{"title":"Psychosocial Determinants of the Need for Cognition in Individuals with High Academic Achievements","authors":"Agnieszka Żmuda","doi":"10.18290/rpsych2023.0004","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"The aim of the research was to verify what factors determine the level of the need for cognition (NFC) in students and doctoral students with high academic achievements. The project involved 207 participants: 102 individuals with high achievements and 105 without great scientific successes. The following tools were used: the Questionnaire of the Need for Cognition (in Polish adaptation), the Formal Characteristics of Behavior – Temperament Questionnaire Revised Version, the Popular Emotional Intelligence Questionnaire and the Questionnaire of Retrospectively Perceived Parental Attitudes. Research results indicate that in people with high academic achievement, emotional intelligence, activity and perceived mother’s inconsistency positively influence the need for cognition. In the comparison group, emotional intelligence is a positive predictor of NFC and the perceived attitude of father’s inconsistency is a negative predictor of NFC.","PeriodicalId":38005,"journal":{"name":"Roczniki Psychologiczne","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2023-02-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Roczniki Psychologiczne","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.18290/rpsych2023.0004","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q4","JCRName":"Psychology","Score":null,"Total":0}
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The aim of the research was to verify what factors determine the level of the need for cognition (NFC) in students and doctoral students with high academic achievements. The project involved 207 participants: 102 individuals with high achievements and 105 without great scientific successes. The following tools were used: the Questionnaire of the Need for Cognition (in Polish adaptation), the Formal Characteristics of Behavior – Temperament Questionnaire Revised Version, the Popular Emotional Intelligence Questionnaire and the Questionnaire of Retrospectively Perceived Parental Attitudes. Research results indicate that in people with high academic achievement, emotional intelligence, activity and perceived mother’s inconsistency positively influence the need for cognition. In the comparison group, emotional intelligence is a positive predictor of NFC and the perceived attitude of father’s inconsistency is a negative predictor of NFC.
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Roczniki Psychologiczne / Annals of Psychology, the continuation of Annals of Philosophy: Psychology, is an academic journal edited by The Scientific Society of the John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin [Towarzystwo Naukowe KUL]. It aims to present up-to-date and original empirical results and influential theoretical considerations in various areas of psychology as well as to promote new and creative ideas in research and psychological methods. The Journal accepts contributions of three kinds: 1) original peer reviewed articles on both empirical and conceptual topics, 2) short communications, and 3) polemics, which consist of a focus article followed by peer commentaries and a response by the author of the focus article.