Measuring Wisdom: Existing Approaches, Continuing Challenges, and New Developments

Abstract The question how wisdom can best be measured is still open to debate. Currently, there are two groups of wisdom measures: open-ended performance measures and self-report measures. This overview article describes the most popular current measures of wisdom: the Berlin Wisdom Paradigm, the Br...

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Published inThe journals of gerontology. Series B, Psychological sciences and social sciences Vol. 73; no. 8; pp. 1393 - 1403
Main Author Glück, Judith
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published US Oxford University Press 10.10.2018
Subjects
Attitude
Human Development
Humans
Knowledge
Personality Assessment
Reproducibility of Results
Self Report
Measurement
Validity
Wisdom
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Summary:Abstract The question how wisdom can best be measured is still open to debate. Currently, there are two groups of wisdom measures: open-ended performance measures and self-report measures. This overview article describes the most popular current measures of wisdom: the Berlin Wisdom Paradigm, the Bremen Wisdom Paradigm, Grossmann’s wise-reasoning approach, the Three-Dimensional Wisdom Scale, the Self-Assessed Wisdom Scale, and the Adult Self-Transcendence Inventory. It discusses the specific challenges of both open-ended and self-report approaches with respect to content validity, convergent and divergent validity, concurrent and discriminant validity, and ecological validity. Finally, promising new developments are outlined that may bridge the gap between wisdom as a competence and wisdom as an attitude and increase ecological validity by being more similar to real-life manifestations of wisdom. These new developments include autobiographical approaches and advice-giving paradigms.
ISSN:1079-5014
1758-5368
DOI:10.1093/geronb/gbx140