Is Conscientiousness a useful construct across cultures? Using the 2012 Program for International Student Assessment data, we examined whether perseverance, a measure of Conscientiousness, was related to achievement and truancy across 62 countries/regions (N > 470,000). We investigated whether these relationships were linear or curvilinear in nature and assessed the utility of item-level information. After establishing partial metric invariance of the perseverance measure across various countries/regions and cultural regions, our findings unveiled that perseverance consistently predicted both math achievement and truancy, with predominantly linear associations. Notably, among the five items of the Perseverance scale, the item reflecting one's tendency to give up easily in the face of challenges emerged as the strongest and most consistent predictor of math achievement. Further, country-level correlations between perseverance and both math achievement and truancy displayed contradictory patterns compared to individual-level correlations, suggesting the presence of biasing factors in how people respond to these measures. Nonetheless, it appears reasonable to conclude that measures of Conscientiousness are pan-cultural predictors of achievement and truancy. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2024 APA, all rights reserved).

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毅力是责任心的衡量标准，是全球范围内成就和逃学的有效预测指标。


责任心是一个跨文化的有用概念吗？我们利用 2012 年国际学生评估计划的数据，研究了 62 个国家/地区 (N > 470,000) 的毅力（一种责任心的衡量标准）是否与成绩和逃学有关。我们研究了这些关系本质上是线性的还是曲线的，并评估了项目级信息的效用。在建立了不同国家/地区和文化区域的毅力测量的部分度量不变性后，我们的研究结果表明，毅力始终可以预测数学成绩和逃学，并且主要呈线性关联。值得注意的是，在毅力量表的五个项目中，反映一个人在面临挑战时容易放弃的倾向的项目成为数学成绩最有力、最一致的预测指标。此外，与个人层面的相关性相比，毅力与数学成绩和逃学之间的国家层面的相关性显示出矛盾的模式，这表明人们对这些措施的反应存在偏见因素。尽管如此，似乎可以合理地得出这样的结论：责任心的衡量标准是成就和逃学的泛文化预测指标。 （PsycInfo 数据库记录 (c) 2024 APA，保留所有权利）。