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Cognitive versus Non‐Cognitive Individual Differences and the Dynamics of Career Success
Author(s) -
Ganzach Yoav,
Pazy Asya
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
applied psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.497
H-Index - 88
eISSN - 1464-0597
pISSN - 0269-994X
DOI - 10.1111/apps.12038
Subject(s) - psychology , personality , cognition , big five personality traits , incremental validity , dynamics (music) , cognitive psychology , social psychology , developmental psychology , test validity , psychometrics , pedagogy , neuroscience
We examine the effects of cognitive and non‐cognitive individual differences on the dynamics of career success (i.e. pay, occupational status) by comparing temporal changes in the validities of two measures of personality—Core Self Evaluations and the Big Five personality dimensions—to temporal changes in the validities of two standard intelligence tests. The main finding of two studies based on large representative samples is that the validity of intelligence clearly increases over time, whereas the validity of personality tends to be stable, indicating that intelligence, but not personality, drives career success.