OSOBINE LIČNOSTI, CILJNE ORIJENTACIJE I ŠKOLSKI USPJEH.

The aim of this study was to investigate the possibility of predicting school achievement through personality traits and goal orientations. A total of 222 second, third and fourth grade high school students participated in the study (65.8% girls). The Big Five Inventory was used to measure the five personality traits (Extraversion, Neuroticism, Conscientiousness, Agreeableness and Openness to experience) and the Components of Self Regulated Learning was used for measuring three goal orientations: learning goal orientation, performance goal orientation and work avoidance goal orientation. As a measure of school achievement, the following was gathered: students' previous grade point average, grade in Croatian language, mathematics, and first foreign language. The results of the hierarchical regression analyses suggested that Conscientiousness and Neuroticism are positive predictors of GPA and the grade in the Croatian language. Furthermore, Openness is a positive predictor, while Extraversion is a negative predictor of the grade in the first foreign language. Also, results have shown that learning goal orientation is a positive predictor of the grade in Croatian language. Finally, results have shown that learning goal orientation mediated the relationship between Conscientiousness and the grade in Croatian language. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]