how does personality related to self assessed intelligence
Does personality has any relation to self-assessed intelligence? It depends on the elements that contribute to personality.
What is personality? Personality is defined as the dynamic organisation within the individual of those psychophysical systems that determine his characteristic behaviour and thought (Allport, 1961, p.28).
On the other hand, intelligence is defined as a very general mental capability that, among other things, involves the ability to reason, plan, solve problems, think abstractly, comprehend complex ideas, learn quickly and learn from experience. It is not merely book learning, a narrow academic skill, or test-taking smarts. Rather it reflects a broader and deeper capability for comprehending our surroundings-“catching on,” “making sense” of things, or “figuring out” what to do. (Gottfredson, 1997a, p.l13).
Personality is generally enduring and stabilised when a person grows into adulthood. It does, to a certain extent, contribute to intelligence, which will be described below. Personality can be categorised under five components. They are trait, humanistic, cognitive, behavioural-learning and psychoanalytic and Neo psychoanalytic.
Trait
The most popular trait approach is The Big Five. It is an inventory of items which one responds on a five-point scale ranging from strongly disagree to strongly agree. It consists of statements to assess the five elements: (a) Openness – openness to experience and ideas. (b) Conscientiousness – self-discipline, achieving and responsible as oppose to irresponsible, careless and undependable (c) Extraversion – it rates an introvert or extrovert person (d) Agreeableness – it rates how friendly, nurturing and caring a person is as oppose to cold, indifference, spiteful and self-centred (e) Neuroticism – it refers to negative and upsetting emotion. People who rate high on neuroticism tend to be anxious, emotionally ‘sour’, irritable and unhappy.
Recent studies (Chamorro-Premuzic, Moutafi, &
What is personality? Personality is defined as the dynamic organisation within the individual of those psychophysical systems that determine his characteristic behaviour and thought (Allport, 1961, p.28).
On the other hand, intelligence is defined as a very general mental capability that, among other things, involves the ability to reason, plan, solve problems, think abstractly, comprehend complex ideas, learn quickly and learn from experience. It is not merely book learning, a narrow academic skill, or test-taking smarts. Rather it reflects a broader and deeper capability for comprehending our surroundings-“catching on,” “making sense” of things, or “figuring out” what to do. (Gottfredson, 1997a, p.l13).
Personality is generally enduring and stabilised when a person grows into adulthood. It does, to a certain extent, contribute to intelligence, which will be described below. Personality can be categorised under five components. They are trait, humanistic, cognitive, behavioural-learning and psychoanalytic and Neo psychoanalytic.
Trait
The most popular trait approach is The Big Five. It is an inventory of items which one responds on a five-point scale ranging from strongly disagree to strongly agree. It consists of statements to assess the five elements: (a) Openness – openness to experience and ideas. (b) Conscientiousness – self-discipline, achieving and responsible as oppose to irresponsible, careless and undependable (c) Extraversion – it rates an introvert or extrovert person (d) Agreeableness – it rates how friendly, nurturing and caring a person is as oppose to cold, indifference, spiteful and self-centred (e) Neuroticism – it refers to negative and upsetting emotion. People who rate high on neuroticism tend to be anxious, emotionally ‘sour’, irritable and unhappy.
Recent studies (Chamorro-Premuzic, Moutafi, &