Personality and Intellectual Competence

This book provides a comprehensive state-of-the-art review of personality and intelligence, as well as covering other variables underlying academic and occupational performance. Personality and Intellectual Competence is a unique attempt to develop a comprehensive model to understand individual difference by relating major personality dimensions to cognitive ability measures, academic and job performance, and self-assessed abilities, as well as other traditional constructs such as leadership and creativity. It will be essential reading for anyone interested in personality, intelligence, and the prediction of future achievement in general. Personality and Intellectual Competence is an outstanding account of the relationship between major individual differences constructs. With its informative summary of the last century of research in the field, this book provides a robust and systematic theoretical background for understanding the psychological determinants of future achievement. The authors have sought to combine technical expertise with applied interests, making this a groundbreaking theoretical tool for anyone concerned with the scientific prediction of human performance.

Chamorro-Premuzic, Tomas; Furnham, Adrian

Contents: Preface. Overview: Predicting Future Achievement. Personality Traits. Intellectual Ability. The Personality-Intelligence Interface. Personality and Intelligence as Predictors of Academic and Work Performance. Self-Concepts and Subjectively Assessed Intelligence (SAI). Individual Differences and Real-Life Outcomes. Overall Summary and Conclusions.