ABSTRACT
This chapter examines concurrent associations of g and Fs with four personological constructs, including children’s self-perception of their own cognitive competence, creativity, musical ability, and behavioral adjustment, and one experiential construct, children’s breath of experience. Zero-order correlations were computed between the child characteristics or experiences and the general and faculty factor scores and their indicators. If a significant relation between a child characteristic and a factor score emerged, the relation was examined in a regression analysis, controlling for statistically significant covariates. The chapter suggests that relations with cognitive competence were stronger for the more academic and social domains than motor skills, suggesting that preschool children may be able to differentiate their cognitive from their motor performance. It provides different kinds of experiences related to different faculties of intelligence. Psychometric substantiation of relations between intelligence and creativity has been controversial as well.
