Updating ability strongly predicts fluid intelligence, while shifting and inhibition do not significantly predict it.¶

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q3 i3 In a latent variable model, updating strongly predicted fluid intelligence (β = .53) but shifting and inhibition showed no significant relations with Gf. → Benedek Mathias 2014

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Benedek Mathias 2014¶

Benedek Mathias, Jauk Emanuel, Sommer Markus, Arendasy Martin, Neubauer Aljoscha C. (2014). Intelligence, creativity, and cognitive control: The common and differential involvement of executive functions in intelligence and creativity. Intelligence. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.intell.2014.05.007

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Latent variable regression in a 230-participant SEM study (fluid intelligence and creativity regressed on the latent updating, shifting and inhibition factors; the design is correlational, so the paths are predictive, not causal). The article reports the standardized path updating strongly predicts Gf (β = .53), with inhibition (β = .12, p = .30) and shifting non-significant.

"The model further revealed that updating strongly predicts Gf (β = .53, p < .001) and, to a lesser extent, also creativity (β = .29, p < .001). By contrast, inhibition predicted creativity (β = .20, p = .04) but not Gf (β = .12, p = .30)."

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