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Is There a "Gifted Personality"? Initial Evidence for Differences between MENSA and General Population Members in the HEXACO Personality Inventory.
| Content Provider | Europe PMC |
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| Author | Fries, Jonathan Kovacs, Kristof Zeilinger, Elisabeth L. Pietschnig, Jakob |
| Copyright Year | 2022 |
| Abstract | Contrary to the common notion that personality and intelligence are unrelated constructs, numerous correlational studies have demonstrated substantial associations between the two domains. Moreover, samples of intellectually gifted individuals have been found to differ from the general population in specific aspects of their personalities. However, most studies so far have relied on the Five-Factor Model of Personality (FFM), while none have investigated this phenomenon using the HEXACO personality framework. We recruited 617 adult members of the international high-IQ society MENSA and compared them to 3 reference samples (combined N = 112,637) regarding their personalities as measured by the HEXACO-60 personality inventory. We found that gifted persons scored higher in Honesty-Humility and Conscientiousness but lower in Emotionality compared to reference samples. Interestingly, gifted individuals scored only slightly higher in Openness to Experience, and no consistent differences emerged for Agreeableness. We demonstrate that some known personality differences between gifted and non-gifted persons translate from the FFM to the HEXACO model, while others do not. Our results indicate that within the HEXACO factor structure differences in sociability are more pronounced, while intellect-related differences are comparatively weak. |
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| Journal | Journal of Intelligence [J Intell] |
| Volume Number | 10 |
| DOI | 10.3390/jintelligence10040092 |
| PubMed Central reference number | PMC9680308 |
| Issue Number | 4 |
| PubMed reference number | 36412773 |
| e-ISSN | 20793200 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | MDPI |
| Publisher Date | 2022-10-26 |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Rights License | Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). © 2022 by the authors. |
| Subject Keyword | giftedness personality cognitive ability HEXACO group differences |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
| Subject | Education Experimental and Cognitive Psychology Developmental and Educational Psychology Cognitive Neuroscience |
