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

IF 2.6 2区心理学 Q1 PSYCHOLOGY, SOCIAL Personality and Individual Differences Pub Date : 2025-04-01 Epub 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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认知能力、记忆功能与人格特质的关系研究：WAIS-IV、WMS-IV和NEO-FFI的研究

本研究探讨了韦氏成人智力量表- iv （WAIS-IV）测量的认知能力、韦氏记忆量表- iv （WMS-IV）测量的记忆功能和NEO五因素量表（NEO- ffi）测量的人格五因素模型之间的关系。330名年龄在18岁到74岁之间的参与者接受了这三种测量方法。采用回归分析计算人格特质和WMS-IV指数在一个模型中对记忆成绩的预测，以及人格特质和WMS-IV指数在另一个模型中对认知功能（WAIS-IV指数）的预测。结果表明，性格特征，主要是神经质和开放性，是智力得分的最佳预测指标，并且基于性格和记忆的结果，可以预测总智商方差的大约50%。在预测记忆功能的可能性方面，研究结果表明，智力指标的结果不能显著预测记忆任务的成功，只有责任心能显著预测视觉工作记忆的成功。总的来说，研究结果表明，基于记忆分数得出的智力结论要比基于记忆分数得出的结论更好。

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Personality and Individual Differences PSYCHOLOGY, SOCIAL-

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577

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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.