Abstract
This study examined the relation of fluid and crystallized intelligence with extrinsic (occupational skill level, income) and intrinsic (job satisfaction) career success as well as the incremental predictive validity of conscientiousness and its facets. Participants (N = 121) completed the Reynolds Intellectual Assessment Scales (RIAS), the Revised NEO Personality Inventory (NEO-PI-R), and reported their occupational skill level, income, and job satisfaction. Results revealed that crystallized intelligence was positively related to occupational skill level, but not to income. The association of crystallized intelligence and job satisfaction was negative and stronger for the lowest occupational skill level, whereas it was non-significant for higher levels. Fluid intelligence showed no association with career success. Beyond intelligence, conscientiousness and its facet self-discipline were associated with income, whereas conscientiousness and its facets competence and achievement striving were associated with job satisfaction. The results are discussed in terms of their implications for the assessment process as well as for future research to adequately predict career success.
Highlights
Career success is of importance to individuals as well as to organizations, because it has the capacity to contribute to organizational success (Judge et al, 1999)
In model 1 crystallized intelligence was significantly related to occupational skill level (Estimate = 0.306, SE = 0.112, BC 95%-CI = [0.082, 0.514]), whereas fluid intelligence showed no significant association with occupational skill level (Estimate = 0.015, SE = 0.097, BC 95%-CI = [−0.170, 0.199])
The current study analyzed the association of intelligence with extrinsic and intrinsic career success
Summary
Career success is of importance to individuals as well as to organizations, because it has the capacity to contribute to organizational success (Judge et al, 1999). 37) of an individual, has Validity of Conscientiousness for Career Success been established as an important trait for career success (Hurtz and Donovan, 2000; Sackett and Walmsley, 2014) Both predictors are embedded in a recent integrative theoretical model proposed by Schmidt (2014), suggesting that intelligence, foremost crystallized intelligence (that originally required fluid intelligence for its development), as well as conscientiousness exert direct influence on an adult’s occupational achievement. Studies have shown that conscientiousness demonstrates incremental validity for determining career success and job performance above and beyond intelligence (Schmidt and Hunter, 1998; Judge et al, 1999; Avis et al, 2002). This study extends current research in examining the incremental validity of conscientiousness in the prediction of career success beyond fluid and crystallized intelligence and by analyzing the trait conscientiousness as a whole as well as in its separate narrow facets
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