Investigating the relationship between cognitive abilities, memory function, and personality traits: A study of the WAIS-IV, WMS-IV, and NEO-FFI

IF 3.5 2区心理学 Q1 PSYCHOLOGY, SOCIAL

Personality and Individual Differences Pub Date : 2025-01-15 DOI:10.1016/j.paid.2025.113045

Krunoslav Matešić , Valentina Ružić , Slavka Galić

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Abstract

This study investigated the relationship between cognitive abilities measured using the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale-IV (WAIS-IV), memory functions measured using the Wechsler Memory Scales-IV (WMS-IV), and the five-factor model of personality, measured using the NEO Five-Factor Inventory (NEO-FFI). All three measures were given to 330 participants aged between 18 and 74 years. Regression analysis was used to calculate how personality traits and WAIS-IV indices predict achievement on memory indices in one model and how personality traits and WMS-IV indices predict cognitive functions (indices of WAIS-IV) in another.

The results show that personality traits, mainly Neuroticism and Openness, are best predictors of intelligence scores and that based on the results of personality and memory, it is possible to predict approximately 50 % of the variance of total IQ. Regarding the possibility of predicting memory functions, the results show that results in intelligence indices are not significant predictors of success in memory tasks, and that only Conscientiousness significantly predicts success on the visual working memory. Overall, results indicate that better inferences can be drawn about intelligence based on memory scores than vice versa.

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Personality and Individual Differences PSYCHOLOGY, SOCIAL-

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8.50

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4.70%

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577

审稿时长

41 days

期刊介绍： Personality and Individual Differences is devoted to the publication of articles (experimental, theoretical, review) which aim to integrate as far as possible the major factors of personality with empirical paradigms from experimental, physiological, animal, clinical, educational, criminological or industrial psychology or to seek an explanation for the causes and major determinants of individual differences in concepts derived from these disciplines. The editors are concerned with both genetic and environmental causes, and they are particularly interested in possible interaction effects.