The Relation between Personality, Mental Health and Academic Performance in University Students*

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This is one of a series of reports on the medical, psychological and social factors associated with mental illness or distress among university students. It is based on a sample of students followed through from their entry into college until they obtained their degrees or left. Here we report on the relation between personality, intelligence, psychological distress and ultimate academic performance.The results show that psychological distress is fairly widespread in the student population. Psychometric tests may indicate the potential for distress in a student, but they do not predict its actual occurrence, its likely severity or its effect on academic performance. Such tests may help in the early detection and therefore more efficient management of distress; but as part of a selection procedure they would exclude many highly successful students without massively reducing wastage.

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