Personality And Intellectual Competence

by Chamorro-Premuzic, Tomas; Furnham, Adrian

• ISBN13: 9780805851366
• ISBN10: 0805851364
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2005-02-10
• Publisher: Lawrence Erlbau

Summary

This book provides a review of personality and intelligence, as well as covering other variables underlying academic and occupational performance. It attempts to develop a comprehensive model to understand individual difference.

Table of Contents

Preface	xi
Overview: Predicting Future Achievement	1	(2)
Personality Traits	3	(21)
History of Personality Traits	4	(3)
Personality Traits and States	7	(2)
Eysenck's Gigantic Three and the Biological Basis of Personality Traits	9	(6)
Cattell's 16PF and the Lexical Hypothesis	15	(1)
The Five Factor Model (Big Five)	16	(7)
Summary and Conclusions	23	(1)
Intellectual Ability	24	(18)
History of Intelligence Testing	25	(3)
Psychometric Intelligence and the Notion of g	28	(1)
Cattell's Theory of Fluid and Crystallized Intelligence	29	(2)
Genetic Versus Environmental Causes of Intelligence	31	(2)
Piaget and the Developmental Theory of Cognitive Ability	33	(1)
Debate: g Versus Multiple Abilities	34	(3)
Other Approaches: Emotional, Social, and Practical Intelligence	37	(3)
Summary and Conclusions	40	(2)
The Personality--Intelligence Interface	42	(26)
Arousability Theory and the Biological Basis of Personality and Intelligence	43	(3)
Top--Down Approaches	46	(2)
Personality and IQ Test Performance	48	(1)
Neuroticism and Test Anxiety	49	(5)
Extraversion and Test-Taking Style (Speed vs. Accuracy)	54	(2)
Investment Theories	56	(1)
Openness to Experience (Need for Cognition)	56	(6)
Typical Intellectual Engagement (TIE)	62	(1)
Agreeableness, Modesty, and Test-Taking Attitudes	63	(2)
Conscientiousness (Need for Achievement)	65	(1)
Summary and Conclusions	66	(2)
Personality and Intelligence as Predictors of Academic and Work Performance	68	(25)
Psychometric Intelligence and the Prediction of AP	70	(2)
Personality Traits and the Prediction of AP	72	(1)
The Gigantic Three and AP	73	(1)
Neuroticism, Worry, and Exam Stress	74	(3)
Extraversion and Study Habits	77	(2)
Psychoticism and Poor AP	79	(1)
Openness and AP	80	(1)
Agreeableness and AP	81	(2)
Conscientiousness and AP	83	(1)
Current Directions on Personality Traits and AP	84	(1)
Success in the Workplace	85	(2)
Evidence Versus Belief	87	(1)
Personality Traits and WP	88	(4)
Summary and Conclusions	92	(1)
Self-Concepts and Subjectively Assessed Intelligence (SAI)	93	(30)
Intelligence From a Lay Perspective	96	(2)
History of Lay Conceptions of Intelligence Research	98	(3)
Sternberg's Research on Lay Conceptions of Intelligence	101	(2)
Gender Differences in SAI	103	(4)
Estimating Relatives' Scores	107	(3)
Culture Differences in Estimated Intelligence	110	(2)
Estimates of Other and Multiple Intelligences	112	(2)
Correlations Between Self-Estimated and Psychometrically Measured IQ	114	(3)
SAI and AP	117	(2)
SAI and Personality Traits	119	(1)
Summary and Conclusions	120	(3)
Individual Differences and Real-Life Outcomes	123	(21)
Leadership	124	(5)
Creativity	129	(8)
Art Judgment	137	(5)
Summary and Conclusions	142	(2)
Overall Summary and Conclusions	144	(7)
References	151	(30)
Author Index	181	(8)
Subject Index	189