Intelligence in Relation to Jung's Personality Types

Abstract

The present study investigated the relationship between Jung's personality types and psychometric intelligence. A total of 4758 participants completed the Critical Reasoning Test Battery 2 and the Jung Type Indicator (JTI). General intelligence was significantly correlated with Extra version-Intro version (El), Sensing-Intuition (SN), Thinking-Feeling (TF) and Judging-Perception (JP), indicating an advantage for Introversion, Intuition, Thinking and Perceiving. Regressing personality and demographic factors on general intelligence indicated that they account for 14% of its variance. The investigation of personality and demographic predictors of specific mental abilities (numerical, verbal and reasoning) revealed that El, TF and JP can be used to predict scores on all three mental abilities, whereas SN can be used to predict verbal reasoning only.