This research focused on whether flexibility, measured by the Battery of Interpersonal Capabilities and the Dogmatism Scale, is related to college achievement. Over-all, the findings suggest that the academic progress of a random sample of university freshmen tracked for five years appears to be related to their flexibility scores. This study seems to be the first of its kind and, although differences tend to be small, a specific pattern of results emerged.
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