General and current information and its relationship with the student’s intelligence and personality

The aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between intelligence, personality and the extent of general and current information of students in the state of Minas Gerais. Two sample groups participated. The first was composed of students from three socially vulnerable levels from the ci...

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Autores: FLORES-MENDOZA, Carmen, JARDIM, Graciane Lopes, ABAD, Francisco José, RODRIGUES, Larissa Assunção
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2010
País:Brasil
Institución:Pontifícia Universidade Católica de Campinas (PUC-CAMPINAS)
Repositorio:Estudos de Psicologia (Campinas)
Idioma:portugués
OAI Identifier:oai:ojs.periodicos.puc-campinas.edu.br:article/7135
Acceso en línea:https://periodicos.puc-campinas.edu.br/estpsi/article/view/7135
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Informação
Inteligência
Psicoticismo
Personalidade
Information
Intelligence
Psychoticism
Personality
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Sumario:The aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between intelligence, personality and the extent of general and current information of students in the state of Minas Gerais. Two sample groups participated. The first was composed of students from three socially vulnerable levels from the city of Belo Horizonte (n=600), and the second group came from public schools in the city of Perdões (n=215). The Raven’sProgressive Matrices Test and a General Information Questionnaire were applied for both samples. In addition, the Eysenck Personality Questionnaire and the WISC-III Information test were applied to the second sample. The results indicated a consistent relationship between intelligence and General Information Questionnaire, even after smoothing the effect of the social vulnerability of the schools (r=0.431). A pathanalysis showed an independent effect of intelligence (r=0.430) and of the Psychoticism dimension (-0.18) on the General Information Questionnaire, even after the smoothing of age and co-variance between predictors. It may be concluded that intelligence explains GeneralInformation Questionnaire differences twice as much as does personality.