Personality And Intellectual Competence

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.

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

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