PMID- 36412773
OWN - NLM
STAT- PubMed-not-MEDLINE
LR  - 20221213
IS  - 2079-3200 (Electronic)
IS  - 2079-3200 (Linking)
VI  - 10
IP  - 4
DP  - 2022 Oct 26
TI  - Is There a "Gifted Personality"? Initial Evidence for Differences between MENSA 
      and General Population Members in the HEXACO Personality Inventory.
LID - 10.3390/jintelligence10040092 [doi]
LID - 92
AB  - Contrary to the common notion that personality and intelligence are unrelated 
      constructs, numerous correlational studies have demonstrated substantial 
      associations between the two domains. Moreover, samples of intellectually gifted 
      individuals have been found to differ from the general population in specific 
      aspects of their personalities. However, most studies so far have relied on the 
      Five-Factor Model of Personality (FFM), while none have investigated this 
      phenomenon using the HEXACO personality framework. We recruited 617 adult members 
      of the international high-IQ society MENSA and compared them to 3 reference 
      samples (combined N = 112,637) regarding their personalities as measured by the 
      HEXACO-60 personality inventory. We found that gifted persons scored higher in 
      Honesty-Humility and Conscientiousness but lower in Emotionality compared to 
      reference samples. Interestingly, gifted individuals scored only slightly higher 
      in Openness to Experience, and no consistent differences emerged for 
      Agreeableness. We demonstrate that some known personality differences between 
      gifted and non-gifted persons translate from the FFM to the HEXACO model, while 
      others do not. Our results indicate that within the HEXACO factor structure 
      differences in sociability are more pronounced, while intellect-related 
      differences are comparatively weak.
FAU - Fries, Jonathan
AU  - Fries J
AUID- ORCID: 0000-0003-3253-5109
AD  - Department of Developmental and Educational Psychology, Faculty of Psychology, 
      University of Vienna, 1010 Vienna, Austria.
FAU - Kovacs, Kristof
AU  - Kovacs K
AUID- ORCID: 0000-0002-7452-067X
AD  - Institute of Psychology, ELTE Eotvos Lorand University Budapest, 1053 Budapest, 
      Hungary.
FAU - Zeilinger, Elisabeth L
AU  - Zeilinger EL
AUID- ORCID: 0000-0002-0625-500X
AD  - Clinical Division of Palliative Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine I, 
      Medical University of Vienna, 1090 Vienna, Austria.
FAU - Pietschnig, Jakob
AU  - Pietschnig J
AUID- ORCID: 0000-0003-0222-9557
AD  - Department of Developmental and Educational Psychology, Faculty of Psychology, 
      University of Vienna, 1010 Vienna, Austria.
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
DEP - 20221026
PL  - Switzerland
TA  - J Intell
JT  - Journal of Intelligence
JID - 101635592
PMC - PMC9680308
OTO - NOTNLM
OT  - HEXACO
OT  - cognitive ability
OT  - giftedness
OT  - group differences
OT  - personality
COIS- The authors declare no conflict of interest.
EDAT- 2022/11/23 06:00
MHDA- 2022/11/23 06:01
PMCR- 2022/10/26
CRDT- 2022/11/22 07:57
PHST- 2022/09/20 00:00 [received]
PHST- 2022/10/20 00:00 [revised]
PHST- 2022/10/21 00:00 [accepted]
PHST- 2022/11/22 07:57 [entrez]
PHST- 2022/11/23 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2022/11/23 06:01 [medline]
PHST- 2022/10/26 00:00 [pmc-release]
AID - jintelligence10040092 [pii]
AID - jintelligence-10-00092 [pii]
AID - 10.3390/jintelligence10040092 [doi]
PST - epublish
SO  - J Intell. 2022 Oct 26;10(4):92. doi: 10.3390/jintelligence10040092.