Self-Estimated
Intelligence, Psychometric Intelligence and Personality
A. Furnham |
This
study looks at the relationship between personality traits (Big Five
personality traits), fluid (Gf) and subjectively-assessed (SAI) intelligence.
British university students together (N= 100) completed the NEO-PI-R
(Costa & McCrae, 1992), five intelligence tests, a measure of
Emotional Intelligence (EQ) and estimated their intellectual ability
on a normal distribution followed by six specific abilities. The
Wonderlic Personnel Test score was a significant predictor of three
estimates: EQ of two; and Openness to Experience of five of these
estimates. The most variance accounted for was 16 per cent when regressing
intelligence the Big Five personality traits and emotional intelligence
onto SAI scores. The five intelligence tests correlated significantly
with each other. Males give higher overall IQ self estimates (114.4
vs 106.4) and higher overall vocabulary scores (116.0 vs 106.5).
Regressing the six specific abilities onto the overall estimate showed
three to be significant (Vocabulary, Ability to learn new things,
Cultural Knowledge). Key words: Openness, Big Five traits, subjectively-assessed and psychometric intelligence |