Personal conceptions of Intelligence: Definition, Differentiation and Emergence as na organizer and integrative model of other motivational constructs

Abstract

This article, developing the subject of Personal Conceptions of Intelligence, will be approached from the perspective of four main topics: definition and characterization; development and differentiation; emergence and foundation of personal conceptions of intelligence as an organizer and integrative model of other motivational constructs; and future developments: intercultural studies. Thus, we will present the reflections and the results of a group of studies, several of them cross-sectional and one longitudinal-sequential, conducted in the Portuguese educational context during the last 18 years, which aimed not only to present, define and delimitate the model of personal conceptions of intelligence, but also to apply, develop and transform it, both through the construction of adequate evaluation measures, by studying the particularities of the Portuguese cultural context with regard to the manifestation of differences, and also through the application of these results to other cultural contexts in the scope of intercultural studies. 

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.17575/rpsicol.v20i2.387