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Abstract
A recent meta-analysis on intelligence/personality relations (Stanek & Ones, 2023) produced markedly different results from previous findings for some personality traits. For example, traits such as Industriousness, Even-temper, and Compassion were nearly as strongly associated with general intelligence as were intellect-related personality traits. Here we find that many of these associations were heavily influenced by unusual results from the massive Project Talent Longitudinal Study (PTLS; N > 350,000, Flanagan et al., 1960), and that when the PTLS is excluded, the effect sizes decreased substantially, aligning more closely with previous findings. We discuss concerns about the construct validity of PTLS personality scales and about meta-analytic results involving those measures.
期刊介绍:
Emphasizing experimental and descriptive research, the Journal of Research in Personality presents articles that examine important issues in the field of personality and in related fields basic to the understanding of personality. The subject matter includes treatments of genetic, physiological, motivational, learning, perceptual, cognitive, and social processes of both normal and abnormal kinds in human and animal subjects. Features: • Papers that present integrated sets of studies that address significant theoretical issues relating to personality. • Theoretical papers and critical reviews of current experimental and methodological interest. • Single, well-designed studies of an innovative nature. • Brief reports, including replication or null result studies of previously reported findings, or a well-designed studies addressing questions of limited scope.