The wisdom development scale: Further validity investigations

International Journal of Aging and Human Development

Volumn 68, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 289-320

  Greene, Jeffrey ^a   Brown, Scott ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b Center for Language and Brain   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; COLLEGE STUDENT; CONSTRUCT VALIDITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTELLIGENCE TEST; KNOWLEDGE; LEARNING; MALE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; NORMAL HUMAN; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; RELIABILITY; SAMPLE; SCORING SYSTEM; WISDOM DEVELOPMENT SCALE;

ADULT; BEHAVIOR; COGNITION; DATA COLLECTION; EMOTIONS; FACULTY; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTELLIGENCE; JUDGMENT; MALE; MODELS, THEORETICAL; MORALS; PSYCHOMETRICS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; STUDENTS;

EID: 67650447394     PISSN: 00914150     EISSN: 15413535     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2190/AG.68.4.b     Document Type: Article

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