Download full text
(external source)
Citation Suggestion
Please use the following Persistent Identifier (PID) to cite this document:
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jrp.2016.03.005
Exports for your reference manager
The association between personality and cognitive ability: Going beyond simple effects
[journal article]
Abstract To examine the relationship between the Big Five and cognitive ability, we investigated whether we could replicate in a heterogeneous population sample the positive association between cognitive ability and Openness and Emotional Stability and its negative association with Conscientiousness. Besides... view more
To examine the relationship between the Big Five and cognitive ability, we investigated whether we could replicate in a heterogeneous population sample the positive association between cognitive ability and Openness and Emotional Stability and its negative association with Conscientiousness. Besides analyzing the pure associations, we shed further light on sources of these associations by investigating potential moderating effects of education and labor force participation. Our results clearly replicate the previously found positive association between cognitive ability and Emotional Stability and Openness and the negative relationship between Conscientiousness and cognitive ability. The correlation between cognitive ability and Openness was found to be moderated by educational attainment, the negative association between Conscientiousness and cognitive ability was moderated by labor force participation.... view less
Keywords
cognitive ability; literacy; reading; arithmetic; emotionality; psychological factors; obligation; personality; measurement; association (psych.); intelligence; level of education; gainfully employed person
Classification
Personality Psychology
Free Keywords
Cognitive ability; Literacy; Numeracy; Personality; Big Five; PIAAC; Education
Document language
English
Publication Year
2016
Page/Pages
p. 39-44
Journal
Journal of Research in Personality, 62 (2016)
ISSN
0092-6566
Status
Published Version; peer reviewed