Who wants to take an intelligence test? Personality and achievement motivation in the context of ability testing
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In: Personality and Individual Differences, Vol. 50, No. 5, 04.2011, p. 723-728 .
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T1 - Who wants to take an intelligence test? Personality and achievement motivation in the context of ability testing
AU - Freund, Philipp Alexander
AU - Holling, Heinz
PY - 2011/4
Y1 - 2011/4
N2 - This article examines the role of the BIG 5 and general mental ability (GMA) for the prediction of current achievement motivation (CAM) in an ability testing context. A total of 189 participants took two figural matrices tests, and 90 of them received a training intervention between tests. Separate analyses for both tests showed openness, conscientiousness, and neuroticism to significantly predict CAM. Also, more intelligent persons were more interested and more confident. Training had an additional impact on probability of success. CAM in turn significantly predicted matrices test performance and test times beyond GMA. The results show that the BIG 5 can be used to understand what kind of persons are really motivated in experimental testing situations, and how strongly test performance is tied not only to GMA, but also to CAM.
AB - This article examines the role of the BIG 5 and general mental ability (GMA) for the prediction of current achievement motivation (CAM) in an ability testing context. A total of 189 participants took two figural matrices tests, and 90 of them received a training intervention between tests. Separate analyses for both tests showed openness, conscientiousness, and neuroticism to significantly predict CAM. Also, more intelligent persons were more interested and more confident. Training had an additional impact on probability of success. CAM in turn significantly predicted matrices test performance and test times beyond GMA. The results show that the BIG 5 can be used to understand what kind of persons are really motivated in experimental testing situations, and how strongly test performance is tied not only to GMA, but also to CAM.
KW - Psychology
KW - Achievement motivation
KW - BIG 5
KW - Intelligence test
KW - Personality
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=79551614589&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1016/j.paid.2010.12.025
DO - 10.1016/j.paid.2010.12.025
M3 - Journal articles
VL - 50
SP - 723
EP - 728
JO - Personality and Individual Differences
JF - Personality and Individual Differences
SN - 0191-8869
IS - 5
ER -