„Self-regulation, agreeableness, visual-motor skills, and prosocial behaviour in early childhood all predict adult educational attainment, such as completing a degree. Both self-regulation and early agreeableness have been found to be associated with higher academic attainment in adulthood, even after adjusting for earlier cognitive ability. Early self-regulation has also been found to be a stronger predictor of degree completion by the age of 25 than early reading or maths scores.“
OECD (Hrsg.), Early Learning and Child Well‑being (2020), S. 21.