Therefore, interventions that promote commitment is crucial to academic performance of the first-year first semester engineering students. It can be concluded that commitment is the most significant factor to excel in first-year engineering in the university. Commitment and focus show relatively larger effect on academic performance. This study also reveals teamwork competencies as better predictors of academic performance than personality traits. Adventurous trait appears to negatively correlate with teamwork competencies. The correlations between personality traits and teamwork competencies as well as correlations of both the variables to academic performance were subsequently analyzed.įindings – This study shows no significant difference between the self-rated and peer-rated teamwork competencies. The purpose of this study is to examine the interrelation between personality traits, teamwork competencies and academic performance among first-year first semester engineering students in an Australian university located in the Sarawak state of Malaysia.ĭesign/methodology/approach – The Individual and Team Performance (ITP) metrics were administered among 189 students to gauge their personality traits as well as self-rated and peer-rated teamwork competencies. However, studies have shown inconsistent results with some personality traits better than the other in predicting students’ performance in different academic majors. Purpose – It is commonly believed that personality traits determine a person’s ability to work in a team and academic performance. This idea stands in sharp contrast to many models of rational choice and attests to the importance of understanding implicit beliefs. Implicit egotism appears to influence major life decisions.

Studies 7-10 suggested that people disproportionately choose careers whose labels resemble their names (e.g., people named Dennis or Denise are overrepresented among dentists). People were disproportionately likely to live in cities whose names began with their birthday numbers (e.g., Two Harbors, MN). Study 6 extended this finding to birthday number preferences.

Studies 1-5 showed that people are disproportionately likely to live in places whose names resemble their own first or last names (e.g., people named Louis are disproportionately likely to live in St. Ten studies assessed the role of implicit egotism in 2 major life decisions: where people choose to live and what people choose to do for a living. The authors refer to such preferences as implicit egotism. Because most people possess positive associations about themselves, most people prefer things that are connected to the self (e.g., the letters in one's name).

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