The HEXACO personality traits as predictors of Chinese undergraduates’ academic performance – Retracted

• Longlong Zhao

  School of Philosophy, Renmin University of China, People's Republic of China, and Department of Political Science, University College London

• Peng Su

  School of Marxism, University of Chinese Academy of Social Sciences

• Yuansheng Yang

  Jingheng Yi School of Education, Hangzhou Normal University

This paper has been retracted.

Zhao, L., Su, P., & Yang, Y. (2024). Retraction: The HEXACO personality traits as predictors of Chinese undergraduates’ academic performance. Social Behavior and Personality: An international journal, 52(6), e14329. https://doi.org/10.2224/sbp.14329

To verify the association between personality traits and academic performance in a university setting, we collected the grade point average (GPA) and six personality characteristics (honesty–humility, emotionality, extraversion, agreeableness, conscientiousness, and openness to experience) of 349 students at a university in China. According to the results, there were positive associations between GPA and honesty–humility, emotionality, extraversion, agreeableness, conscientiousness, and openness to experience. Additionally, honesty–humility, extraversion, agreeableness, and openness to experience explained 30.72% of the variance in GPA. On the basis of the above findings, two conclusions can be made: First, undergraduates’ GPA is associated with these six personality traits; second, undergraduates’ honesty–humility, extraversion, agreeableness, and openness to experience may help to explain the variance in their GPA.

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