The big five factors of personality and the need for cognition

Subject Areas : روان درمانگری

FaridehSadat Hosseini ¹ ( PhD Candidate Shiraz University )
Morteza Latifian ² ( PhD Shiraz University )

Received: 2015-06-05 Accepted : 2015-06-05 Published : 2009-09-23

Keywords: Students, big five factors of personality model, need for cognition,

Abstract :

the goal of the present study was to examine the relationship between personality characteristics and a need for cognition. A sample of 109 female and 82 male studensts from various universities in Shiraz completed the Big Five Personality Factors Questionnaire (Goldberg, 1999) and the Need for Cognition Scale (Cacioppo, Petty, Kao, 1984). Finding demonstrated that the need for cognition is correlated positively with openness to experience, conscientiousness and extraversion and negatively with neuroticism and no correlation with agreeableness. But just the openness to experience could predict the need for cognition (r2 =0.18). The implications of the research about the need for cognition are discussed.