Personality And Intellectual Competence

by Chamorro-Premuzic, Tomas; Furnham, Adrian

• ISBN13: 9780805860177
• ISBN10: 0805860177
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-11-23
• Publisher: Lawrence Erlbau

Summary

This book provides a comprehensive state-of-the-art review of personality and intelligence, as well as covering other variables underlying academic and occupational performance. Personality and Intellectual Competenceis a unique attempt to develop a comprehensive model to understand individual difference by relating major personality dimensions to cognitive ability measures, academic and job performance, and self-assessed abilities, as well as other traditional constructs such as leadership and creativity. It will be essential reading for anyone interested in personality, intelligence, and the prediction of future achievement in general. Personality and Intellectual Competenceis an outstanding account of the relationship between major individual differences constructs. With its informative summary of the last century of research in the field, this book provides a robust and systematic theoretical background for understanding the psychological determinants of future achievement. The authors have sought to combine technical expertise with applied interests, making this a groundbreaking theoretical tool for anyone concerned with the scientific prediction of human performance.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. xi
Overview: Predicting Future Achievement	p. 1
Personality Traits	p. 3
History of Personality Traits	p. 4
Personality Traits and States	p. 7
Eysenck's Gigantic Three and the Biological Basis of Personality Traits	p. 9
Cattell's 16PF and the Lexical Hypothesis	p. 15
The Five Factor Model (Big Five)	p. 16
Summary and Conclusions	p. 23
Intellectual Ability	p. 24
History of Intelligence Testing	p. 25
Psychometric Intelligence and the Notion of g	p. 28
Cattell's Theory of Fluid and Crystallized Intelligence	p. 29
Genetic Versus Environmental Causes of Intelligence	p. 31
Piaget and the Developmental Theory of Cognitive Ability	p. 33
Debate: g Versus Multiple Abilities	p. 34
Other Approaches: Emotional, Social, and Practical Intelligence	p. 37
Summary and Conclusions	p. 40
The Personality-Intelligence Interface	p. 42
Arousability Theory and the Biological Basis of Personality and Intelligence	p. 43
Top-Down Approaches	p. 46
Personality and IQ Test Performance	p. 48
Neuroticism and Test Anxiety	p. 49
Extraversion and Test-Taking Style (Speed vs. Accuracy)	p. 54
Investment Theories	p. 56
Openness to Experience (Need for Cognition)	p. 56
Typical Intellectual Engagement (TIE)	p. 62
Agreeableness, Modesty, and Test-Taking Attitudes	p. 63
Conscientiousness (Need for Achievement)	p. 65
Summary and Conclusions	p. 66
Personality and Intelligence as Predictors of Academic and Work Performance	p. 68
Psychometric Intelligence and the Prediction of AP	p. 70
Personality Traits and the Prediction of AP	p. 72
The Gigantic Three and AP	p. 73
Neuroticism, Worry, and Exam Stress	p. 74
Extraversion and Study Habits	p. 77
Psychoticism and Poor AP	p. 79
Openness and AP	p. 80
Agreeableness and AP	p. 81
Conscientiousness and AP	p. 83
Current Directions on Personality Traits and AP	p. 84
Success in the Workplace	p. 85
Evidence Versus Belief	p. 87
Personality Traits and WP	p. 88
Summary and Conclusions	p. 92
Self-Concepts and Subjectively Assessed Intelligence (SAI)	p. 93
Intelligence From a Lay Perspective	p. 96
History of Lay Conceptions of Intelligence Research	p. 98
Sternberg's Research on Lay Conceptions of Intelligence	p. 101
Gender Differences in SAI	p. 103
Estimating Relatives' Scores	p. 107
Culture Differences in Estimated Intelligence	p. 110
Estimates of Other and Multiple Intelligences	p. 112
Correlations Between Self-Estimated and Psychometrically Measured IQ	p. 114
SAI and AP	p. 117
SAI and Personality Traits	p. 119
Summary and Conclusions	p. 120
Individual Differences and Real-Life Outcomes	p. 123
Leadership	p. 124
Creativity	p. 129
Art Judgment	p. 137
Summary and Conclusions	p. 142
Overall Summary and Conclusions	p. 144
References	p. 151
Author Index	p. 181
Subject Index	p. 189
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