INTELLIGENCE, PERSONALITY, AND INTERESTS - EVIDENCE FOR OVERLAPPING TRAITS

The authors review the development of the modem paradigm for intellige nce assessment and application and consider the differentiation betwee n intelligence-as-maximal performance and intelligence-as-typical perf ormance. They review theories of intelligence, personality, and intere st as a means to establish potential overlap. Consideration of intelli gence-as-typical performance provides a basis for evaluation of intell igence-personality and intelligence-interest relations. Evaluation of relations among personality constructs, vocational interests, and inte llectual abilities provides evidence for communality across the domain s of personality of J. L. Holland's (1959) model of vocational interes ts. The authors provide an extensive meta-analysis of personality-inte llectual ability correlations, and a review of interest-intellectual a bility associations. They identify 4 trait complexes: social, clerical /conventional, science/math, and intellectual/cultural.