Author(s)

Wonjae Kang¹, Adrian Furnham^1,2

¹Research Department of Clinical, Educational and Health Psychology, University College London, London, UK.
²Norwegian Business School (BI), Olso, Norway.

This study set out to examine gender and personality effects on self-estimated multiple intelligence. In all, 124 Koreans made self-estimates of 24 different kinds of intelligence. They also completed a short personality test. Results showed that males gave higher estimates than females on many different types of intelligence. Openness to experience, agreeableness and neuroticism were found to correlate with self-estimated intelligence. Income and education were also correlated with various self-estimated intelligence measures, but not overall self-estimated intelligence. The different intelligences factored into interpretable dimensions. Results were similar to those from different countries. Implications and limitations of the findings are discussed.

Self-Estimated Intelligence, Gender, Personality, Social Class, Income

Kang, W. and Furnham, A. (2016) Gender and Personality Differences in the Self-Estimated Intelligence of Koreans. Psychology, 7, 1043-1052. doi: 10.4236/psych.2016.78105.