Research ArticleOpen AccessGoogle Scholar indexed
Personality and Intelligence in a High Ability Sample
Research Department of Clinical, Educational and Health Psychology, University College London, London, UK
Norwegian Business School, Oslo, Norway
- 1 Research Department of Clinical, Educational and Health Psychology, University College London, London, UK
- 2 Norwegian Business School, Oslo, Norway
Copy link · social · email
Abstract
In all 754 adults (518 males) in a high achieving school-leaver sample completed two intelligence tests (Ravens Progressive Matrices; Graduate Management Assessment Verbal and Numerical) and the 16PF. The study was concerned with the relationships between personality and intelligence. Correlational and regression analyses showed a few of the 16PF factors (particularly Reasoning and Sensitivity) to be related to the various cognitive ability test scores. The study shows that specific personality traits are modestly but consistently correlated with intelligence test scores. Implications are considered.
KeywordsPersonalityIntelligenceRavens16PFHigh Ability
- Abel, M., & Brown, K. (1998) Validity of the 16PF Reasoning Ability Scale. Psychological Reports, 83, 904-906.
- Aluja, A., & Blanch, A. (2004). Replicability of First-Order 16PF-S Factors. Personality and Individual Differences, 37, 667-677.
- Cattell, R., Cattell, A., & Cattell, H. (1990). 16PF: 5th Edition. New York: Psychological Corporation.
- Chamorro-Premuzic, T., & Furnham, A. (2004). A Possible Model for Understanding the Personality-Intelligence Interface. British Journal of Psychology, 95, 249-264.
- Chamorro-Premuzic, T., & Furnham, A. (2005). Personality and Intellectual Competence. New York: Lawrence Erlbaum.
- Chamorro-Premuzic, T., & Furnham, A. (2006). Intellectual Competence and the Intelligent Personality. Review of General Psychology, 10, 251-267.
- Chamorro-Premuzic, T., Furnham, A., & Moutafi, J. (2004). The Relationship between Estimated and Psychometric Personality and Intelligence Scores. Journal of Research in Personality, 38, 505-513.
- Djapo, N., Kolvenovic-Djapo, J., Djokic, R., & Fako, I. (2011). Relationship between Cattell’s 16PF and Fluid and Crystallised Intelligence. Personality and Individual Differences, 51, 63-67.
- Furnham, A. (2008). Personality and Intelligence at Work. London: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203938911
- Furnham, A., & Crump, J. (2013). The Sensitive, Imaginative, Articulate Art Students and Conservative Science Student. Learning and Indinvidual Differences, 25, 150-155.
- Furnham, A., & Moutafi, J. (2012). Personality, Age and Fluid Intelligence. Australian Journal of Psychology, 64, 128-137. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1742-9536.2011.00036.x
- Furnham, A., Forde, L., & Cotter, T. (1998). Personality and Intelligence. Personality and Individual Differences, 24, 187-192.
- Hofer, S., Horn, J., & Eber, H. (1997). A Robust Five-Factor Structure of the 16PF. Personality and Individual Differences, 23, 247-269.
- Kline, P. (1995). Handbook of Psychological Testing. London: Routledge.
- Moutafi, J., Furnham, A., & Paltiel, L. (2005). Can Personality and Demographic Factors Predict Intelligence? Personality and Individual Differences, 38, 1021-1033.
- O’Connor, M., & Paunonen, S. (2007). Big Five Personality Predictors of Post-Secondary Academic Performance. Personality and Individual Differences, 43, 971-990.