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A new study links doing one's homework, being interested and behaving responsibly in high school to better academic and career success as many as 50 years later. This effect, reported in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, holds true even after accounting for parental income, IQ and other factors known to influence achievement, researchers report.
The study analyzed decades of data collected by the American Institutes for Research beginning in 1960 and continuing to the present. The original data set included more than 370,000 students. High school participants were originally tested on academic, cognitive and behavioral characteristics in 1960 and also responded to follow-up surveys in later years. The new analysis looked at the initial student tests and their responses 11 years and 50 years later.
Of the 1,952 participants randomly selected from those who responded to surveys 50 years later, "those who showed more interest in high school and had higher writing skills reported earning higher incomes," said Spengler, who led the study. "They also tended to have higher occupational prestige than their peers when they showed responsible behaviors as a student." This was in addition to the gains associated with IQ, family income and personality traits such as conscientiousness, she said.
https://phys.org/news/2018-02-links-responsible-behavior-high-school.html
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Behavior in high school predicts income and occupational success later in life
American Psychological Association
[Source]: University of Illinois
The paper "How you behave in school predicts life success above and beyond family background, broad traits, and cognitive ability" is available online and from the U. of I. News Bureau. DOI
Has your experience been as described ??
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 28 2018, @07:45PM (4 children)
Cool, never would have guessed that how well people do in an academic environment is a predictor for how well those people do in an academic environment.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 28 2018, @07:57PM (3 children)
You forgot the "better academic and career success. Did you skip out a lot during high school?
(Score: 2) by Snow on Wednesday February 28 2018, @08:09PM (1 child)
I skipped my VB programming class so much that when the vice-principal would look for people skipping, he would pass right by me because I was ALWAYS in the cafeteria at that time. I think I went to like 5 classes, and was able to complete the coursework in those 5 classes (the entire course was essentially to code a blackjack game).
Today, I am moderately successful. I'm comfortable -- not rich, not poor. I have a pretty good job that has almost no chance for promotion/advancement with a good company.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by The Mighty Buzzard on Wednesday February 28 2018, @10:46PM
Responsibility doesn't mean doing what you're told, just owning your actions and the consequences. In your case it kept your mind from being poisoned, so a good consequence.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 28 2018, @08:49PM
Do you understand the word "and"?
Saying that a person is successful in "academics and [their] career" means that both of the following are statements true:
(a) that the person is successful in academics, and
(b) that the person is successful in their career.
(a) is a tautology because the premise was that the person does well in academics.