The Relationship between Cognitive Abilities with Big Five Personality Factors

Abstract

Cognitive abilities and personality (Big 5 factor) are supposed to be core norms of the scientific community. An increasing number of studies have investigated relations between dimensions of personality and level of cognitive functioning. However, relatively little is known about whether the cognitive - personality relations vary among adults. The main aim of this study is to investigated whether there is any relationship between cognitive abilities (problem solving, reasoning) and personality (big 5 factors, OCEAN). The current study examined these issues by using survey research design and simple random sampling, 150 students were selected from lovely professional university. Appropriate statistical techniques were used for analysis of the collected data. The result revealed that there was positive correlation of one dimension of cognitive ability with the three dimensions of personality (openness in males and females, conscientiousness, extraversion in females only) and there was no relationship of reasoning the other dimension of cognitive ability under study with the personality dimensions (traits). And there was no difference in males and females in the dimensions of the personality, but there was significant difference in cognitive abilities among gender, males were high in both the dimensions of the cognitive abilities.