Middle school subjects of 13-21 years (from 4 nationalities) were used for studying the relationship between progressive cognition and personality characteristics by Raven's Standard Progressive Matrices and Eysenk's Personality Questionnaire. The results showed: (1) the correlation and stepwise regression were completely identical: P score was negatively related to progressive cognition; E score was positively related to progressive cognition. (2) With the personality characteristics and the personal variables as independent variables, the stepwise regression indicated: E score was the most predictors of progressive cognition, and then was nation, culture degree of mother and father, P, age, sex, mathematics and language achievements. (Contains 6 tables.)