Relation between typical intellectual engagement and openness: Comment on Goff and Ackerman (1992).

Abstract

M. Goff and P. L. Ackerman (1992) identified a personality trait that they called «typical intellectual engagement.» Typical intellectual engagement represents a departure from the common conceptualization of intelligence as maximal performance, and a measure of the construct correlates with measures of crystallized intelligence but not with a measure of fluid intelligence. In this article, the relation between Typical Intellectual Engagement and the personality trait of Openness is examined. In analyzing the relations between Typical Intellectual Engagement and variables in the ability, personality, and achievement domains, and between Openness and variables in the ability, personality and achievement domains, I find little support for a distinction between typical intellectual engagement and openness