How to measure wisdom: Content, reliability, and validity of five measures

Frontiers in Psychology

Volumn 4, Issue JUL, 2013, Pages

  Glück, Judith ^a   König, Susanne ^a   Naschenweng, Katja ^a   Redzanowski, Uwe ^a   Dorner, Lara ^a   Straßer, Irene ^a   Wiedermann, Wolfgang ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KLAGENFURT   (Austria)

Author keywords

Adult self transcendence inventory; Berlin wisdom paradigm; Measurement of wisdom; Reliability; Self assessed wisdom scale; Three dimensional wisdom scale; Validity

Indexed keywords

EID: 84885351645     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16641078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2013.00405     Document Type: Article

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