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ALMamari K, Traynor A. The Role of General and Specific Cognitive Abilities in Predicting Performance of Three Occupations: Evidence from Bifactor Models. J Intell. 2021;9(3)doi: 10.3390/jintelligence9030040.
ALMamari, K., & Traynor, A. (2021). The Role of General and Specific Cognitive Abilities in Predicting Performance of Three Occupations: Evidence from Bifactor Models. Journal of Intelligence, 9(3), . https://doi.org/10.3390/jintelligence9030040
ALMamari, Khalid, and Traynor, Anne. "The Role of General and Specific Cognitive Abilities in Predicting Performance of Three Occupations: Evidence from Bifactor Models." Journal of Intelligence vol. 9,3 (2021). doi: https://doi.org/10.3390/jintelligence9030040
ALMamari K, Traynor A. The Role of General and Specific Cognitive Abilities in Predicting Performance of Three Occupations: Evidence from Bifactor Models. J Intell. 2021 Aug 17;9(3). doi: 10.3390/jintelligence9030040. PMID: 34449667; PMCID: PMC8395885.
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J Intell. 2021 Aug 17;9(3). doi: 10.3390/jintelligence9030040.

The Role of General and Specific Cognitive Abilities in Predicting Performance of Three Occupations: Evidence from Bifactor Models.

Journal of Intelligence

Khalid ALMamari, Anne Traynor

Affiliations

  1. Department of Educational Studies, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN 47907, USA.

PMID: 34449667 PMCID: PMC8395885 DOI: 10.3390/jintelligence9030040

Abstract

Cognitive abilities are related to job performance. However, there is less agreement about the relative contribution of general versus specific cognitive abilities to job performance. Similarly, it is not clear how cognitive abilities operate in the context of complex occupations. This study assessed the role of cognitive abilities on the performance of three aviation-related jobs: flying, navigation, and air battle management (ABM). Correlated-factor and bifactor models were used to draw a conclusion about the predictive relations between cognitive abilities and job performance. Overall, the importance of particular cognitive abilities tends to vary across the three occupations, and each occupation has different sets of essential abilities. Importantly, the interplay of general versus specific abilities is different across occupations, and some specific abilities also show substantial predictive power.

Keywords: aviation; bifactor model; cognitive abilities; general ability; job performance; predictive validity

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