title: Does personal intelligence exist? Evidence from a new ability-based measure.
abstract: Personal intelligence has been defined as the ability to reason about personality and personality-relevant information and to use that information to guide one's actions and more generally, one's life. We constructed an initial version of an ability-based measure to test whether personal intelligence can be measured and whether it exists as a unitary intelligence. In 3 studies (N = 241, 308, and 385), we administered this Test of Personal Intelligence (TOPI), composed of 4 sections, to undergraduates along with criterion measures. Results suggested that a personal intelligence can be measured, that it might exist as a unified area of mental abilities, and that it represents psychological qualities that have intriguing predictive aspects.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology , University of New Hampshire at Durham, Durham, NH 03824, USA.
authors.forename: John D
authors.initials: JD
authors.lastname: Mayer
authors.forename: A T
authors.initials: AT
authors.lastname: Panter
authors.forename: David R
authors.initials: DR
authors.lastname: Caruso
mesh_terms: D004644:Emotions; D006801:Humans; D007360:Intelligence; D010551:Personality; D010556:Personality Tests