Are individual differences in numeracy unique from general mental ability? A closer look at a common measure of numeracy

Individual Differences Research

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 257-265

  Brooks, Margaret E ^a   Pui, Shuang Yueh ^a  

^a BOWLING GREEN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EID: 78751555097     PISSN: 1541745X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

References (22)

1. rd ed.). London: MacMillan.
2. Barrick, M. R., & Mount, M. K. (1991). The Big Five personality dimensions and job performance: A meta-analysis. Personnel Psychology, 44(1), 1-26.
3. Black, W. C., Nease, Jr., Tostesen, A. N. (1995). Perceptions of breast cancer risk and screening effectiveness in women younger than 50 years of age. Journal of National Cancer Institute, 87, 720-731.
4. Davids, S. L., Schapira, M. M., McAuliffe, T. L., & Nattinger, A. B. (2004). Predictors of pessimistic breast cancer risk perceptions in a primary care population. Journal of General Internal Medicine, 19(4), 310-315.
5. Donnellan, M. B., Oswald, F. L., Baird, B. M., & Lucas, R. E. (2006). The mini-IPIP scales: Tiny-yet-effective measures of the Big Five factors of personality. Psychological Assessment, 18(2), 192-203.
6. Epstein, S. (1994). An integration of the cognitive and psychodynamic unconscious. American Psychologist, 49, 709-724.
7. Fagerlin, A., Zikmund-Fisher, B. J., Ubel, P. A., Jankovic, A., Derry, H. A., & Smith, D. M. (2007). Measuring numeracy without a math test: Development of the Subjective Numeracy Scale. Medical Decision Making, 27(5), 672-680.
8. Golbeck, A. L., Ahlers-Schmidt, C. R., Paschal, A. M., & Dismuke, S. E. (2005). A definition and operational framework for health numeracy. American Journal of Preventive Medicine, 29(4), 375-376.
9. Goldberg, L. R. (1999). A broad-bandwidth, public-domain, personality inventory measuring the lower-level facets of several five-factor models. In I. Mervielde, I. Deary, F. D. Fruyt, & F. Ostendorf (Eds.), Personality Psychology in Europe (Vol. 7, pp. 7-28). Tilburg, the Netherlands: Tilburg University Press.
10. Gurmankin, A. D., Baron, J., & Armstrong, K. (2004). The effect of numerical statements of risk on trust and comfort with hypothetical physician risk communication. Medical Decision Making, 24, 265-271.
11. Hertwig, R., Zangerl, M. A., Biedert, E., & Margraf, J. (2008). The public's probabilistic numeracy: How tasks, education and exposure to games of chance shape it. Journal of Behavioral Decision Making, 21(4), 457-470.
12. Hitch, G. J. (1978). The numerical abilities of industrial trainee apprentices. Journal of Occupational Psychology, 51(2), 163-176.
13. Lipkus, I. M., Samsa, G., & Rimer, B. K. (2001). General performance on a numeracy scale among highly educated samples. Medical Decision Making: An International Journal Of The Society For Medical Decision Making, 21(1), 37-44.
14. McCrae, R. R., & Costa, P. T. (1987). Validation of the five-factor model of personality across instruments and observers. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 52, 81-90.
15. Pacini, R., & Epstein, S. (1999). The relation of rational and experiential information processing styles to personality, basic beliefs, and the racio-bias phenomenon. Journal of Personality & Social Psychology, 76(6), 972-987.
16. Perloff, R., Sternberg, R.J., & Urbina, S. (1996). Intelligence: knowns and unknowns. American Psychologist, 51(2), 77.
17. Peters, E., Dieckmann, N., Dixon, A., Hibbard, J. H., & Mertz, C. K. (2007). Less is more in presenting quality information to consumers. Medical Care Research and Review: MCRR, 64(2), 169-190.
18. Peters, E., Vastfjall, D., Slovic, P., Mertz, C. K., Mazzocco, K., & Dickert, S. (2006). Numeracy and decision making. Psychological Science, 17(5), 407-413.
19. Schwartz, L. M., Woloshin, S., & Welch, H. G. (2005). Can patients interpret health information? An assessment of the medical data interpretation test. Medical Decision Making: An International Journal Of The Society For Medical Decision Making, 25(3), 290-300.
20. Schwartz, L. M., Woloshin, S., Black, & Welch, H. G. (1997). The role of numeracy in understanding the benefit of screening mammography. Annals of Internal Medicine, 127(11), 966-972.
21. Viswanathan, M. (1993). Measurement of individual differences in preference for numerical information. Journal of Applied Psychology, 78(5), 741.
22. Wonderlic (2002). Wonderlic personnel test and scholastic level exam, user's manual. Libertyville, IL: Wonderlic Inc.