Personality and Intelligence: Do They Affect the Interpersonal Self-Efficiency?

This study analyses temperament, intelligence, and personality disorders shown by 320 women and 114 men undergraduates depending on interpersonal self-efficacy as high or low. All of them fulfilled the Personality Inventory NEO-PI-R, the Questionnaire of Personality Disorders IPDE,the Questionnaire of Self-Assessment of Multiple Intelligences CAIM, g-factor Test, and the Primary Mental Abilities Test. Women who assessed their interpersonal intelligence as high, scored higher in spatial ability, extraversion, openness, and conscientiousness, and lower in neuroticism and personality disorders against those women who assessed their interpersonal intelligence as low. However, those men with high interpersonal self-efficacy showed higher scores on temperament and lower scores in paranoid and dependent disorders than men with low self-efficacy. There were gender differences in intelligence for the higher group in interpersonal intelligence, and in temperament for the lower group. Considering gender and personality factors in assessment and promotion of interpersonal intelligence is suggested.