Psychological Development and Education ›› 2016, Vol. 32 ›› Issue (5): 579-586.doi: 10.16187/j.cnki.issn1001-4918.2016.05.08

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The Relationship of College Students' Proactive Personality and Academic Performance: The Mediating Roles of Academic Self-efficacy and Academic Adjustment

WANG Wei1, LEI Li2,3, WANG Xingchao2   

  1. 1. Department of Psychology, Shanxi Datong University, Datong 037009;
    2. Department of Psychology, Renmin University of China, Beijing 100872;
    3. School of Psychology, Central China Normal University, Wuhan 430079
  • Online:2016-09-15 Published:2016-09-15

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Abstract: The study examined the relationship of college students' proactive personality and academic performance, and the mediating roles of academic self-efficacy and academic adjustment. Three hundred eighty-eight students participated in the study. The results found that: (1) Academic performance was positively correlated to proactive personality, academic self-efficacy, and academic adjustment. (2) Academic self-efficacy played a fully mediating role in the relationship between proactive personality and academic performance, but academic adjustment didn't play a mediating role in this relationship. Academic self-efficacy played a partially mediating role in the relationship between proactive personality and academic adjustment.

Key words: college student, proactive personality, academic self-efficacy, academic adjustment, academic performance

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  • G442

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