A MULTITRAIT-MULTIMETHOD STUDY OF ACADEMIC AND SOCIAL INTELLIGENCE INCOLLEGE-STUDENTS

Two multitrait-multimethod studies of academic and social intelligence s show that cognitive and behavioral aspects of social intelligence (E xperiment 1) and several cognitive aspects of social intelligence (i.e ., social perception, social knowledge, and social insight; Experiment 2) can be discriminated. Verbal, nonverbal, self-, and other-report m easures were administered to 134 female college students (Experiment 1 ) and to 227 male and female college students (Experiment 2). Converge nt and discriminant validities were established for cognitive and beha vioral dimensions of social intelligence (Experiment 1) and for two di mensions of cognitive social intelligence (social knowledge and social perception; Experiment 2). In both studies, the cognitive social inte lligence factors had poor convergent validities, and research particip ants were college students attending a highly selective university.