Autor según el artículo: Buades-Sitjar F; Boada R; Guasch M; Ferré P; Hinojosa JA; Duñabeitia JA

Departamento: Psicologia

Autor/es de la URV: Boada Navarro, Roger / Guasch Moix, Marc

Palabras clave: Trivia quiz Sociodemographic data Intelligence General knowledge Cultural knowledge

Resumen: Studies on sociodemographic data and crystallized intelligence have often struggled to recruit enough participants to achieve sufficient validity. However, the advent of the internet now allows this problem to be solved through the creation of megastudies. Yet, this methodology so far has only been used in studies on vocabulary size, while general knowledge, another key component of crystallized intelligence, remains unexamined. In the present study, regression models were used to examine the impact of sociodemographic variables—gender, age, years of study and socioeconomic status—on general knowledge scores. The sample comprised 48,234 participants, each of whom answered 60 general knowledge questions, their data being fully available online. Men were found to score higher than women in general knowledge. Years of study and socioeconomic status acted as strong and weak positive predictors, respectively. Age acted as a strong positive predictor until the age of 50, where it became progressively detrimental. These results are discussed relative to other studies on crystallized intelligence, highlighting the need to study each of its components individually.

Áreas temáticas: Psychology, mathematical Psychology, experimental Psychology (miscellaneous) Psychology (all) Psychology Psicología Medicina ii General psychology Experimental and cognitive psychology Enfermagem Educação física Developmental and educational psychology Ciencias sociales Ciencias humanas Ciências biológicas ii Arts and humanities (miscellaneous)

Acceso a la licencia de uso: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/es/

Direcció de correo del autor: marc.guasch@urv.cat roger.boada@estudiants.urv.cat

Identificador del autor: 0000-0002-6898-120X

Fecha de alta del registro: 2023-06-12

Versión del articulo depositado: info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion

Enlace a la fuente original: https://link.springer.com/article/10.3758/s13428-021-01669-4

URL Documento de licencia: http://repositori.urv.cat/ca/proteccio-de-dades/

Referencia al articulo segun fuente origial: Behavior Research Methods. 54 (2): 898-909

Referencia de l'ítem segons les normes APA: Buades-Sitjar F; Boada R; Guasch M; Ferré P; Hinojosa JA; Duñabeitia JA (2022). The predictors of general knowledge: Data from a Spanish megastudy. Behavior Research Methods, 54(2), 898-909. DOI: 10.3758/s13428-021-01669-4

DOI del artículo: 10.3758/s13428-021-01669-4

Entidad: Universitat Rovira i Virgili

Año de publicación de la revista: 2022

Tipo de publicación: Journal Publications