The book provides a comprehensive overview of the current state of research on the factors influencing individual academic success and highlights the importance of the ability to translate intentions into (learning) actions, despite conflicting desires and emotional impulses. Within the framework of a systematic testing, which has primarily been conceptual and only empirically undertaken in a few cases, Daniela Heinze examines the relationship between volitional learning strategies and various objective and subjective measures of academic success based on a multitude of analyses.