Same or Different? Clarifying the Relationship of Need for Cognition to Personality and Intelligence
Same or Different? Clarifying the Relationship of Need for Cognition to Personality and Intelligence
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DOI：
10.1177/0146167209351886
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发表时间：
2010-01-01
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4
通讯作者：
Strobel, Anja
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作者：
Fleischhauer, Monika;Enge, Soeren;Strobel, Anja
认知需要（NFC）是指个体参与并享受努力的认知过程的倾向。到目前为止，很少有人注意到系统的评价NFC的独特性，从性状与类似的概念化和智能。本研究有助于填补这一空白，通过检查NFC的关系，以完善的人格概念（研究1），并在一个样本具有广泛的教育背景（研究2）的智力的综合措施。我们观察到NFC与开放性、情绪稳定性和目标导向特征呈正相关。使用验证性因素分析和事件相关电位，NFC和思想开放性的增量效度被证明，表明NFC是更好的预测驱动相关和目标导向的行为和注意力资源分配。在智力方面，NFC与智力的流体方面比与智力的结晶方面更相关。总之，结果提供了强有力的支持NFC的概念自主性。
Need for cognition (NFC) refers to an individual's tendency to engage in and enjoy effortful cognitive processing. So far, little attention has been paid to a systematic evaluation of the distinctiveness of NFC from traits with similar conceptualization and from intelligence. The present research contributes to filling this gap by examining the relation of NFC to well-established personality concepts (Study 1) and to a comprehensive measure of intelligence in a sample with broad educational backgrounds (Study 2). We observed NFC to be positively correlated with openness, emotional stability, and traits indicating goal orientation. Using confirmatory factor analysis and event-related potentials, incremental validity of NFC and openness to ideas was demonstrated, showing that NFC is more predictive of drive-related and goal-oriented behavior and attentional resource allocation. Regarding intelligence, NFC was more associated with fluid than with crystallized aspects of intelligence. Altogether, the results provide strong support for the conceptual autonomy of NFC.