Measurement of the Relative Contribution of Liquid Intelligence in Predicting Personality Traits in a Sample of General Secondary Students in the Governorate of Damascus

Abstract

Abstract

The study aims at tracing the degree of liquid intelligence using the Raven test for the Standard Progressive Matrices (SPM) and the Eysenck Personal Questionnaire of Secondary Students according to the short-term EPQR-S, identifying differences in both liquid intelligence and personality traits according to gender and specialization variables, and measuring the relative contribution of liquid intelligence in each characteristic of personality. The sample consisted of / 610 / secondary school students in Damascus randomly selected from some schools in Damascus. The results of the study showed that there were no statistically significant differences according to the gender variable in the two categories (psychosis and lying) in favor of females. The results of the study showed that there were no statistically significant differences according to the gender variable in the two categories (psychosis and lying).

The results of the study showed that there were no statistically significant differences in accordance with the gender variable in the two categories Psychosis and Lie. It also showed the existence of statistically significant differences in the traits of Extraversion and Neuroticism in favor of females. The results of the study showed that there were no statistically significant differences in accordance with the gender variable in the two categories Psychosis and Lie. It also showed the existence of statistically significant differences in the traits of Extraversion and Neuroticism in favor of females.

The study also reached to the conclusion that there were no statistically significant differences according to the specialization variable in the traits of (Psychosis, Extraversion and Lie), and to the existence of statistically significant differences in the trait of the "literary" specialization. The study pinpointed the fact that there were statistically significant differences in Fluid Intelligence according to gender variable in favor of males and according to specialization variable in favor of scientific specialization.

Partial regression coefficients also indicated that liquid intelligence had a negative relative contribution in the prediction of Psychosis and Neuroticism among secondary students, whereas it had a positive relative contribution to the prediction of Extraversion.