CASE STUDY PERFORMANCE, INTELLIGENCE AND PERSONALITY

The authors tested intelligence and personality traits as the predictors of performance on a case study and found that openness to experience was significantly positively correlated with an individual’s score on problem identification and that intelligence was significantly positively correlated with an individual’s score on analysis. Additionally, there was a positive relationship between extraversion and agreeableness and an individual’s analysis score and a significant negative relationship between conscientiousness and an individual’s score on problem identification. Moreover, intelligence and conscientiousness interacted to predict an individual’s analysis score with high conscientiousness partially compensating for an individual’s relatively low intelligence.