Personality and intelligence: examining the associations of investment-related personality traits with general and specific intelligence
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2017-05-04
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In this study, we examine the associations of the scales of the California Psychological Inventory (CPI; a measure of personality traits) with intelligence measured by four cognitive ability tests, completed by a sample of 4876 working adults. We framed our analyses of the correlations around the investment perspective on the personality-intelligence relationship that proposes traits are associated with investment in intellectual activity, which develops cognitive abilities over time. In particular, we report associations between investment-related scales (Intellectual Efficiency, Flexibility, Achievement via Independence, Psychological-mindedness, and Tolerance) and a higher-order personality factor (Originality) of the CPI with intelligence measured at broad and narrow levels of abstraction. We found positive associations between investment-related scales, and Originality with observed ability test scores and factor g extracted from test scores. We found positive associations of traits with unique variance in verbal ability measures, but negative with measures of quantitative and visuo-spatial abilities. Our study extends the literature on investment theories of intelligence-personality relations, is the first study to examine the associations of multiple scales of the CPI with intelligence measures, and adds much needed data to the literature from a working adult sample.Publisher
HogrefeJournal
European Journal of Psychological AssessmentAdditional Links
https://econtent.hogrefe.com/doi/abs/10.1027/1015-5759/a000391Type
Journal articleLanguage
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This article does not exactly replicate the final version published in the journal "European Journal of Psychological Assessment". It is not a copy of the original published article and is not suitable for citationISSN
1015-5759ae974a485f413a2113503eed53cd6c53
10.1027/1015-5759/a000391
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