Predicting interest in and attitudes toward science from personality and need for cognition

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• 作者：Gregory J. Feist ; ^{Greg.feist@sjsu.edu}
• 关键词：Personality ; Attitudes ; Psychology of science ; Need for cognition ; Scientific interest
• 刊名：Personality and Individual Differences
• 出版年：2012
• 期刊代码：64_01918869
• 类别：psy
• 出版时间：May, 2012
• 卷：52
• 期：7
• 页码：771-775
• 文件大小：183 K

摘要

One important task for psychologists of science is to examine the psychological factors (such as personality or cognition) that underlie who becomes interested in science and what kind of attitudes people develop toward science. Those were the primary questions addressed by the present study in a sample of 655 college undergraduates. We predicted that the personality dimensions of openness to experience, conscientiousness, and introversion as well as the cognitive style need for cognition would each predict level of interest in science. Results confirmed these predictions, although the effect sizes tended to be small. Further analyses revealed that need for cognition explained variance in interest in science over and above variance explained by personality.