Epistemic behavior does not mediate the relation of cognitive ability or curiosity with academic performance¶
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q3 i? In latent change score mediation models, the indirect effect of cognitive ability on secondary grades via epistemic behavior was not significant, disconfirming the environmental enrichment hypothesis. → Mussel 2022
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Mussel 2022¶
Mussel, Patrick. (2022). Processes Underlying the Relation between Cognitive Ability and Curiosity with Academic Performance: A Mediation Analysis for Epistemic Behavior in a Five-Year Longitudinal Study. Journal of Intelligence 10: 23. https://doi.org/10.3390/jintelligence10020023
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Hierarchical latent change score mediation model with robust maximum likelihood, full sample (N = 1965, full information likelihood), Results section. The article concludes "the mediation effect was not supported" for cognitive ability predicting secondary GPA via epistemic behavior.
"While the direct effect of cognitive ability at T1 on grades remained significant, neither the regression from cognitive ability on epistemic behavior nor the regression from epistemic behavior on grades and, subsequently, the indirect effect approached significance."
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Learner Variables¶
- General Cognitive Ability — predictor: learners who differ on it differ in outcomes
Related Claims¶
- Cognitive ability and curiosity are positively correlated in young adults — related
- Secondary academic performance is predicted by cognitive ability more strongly than by curiosity — related
- Epistemic behavior relates to curiosity but not to cognitive ability — related
- Exploratory: leisure epistemic behavior mediates the relation of cognitive ability with tertiary academic performance, with a very small effect — reports the opposite
- Neither cognitive ability, curiosity, nor epistemic behavior significantly predicts tertiary academic performance in the heterogeneous sample — related
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Epistemic behavior does not mediate the relation of cognitive ability or curiosity with academic performance |
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Epistemic behavior does not mediate the relation of cognitive ability or curiosity with academic performance |
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