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Unkept promises of cognitive styles: A new look at old measurements
Cognitive style is thought to be a stable marker of one’s way to approach mental operations. While of wide interest over the last decades, its operationalization remains a challenge. The literature indicates that cognitive styles assessed via i) questionnaires are predicted by personality and ii) pe...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6112650/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30153302 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0203115 |
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author | Cuneo, Félix Antonietti, Jean-Philippe Mohr, Christine |
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description | Cognitive style is thought to be a stable marker of one’s way to approach mental operations. While of wide interest over the last decades, its operationalization remains a challenge. The literature indicates that cognitive styles assessed via i) questionnaires are predicted by personality and ii) performance tests (e.g., Group Embedded Figures Test; GEFT) are related to general intelligence. In the first study, we tested the psychometric relationship between the Cognitive Style Index questionnaire (CSI) and personality inventories (NEO Five Factor Inventory; NEO-FFI, HEXACO Personality Inventory Revised; HEXACO-PI-R). In the second study, we assessed the CSI, NEO-FFI, GEFT and a general intelligence test (Raven’s Standard Progressive Matrices Test; RSMT). We found that CSI scores were largely predicted by personality and that CSI was uncorrelated with GEFT performance. Instead, better performance on the GEFT was associated with better performance on the RSMT. We conclude that i) cognitive style questionnaires overlap with personality inventories, ii) cognitive style performance tests do not measure cognitive styles and should not be used as such and iii) the cognitive style concept needs to be assessed with alternative measurement types. We discuss possible future directions. |
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spelling | pubmed-61126502018-09-17 Unkept promises of cognitive styles: A new look at old measurements Cuneo, Félix Antonietti, Jean-Philippe Mohr, Christine PLoS One Research Article Cognitive style is thought to be a stable marker of one’s way to approach mental operations. While of wide interest over the last decades, its operationalization remains a challenge. The literature indicates that cognitive styles assessed via i) questionnaires are predicted by personality and ii) performance tests (e.g., Group Embedded Figures Test; GEFT) are related to general intelligence. In the first study, we tested the psychometric relationship between the Cognitive Style Index questionnaire (CSI) and personality inventories (NEO Five Factor Inventory; NEO-FFI, HEXACO Personality Inventory Revised; HEXACO-PI-R). In the second study, we assessed the CSI, NEO-FFI, GEFT and a general intelligence test (Raven’s Standard Progressive Matrices Test; RSMT). We found that CSI scores were largely predicted by personality and that CSI was uncorrelated with GEFT performance. Instead, better performance on the GEFT was associated with better performance on the RSMT. We conclude that i) cognitive style questionnaires overlap with personality inventories, ii) cognitive style performance tests do not measure cognitive styles and should not be used as such and iii) the cognitive style concept needs to be assessed with alternative measurement types. We discuss possible future directions. Public Library of Science 2018-08-28 /pmc/articles/PMC6112650/ /pubmed/30153302 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0203115 Text en © 2018 Cuneo et al http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Cuneo, Félix Antonietti, Jean-Philippe Mohr, Christine Unkept promises of cognitive styles: A new look at old measurements |
title | Unkept promises of cognitive styles: A new look at old measurements |
title_full | Unkept promises of cognitive styles: A new look at old measurements |
title_fullStr | Unkept promises of cognitive styles: A new look at old measurements |
title_full_unstemmed | Unkept promises of cognitive styles: A new look at old measurements |
title_short | Unkept promises of cognitive styles: A new look at old measurements |
title_sort | unkept promises of cognitive styles: a new look at old measurements |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6112650/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30153302 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0203115 |
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