Evidence concerning the construct validity of conceptual level as a personality variable.

Abstract
Female adolescents (100, 12th grade) from Southern Ontario, Canada, classified as either high, moderate or low conceptual level (CL), were examined for differences in integrative complexity and movement towards interpersonal maturity. After controlling for the effects of intelligence, but higher CL group exhibited significantly superior performance on the more complex aspects of an impression formation task, and higher ego identity and lower anxiety scores. Correlational analysis revealed that CL tended to be related to higher level task measures and to ego identity and anxiety, while intelligence tended to be related to less complex aspects of the impression task. Intelligence itself was unrelated to ego identity and anxiety. Findings supported the construct validity of CL as outlined by David Hunt.

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