According to a new review of the link between personality and academic achievement, personality is a better way to predict success at school than intelligence as it’s usually measured, by traditional standardized tests. Arthur Poropat, of Griffith University in Australia, compared measurements of what psychologists call the “big five” personality traits — openness, conscientiousness, extroversion, agreeableness, and neuroticism — to academic scores, and found that the students who were rated higher in openness and conscientiousness tended to receive better grades.
最近一項有關人格特征和學術成就之間聯(lián)系的研究綜述表明，對于學生在學校取得學業(yè)成績高低的預測，人格特征比通常認為的智商更重要。澳大利亞格里菲斯大學的亞瑟·波羅派特對比了被心理學家稱為“大五”人格特質的五種人格特征--開放性、盡責性、外向性、親和性和情緒穩(wěn)定性—與學業(yè)成績的關系，發(fā)現(xiàn)開放性和盡責性得分較高的學生容易取得更好的成績。

"In practical terms, the amount of effort students are prepared to put in, and where that effort is focused, is at least as important as whether the students are smart,” Poropat said in the release accompanying the paper, which was published in Learning and Individual Differences. “And a student with the most helpful personality will score a full grade higher than an average student in this regard.”
該項研究發(fā)表在《學習與個體差異》期刊上。“從實際角度出發(fā)，學生們的努力程度和努力方向至少和聰明程度一樣重要?！辈_派特說，“任何一個學生，只要擁有最有幫助的人格特質，就能夠比普通學生的成績提高整整一個檔次?！?/div>

In Dr. Poropat’s research, a student’s assessment of their own personality is as useful for predicting university success as intelligence rankings. However, when people who know the student well provide the personality rating, it is nearly four times more accurate for predicting grades.
另外波羅派特博士的研究還表明，大學生對自己性格的評估與智商排名的結果一樣，都有助于預測其在大學階段的學業(yè)表現(xiàn)。如果讓對該名學生相當了解的人來對其性格進行評估，則得出結果對成績預測的準確度能提高將近4倍。

It makes intuitive sense that both conscientiousness and openness would result in higher grades; it doesn’t really matter how smart you are if you can’t manage to turn your homework in on time, for one. And another word for openness is curiosity, another obviously necessary factor in learning. Still, it’s an interesting way to think about academic achievement for anyone who grew up believing they did well in school simply because they were “smart.”
該研究結果中，盡責性和開放性都能使學生得到高分。其中盡責性很好理解，因為如果不能按時上交作業(yè)，再聰明似乎也沒什么意義。而開放性，它的另一重意思其實是好奇心，好奇對于學習也是一個至關重要的因素。想想，如果一個天才對身邊的一切都不感興趣，那就算他/她再聰明，也沒有什么用吧。