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University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Trace: Tennessee Research and Creative
Exchange
Doctoral Dissertations Graduate School
8-2003
Big Five Personality Traits and Work Drive as
Predictors of Adolescent Academic Performance.
Susan Rae Perry
University of Tennessee - Knoxville
This Dissertation is brought to you for free and open access by the Graduate School at Trace: Tennessee Research and Creative Exchange. It has been
accepted for inclusion in Doctoral Dissertations by an authorized administrator of Trace: Tennessee Research and Creative Exchange. For more
information, please contact [email protected]
Recommended Citation
Perry, Susan Rae, "Big Five Personality Traits and Work Drive as Predictors of Adolescent Academic Performance.. " PhD diss.,
University of Tennessee, 2003.
https://trace.tennessee.edu/utk_graddiss/2190
https://trace.tennessee.edu
https://trace.tennessee.edu
https://trace.tennessee.edu/utk_graddiss
https://trace.tennessee.edu/utk-grad
mailto:[email protected]
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Research Question 2: Does the relationship between Work Drive and GPA vary by grade
level?
The conclusions in the literature about the relationship between age and work drive are
equally unclear (Buchholz, 1978; Furnham, 1982, 1987; Wentworth & Chell, 1997).
Wentworth and Chell (1997) found younger, undergraduate students expressed more PWE
beliefs than did older graduate students. Number of years in the workforce negatively impacted
PWE beliefs, as did level of education. Work Drive has not been examined in adolescent
populations, so the extent to which this effect might occur within four years of school, if at all, is
unknown. Therefore, grade level was examined as a possible moderator of Work Drive in this
study.
Sample
The subjects for this study are 9th, 10th, 11th and 12th grade students from a data
archive collected by Resource Associates, Inc. as part of a study of students in a school system
in the southeast. Three high schools provided the dataset for this study. The total number of
subjects was 1, 276 females and 1,122 males, for a total of 2,398 subjects. The school system
is 82% Caucasian, 14% African-American, and 4% other.
Instrumentation
The Resource Associates Adolescent Personal Style Inventory (APSI, Version 2)
consists of 118 items. It measures the following personality traits, considered appropriate by
human resource managers for selecting new employees: Agreeableness, Conscientiousness,
Emotional Stability/Resilience, Extraversion, Openness, and Work Drive.
University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Trace: Tennessee Research and Creative
Exchange
Doctoral Dissertations Graduate School
8-2003
Big Five Personality Traits and Work Drive as
Predictors of Adolescent Academic Performance.
Susan Rae Perry
University of Tennessee - Knoxville
This Dissertation is brought to you for free and open access by the Graduate School at Trace: Tennessee Research and Creative Exchange. It has been
accepted for inclusion in Doctoral Dissertations by an authorized administrator of Trace: Tennessee Research and Creative Exchange. For more
information, please contact [email protected]
Recommended Citation
Perry, Susan Rae, "Big Five Personality Traits and Work Drive as Predictors of Adolescent Academic Performance.. " PhD diss.,
University of Tennessee, 2003.
https://trace.tennessee.edu/utk_graddiss/2190
https://trace.tennessee.edu
https://trace.tennessee.edu
https://trace.tennessee.edu/utk_graddiss
https://trace.tennessee.edu/utk-grad
mailto:[email protected]
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Research Question 2: Does the relationship between Work Drive and GPA vary by grade
level?
The conclusions in the literature about the relationship between age and work drive are
equally unclear (Buchholz, 1978; Furnham, 1982, 1987; Wentworth & Chell, 1997).
Wentworth and Chell (1997) found younger, undergraduate students expressed more PWE
beliefs than did older graduate students. Number of years in the workforce negatively impacted
PWE beliefs, as did level of education. Work Drive has not been examined in adolescent
populations, so the extent to which this effect might occur within four years of school, if at all, is
unknown. Therefore, grade level was examined as a possible moderator of Work Drive in this
study.
Sample
The subjects for this study are 9th, 10th, 11th and 12th grade students from a data
archive collected by Resource Associates, Inc. as part of a study of students in a school system
in the southeast. Three high schools provided the dataset for this study. The total number of
subjects was 1, 276 females and 1,122 males, for a total of 2,398 subjects. The school system
is 82% Caucasian, 14% African-American, and 4% other.
Instrumentation
The Resource Associates Adolescent Personal Style Inventory (APSI, Version 2)
consists of 118 items. It measures the following personality traits, considered appropriate by
human resource managers for selecting new employees: Agreeableness, Conscientiousness,
Emotional Stability/Resilience, Extraversion, Openness, and Work Drive.
