Table 3.

Phenotypic correlations between two Grit subscales, Big-5 personality factors and GCSE scores (95% confidence intervals in parentheses).

	C	N	E	O	A	CoI	P	GCSE
Conscientiousness C	1.00
Neuroticism (N)	−0.18 (−0.20, −0.15)	1.00
Extraversion (E)	0.20 (0.17, 0.23)	−0.38 (−0.41, −0.35)	1.00
Openness (O)	0.06 (0.03, 0.09)	−0.06 (−0.09, −0.03)	0.22 (0.19, 0.25)	1.00
Agreeableness (A)	0.29 (0.26, 0.29)	−0.19 (−0.21, −0.16)	0.15 (0.12, 0.18)	0.20 (0.17, 0.23)	1.00
Consistency of Interest (CoI)	0.28 (0.25, 0.30)	−0.19 (−0.21, −0.16)	0.07 (0.04, 0.10)	−0.10 (−0.13, −0.07)	0.10 (0.09, 0.13)	1.00
Perseverance (P)	0.53 (0.50, 0.55)	−0.31 (−0.36, −0.28)	0.27 (0.24, 0.30)	0.08 (0.05, 0.08)	0.18 (0.15, 0.20)	0.29 (0.26, 0.31)	1.00
GCSE core	0.24 (0.21, 0.27)	0.02 (−0.01, 0.05)	0.04 (0.01, 0.07)	0.09 (0.05, 0.12)	0.03 (0.01, 0.07)	0.06 (0.03, 0.09)	0.17 (0.13, 0.20)	1.00