as a unidimensional construct, making it hard to clearly understand the relationships between different dimensions of competence and academic research performance [16,17].…”

“…Secondly, despite there being a small amount of works that confirm the positive relationship between competence and academic performance, it is still unresolved as to which of the more specific aspects of postgraduate competence are linked to academic performance [16]. Several studies have examined competence as a unidimensional construct, making it hard to clearly understand the relationships between different dimensions of competence and academic research performance [16,17]. The roles of the different dimensions of competence in fostering postgraduate students' academic research performance need further investigation.…”