The association between personality and cognitive ability: Going beyond simple effects

Journal article | Zeitschriftenartikel

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.

Object Details

• ISSN: 0092-6566
• Extent: Seite(n): 39-44
• Language: Englisch
• Notes: Status: Veröffentlichungsversion; begutachtet (peer reviewed)

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Journal of Research in Personality, 62

Classification and Topics

• Subject: Psychologie ; Persönlichkeitspsychologie ; kognitive Fähigkeit ; Alphabetisierung ; Lesen ; Rechnen ; Emotionalität ; psychische Faktoren ; Pflicht ; Persönlichkeit ; Messung ; Assoziation ; Intelligenz ; Bildungsniveau ; Erwerbstätiger

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Rammstedt, Beatrice ; Danner, Daniel ; Martin, Silke
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (where): Niederlande
• (when): 2016

Further information

• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jrp.2016.03.005
• Rights: GESIS - Leibniz-Institut für Sozialwissenschaften. Bibliothek Köln
• Last update: 21.06.2024, 4:26 PM CEST