Predicting grade point average from the hybrid model of learning in personality: consistent findings from Ugandan and Australian students |
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| Authors: | Chris Jackson Peter Baguma Adrian Furnham |
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| Institution: | 1. Department of Organisation and Management , University of New South Wales , Sydney , NSW 2052 , Australia;2. Department of Organisational and Social Psychology , Makerere University , Kampala , Uganda;3. Department of Psychology , University College London , 26 Bedford Way, London , UK |
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| Abstract: | Jackson developed a hybrid model of learning in personality, known as the Learning Styles Profiler (LSP), which seeks to explain personality in terms of biological, socio‐cognitive and experiential processes. The hybrid model argues that functional learning outcomes can be understood in terms of how cognitions and experiences re‐express sensation seeking as functional learning. In two studies from Uganda and Australia (n = 136 and n = 290 respectively), grade point average (GPA) of students was successfully predicted from the hybrid model. Results show evidence of three indirect pathways from sensation seeking through cognitions to GPA and provide a new understanding of the way in which personality can predict performance. |
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| Keywords: | academic performance personality learning style hybrid model of learning in personality learning styles profiler |
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