Thinking Styles and the Big Five Personality Traits

By Li‐fang Zhang. 2002

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The purpose of the present study was to investigate the relationship between thinking styles and the big five personality traits. One-hundred-and-fifty-four (mean age 20 years) second-year university students from Hong Kong participated in the study. Participants responded to the Thinking Styles Inventory based on Sternberg's theory of mental self-government and to the NEO Five-Factor Inventory (NEO-FFI, Costa & McCare, 1992). Although significant relationships were identified between particular thinking styles and certain personality traits, it was concluded that it is premature to claim that a personality measure, such as the NEO-FFI can be used to measure thinking styles.

Subfields: Developmental and Educational Psychology, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Social Psychology

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In Developmental and Educational Psychology

1. Tariq Iqbal Khan
2. Maria Kozhevnikov
3. Ying Zhang
4. Paul L. Nesbit

In Experimental and Cognitive Psychology

1. Tariq Iqbal Khan
2. Maria Kozhevnikov
3. Ying Zhang
4. Paul L. Nesbit

In Social Psychology

1. Ying Zhang
2. Tariq Iqbal Khan
3. Maria Kozhevnikov
4. Paul L. Nesbit
5. Farooq Ahmed Jam

Citations in the corpus

• Expatriate Development for Cross-Cultural Adjustment (2012, background): “…model has received criticism (Block, 1995), in the search for cross-cultural HRD literatures, considerable research has focused on the role of the Big Five personality variables, and it has been the most popular measurement among the HRD scholars in this regard (Nesbit, 2012; Zhang, 2006).”
• A Time-Lagged Study of the Relationship Between Big Five Personality and Ethical Ideology (2016, background): “They like to live and work with others (Zhang, 2002).”
• The Role of Self-Reflection, Emotional Management of Feedback, and Self-Regulation Processes in Self-Directed Leadership Development (2012, background): “Considerable research has also focused on the role of the Big Five personality variables and different thinking styles (Zhang, 2006), and it is possible that the nature of reflective processing may vary between leaders in systematic ways.”
• Cognitive styles in the context of modern psychology: toward an integrated framework of cognitive style. (2007, background): “…1999; Honey & Mumford, 1982) and to investigate the relation between Sternberg’s thinking styles (Sternberg, 1988, 1997; Sternberg & Grigorenko, 1997) and the Big Five personality traits (i.e., Neuroticism, Agreeableness, Conscientiousness, Extraversion, and Openness; e.g., Zhang, 2000, 2002).”