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The purposes of the present study were: (1) to replicate previous research
on social intelligence that shows social intelligence to be multidimensiona
l in nature and distinguishable from academic intelligence, (2) to extend p
rior research by assessing whether the crystallized/fluid distinction commo
nly discussed in the academic intelligence literature was applicable to the
domain of social intelligence, and (3) to explore whether a hierarchical m
odel of social and academic intelligences was consistent with the data. One
hundred and sixty-nine university students completed verbal, pictorial and
self-report measures of four constructs: social knowledge (hypothesized to
reflect crystallized social intelligence), social inference (hypothesized
to reflect fluid social intelligence), crystallized academic and fluid acad
emic intelligences. In addition, other-report measures were collected for t
hese constructs in this multitrait-multimethod study. Confirmatory factor a
nalyses replicated previous research, documenting that the four trait const
ructs showed convergent and discriminant validities. Similar analyses also
extended prior research by showing that the crystallized/fluid distinction
might be applicable in the social intelligence domain (although the evidenc
e was stronger for crystallized social intelligence than fluid social intel
ligence) and that a hierarchical model fits the data well. (C) 2000 Elsevie
r Science Ltd. All rights reserved.