1997/11/01 by Ursula M. Staudinger, David F. Lopez, Paul B. Baltes · 5 citations
Psychology · #Aging and Gerontology Research #Big Five personality traits #Cognition #Developmental psychology #Fluid and crystallized intelligence #Fluid intelligence #Personality #Personality test #Psychiatry #Psychological Well-being and Life Satisfaction #Psychological and Temporal Perspectives Research #Psychology #Psychometric tests #Psychometrics #Social psychology #Test validity #Variance (accounting)
paper · doi:10.1177/01461672972311007
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The present study aims at presenting evidence on the psychometric location of a measure of wisdom-related performance in relation to standard measures of intelligence, personality, and their interface. A sample of 125 men and women heterogeneous with regard to age, years of education, and professional status responded verbally to three wisdom-related dilemmas and completed a psychometric battery of 33 scales (12 tests) involving intelligence, personality, and the personality-intelligence interface. Findings were consistent with predictions. First, 40% of the variance in wisdom-related performance was predicted by measures of intelligence, personality, and their interface, although none of the individual predictors could be considered equivalent to the authors' measure of wisdom-related performance. Second, the personality-intelligence-interface measures provided the largest unique share (15%). Third, wisdom-related performance evinced a fair degree of measurement independence (uniqueness).