PERSONALITY AND LEARNING STYLE - A STUDY OF 3 INSTRUMENTS

This paper reports on three studies all concerned with personality correlates of learning styles. The Eysenckian dimensions of Extraversion, Neuroticism, Psychoticism and Lie (Dissimulation) were correlated with three different measures of learning style: the Honey and Mumford (1982) Learning Style Questionnaire (LSQ); the Whetten and Cameron (1984) Cognitive Style Instrument (CST); and the Kolb (1976) Learning Style Inventory (LSI). In each case personality measures, particularly extraversion and psychoticism, were relatively strongly correlated with learning/cognitive styles. The implication of this finding for assessing learning and cognitive styles is discussed in terms of the incremental validity of using learning style instruments.