Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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893046 | Personality and Individual Differences | 2007 | 9 Pages |
Abstract
Four hundred and thirty students from four universities completed a well-validated general knowledge test (Irwing, Cammock, & Lynn, 2001), a learning styles questionnaire (Biggs, 1987), and a measure of the Big Five personality variables (Costa & McCrae, 1992). Correlational and regressional analysis indicated that over and above age and gender two factors were most predictive of general knowledge and accounted for around a fifth of the variance: a surface learning style and openness to experience. Results are discussed in terms of the aetiology of crystallised intelligence.
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Authors
Adrian Furnham, Andrew N. Christopher, Jeanette Garwood, G. Neil Martin,