Intelligence, Personality and Tolerance of Ambiguity

Abstract

In this study, 3836 adults completed a personality test (the HPTI) and a multidimensional intelligence test (GIA). Two prominent theories that link personality traits to intelligence (compensation and investment) were tested. There were more sex differences in the personality traits than in the IQ scores. Correlational and regression analyses results provided little evidence for either theory but pointed to the role of tolerance of ambiguity as a consistently significant, positive correlate of IQ at both the facet and domain levels. The role of this neglected trait is discussed. Limitations of various aspects of this study and its implications are considered.

Correlates of stock market investment.

“…The binary logistic regression results suggested that only two traits were important. The first was Ambiguity Acceptance which has been shown to be related to a wide number of positive work-related behaviors (Cuppello et al, 2023a(Cuppello et al, , 2023bFurnham & Impellizzeri, 2021;Teodorescu et al, 2017).…”

“…The inventory is 78 items in length. It has been used in a number of studies (Cuppello et al, 2023a(Cuppello et al, , 2023bFurnham & Treglown, 2018;Teodorescu et al, 2017).…”

“…The HPTI was developed to measure personality at work and has some overlap with the Big Five (five factor model) on three traits (Cuppello et al, 2023a(Cuppello et al, , 2023b and includes three additional traits, shown to be related to success in a variety of jobs (Teodorescu et al, 2017). The first is Conscientiousness characterized by self-discipline, organization, educational and business success, and ability to moderate one's own impulses (Barrick et al, 2001).…”

“…A number of articles have used the HPTI (Cuppello et al, 2023a(Cuppello et al, , 2023bFurnham & Treglown, 2018;Furnham & Impellizzeri, 2021;Treglown, Cuppello, et al, 2020;. The psychometric properties of the measure have been reported (MacRae & Furnham, 2020) of which the most relevant is the study by Teodorescu et al (2017).…”

Intelligence, personality, and management level.

“…Hypothesis 6: Ambiguity tolerance would be related to ML because of the studies that show it to be related to intelligence and also executive decision making (Cuppello et al, 2023;Furnham & Marks, 2013) Hypothesis 7: Risk approach (also labeled courage) would be related to ML because at the heart of successful leadership is the ability to evaluate and take well-calculated risks (Pendleton et al, 2021).…”