Comparing the psychometric properties of two measures of wisdom: Predicting forgiveness and psychological well-being with the self-assessed wisdom scale (SAWS) and the three-dimensional wisdom scale (3D-WS)

Experimental Aging Research

Volumn 37, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 129-141

  Taylor, Matthew ^a   Bates, Glen ^a   Webster, Jeffrey Dean ^b  

^a SWINBURNE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

^b LANGARA COLLEGE   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EMOTION; EVALUATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMOR; LIFE EVENT; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PERSONALITY; PERSONALITY TEST; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOMETRY; QUESTIONNAIRE; SELF EVALUATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGING; AUSTRALIA; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIFE CHANGE EVENTS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERSONALITY; PERSONALITY ASSESSMENT; PSYCHOMETRICS; QUESTIONNAIRES; SELF-ASSESSMENT; WIT AND HUMOR AS TOPIC; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79953001103     PISSN: 0361073X     EISSN: 10964657     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/0361073X.2011.554508     Document Type: Article

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