• DOI:10.1016/J.LINDIF.2008.06.005
Corpus ID: 145599250

High-School Students' Need for Cognition, Self-Control Capacity, and School Achievement: Testing a Mediation Hypothesis.

@article{Bertrams2009HighSchoolSN,
  title={High-School Students' Need for Cognition, Self-Control Capacity, and School Achievement: Testing a Mediation Hypothesis.},
  author={A. Bertrams and Oliver Dickh{\"a}user},
  journal={Learning and Individual Differences},
  year={2009},
  volume={19},
  pages={135-138}
}

• A. Bertrams, Oliver Dickhäuser
• Published 2009
• Psychology
• Learning and Individual Differences

In the present article, we examine the hypothesis that high-school students' motivation to engage in cognitive endeavors (i.e., their need for cognition; NFC) is positively related to their dispositional self-control capacity. Furthermore, we test the prediction that the relation between NFC and school achievement is mediated by self-control capacity. A questionnaire study with grade ten high-school students (N = 604) revealed the expected relations between NFC, self-control capacity, and… Expand

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