Table 3.
Fluid ability, personality, and emotional abilities: descriptive statistics, internal consistencies, and correlations.
| Measure | M (SD) | Reliability1 | Correlations | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | 2. | 3. | 4. | 5. | 6. | 7. | 8. | 9. | |||
| 1. Fluid abilities | 35.45 (8.03) | 0.847 | |||||||||
| 2. Extraversion | 4.49 (1.30) | 0.640 | 0.077 | ||||||||
| 3. Agreeableness | 4.58 (1.23) | 0.224 | −0.030 | 0.251*** | |||||||
| 4. Conscientiousness | 5.05 (1.57) | 0.727 | −0.048 | 0.317*** | 0.485*** | ||||||
| 5. Emotional Stability | 3.96 (1.39) | 0.501 | −0.011 | 0.106 | 0.075 | 0.090 | |||||
| 6. Openness | 5.17 (1.42) | 0.690 | −0.066 | 0.327*** | 0.510*** | 0.596*** | 0.089 | ||||
| 7. Emotion recognition | 0.582 (0.152) | 0.740 | 0.214*** | 0.067 | 0.089 | 0.091 | −0.001 | 0.125* | |||
| 8. Emotion understanding | 0.658 (0.173) | 0.721 | 0.310*** | 0.025 | 0.060 | 0.057 | −0.108 | 0.001 | 0.387*** | ||
| 9. Emotion regulation | 0.587 (0.097) | 0.485 | 0.073 | 0.126* | 0.006 | 0.055 | −0.008 | 0.015 | 0.046 | 0.102 | |
| 10. Emotion management | 0.447 (0.163) | 0.607 | 0.379*** | 0.032 | 0.149** | 0.077 | −0.026 | 0.062 | 0.191*** | 0.339*** | 0.236*** |
N = 330.
Reliability measures: CFT (fluid ability) and GECo (emotional abilities): McDonald’s ω; TIPI (personality): Spearman-Brown Coefficient.
1: CFT sum score ranges from 0 to 56; 2–6: TIPI mean scores range from 1 to 7; 7– 10: GECo mean scores range from 0 to 1.
*p < 0.05, **p < 0.01, ***p < 0.001.