Is ignorance bliss? En uppsats om huruvida högintelligenta människor är mer benägna att uppleva ångest.
(2024) PSYK11 20232Department of Psychology
- Abstract
- In this following essay, anxiety and different ways of thinking were examined through a questionnaire in an attempt to find a connection between different cognitive styles and anxiety. This resulted in an attempt to find connections between objective, spatial and verbal cognitive styles, and self-perceived anxiety in a population which consisted of highly intelligent people and a control group. This was examined through a control group based on a snowball selection, and a test group based on volunteers from MENSA Sweden. The choice to investigate volunteers from MENSA was based on their proof that they are in the top 2% regarding intelligence in Sweden, and was therefore considered qualified to represent the highly intelligent part of the... (More)
- In this following essay, anxiety and different ways of thinking were examined through a questionnaire in an attempt to find a connection between different cognitive styles and anxiety. This resulted in an attempt to find connections between objective, spatial and verbal cognitive styles, and self-perceived anxiety in a population which consisted of highly intelligent people and a control group. This was examined through a control group based on a snowball selection, and a test group based on volunteers from MENSA Sweden. The choice to investigate volunteers from MENSA was based on their proof that they are in the top 2% regarding intelligence in Sweden, and was therefore considered qualified to represent the highly intelligent part of the study. The results showed that the test group and control group had no statistically significant difference in self-perceived anxiety levels, but it did however show that the spatial and verbal cognitive style did affect the participants' self-perceived anxiety, no matter the intelligence. The conclusion was therefore that this essay did not prove the previously proven statistically significant correlation between intelligence and anxiety, but did find out that different ways of thinking was a contributing factor to anxiety, which was an interesting find that hopefully will contribute to more elaborate research within this topic. (Less)
- Popular Abstract (Swedish)
- I följande uppsats undersöktes ångest och olika sätt att tänka genom en enkät i ett försök att hitta en koppling mellan olika kognitiva stilar och ångest. Detta resulterade i ett försök att hitta samband mellan objektiva, spatiala och verbala kognitiva stilar samt självupplevd ångest i en population bestående av högintelligenta personer och en kontrollgrupp. Detta undersöktes med hjälp av en kontrollgrupp baserad på ett snöbollsurval och en testgrupp baserad på medlemmar i MENSA Sverige. Valet att undersöka individer från MENSA baserades på deras bevis för att de är bland de 2% mest intelligenta i Sverige och ansågs därför kunna representera den högintelligenta delen av studien. Resultaten visade att testgruppen och kontrollgruppen inte... (More)
- I följande uppsats undersöktes ångest och olika sätt att tänka genom en enkät i ett försök att hitta en koppling mellan olika kognitiva stilar och ångest. Detta resulterade i ett försök att hitta samband mellan objektiva, spatiala och verbala kognitiva stilar samt självupplevd ångest i en population bestående av högintelligenta personer och en kontrollgrupp. Detta undersöktes med hjälp av en kontrollgrupp baserad på ett snöbollsurval och en testgrupp baserad på medlemmar i MENSA Sverige. Valet att undersöka individer från MENSA baserades på deras bevis för att de är bland de 2% mest intelligenta i Sverige och ansågs därför kunna representera den högintelligenta delen av studien. Resultaten visade att testgruppen och kontrollgruppen inte hade någon statistiskt signifikant skillnad i självupplevda ångestnivåer, men det visade dock att spatiala och verbala kognitiva stilar påverkade deltagarnas självupplevda ångest, oavsett intelligens. Slutsatsen var därmed att denna uppsats inte bevisade den tidigare påvisade statistiskt signifikanta korrelationen mellan intelligens och ångest, men den visade att olika kognitiva tänkesätt var en bidragande faktor till ångest, vilket var en intressant upptäckt som förhoppningsvis kommer att bidra till mer omfattande forskning inom detta ämne. (Less)
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- author
- Nordenson, Ruth LU and Pedersen, Anton LU
- supervisor
- organization
- course
- PSYK11 20232
- year
- 2024
- type
- M2 - Bachelor Degree
- subject
- keywords
- anxiety, intelligence, MENSA, OSIVQ, STAI, Intelligens, ångest
- language
- Swedish
- id
- 9149611
- date added to LUP
- 2024-06-19 15:08:40
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abstract = {{In this following essay, anxiety and different ways of thinking were examined through a questionnaire in an attempt to find a connection between different cognitive styles and anxiety. This resulted in an attempt to find connections between objective, spatial and verbal cognitive styles, and self-perceived anxiety in a population which consisted of highly intelligent people and a control group. This was examined through a control group based on a snowball selection, and a test group based on volunteers from MENSA Sweden. The choice to investigate volunteers from MENSA was based on their proof that they are in the top 2% regarding intelligence in Sweden, and was therefore considered qualified to represent the highly intelligent part of the study. The results showed that the test group and control group had no statistically significant difference in self-perceived anxiety levels, but it did however show that the spatial and verbal cognitive style did affect the participants' self-perceived anxiety, no matter the intelligence. The conclusion was therefore that this essay did not prove the previously proven statistically significant correlation between intelligence and anxiety, but did find out that different ways of thinking was a contributing factor to anxiety, which was an interesting find that hopefully will contribute to more elaborate research within this topic.}},
author = {{Nordenson, Ruth and Pedersen, Anton}},
language = {{swe}},
note = {{Student Paper}},
title = {{Is ignorance bliss? En uppsats om huruvida högintelligenta människor är mer benägna att uppleva ångest.}},
year = {{2024}},
}