Is There a “Gifted Personality”? Initial Evidence for Differences between MENSA and General Population Members in the HEXACO Personality Inventory
- Autor(en)
- Jonathan Fries, Kristof Kovacs, Elisabeth L. Zeilinger, Jakob Pietschnig
- Abstrakt
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.
- Organisation(en)
- Institut für Psychologie der Entwicklung und Bildung
- Externe Organisation(en)
- Eötvös Loránd University Budapest, Medizinische Universität Wien
- Journal
- Journal of Intelligence
- Band
- 10
- ISSN
- 2079-3200
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.3390/jintelligence10040092
- Publikationsdatum
- 10-2022
- Peer-reviewed
- Ja
- ÖFOS 2012
- 501018 Psychologische Diagnostik, 501004 Differentielle Psychologie
- Schlagwörter
- ASJC Scopus Sachgebiete
- Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Education, Developmental and Educational Psychology, Cognitive Neuroscience
- Link zum Portal
- https://ucris.univie.ac.at/portal/de/publications/is-there-a-gifted-personality-initial-evidence-for-differences-between-mensa-and-general-population-members-in-the-hexaco-personality-inventory(d67a10f7-4ccc-413a-b057-c1806467709a).html