title: The measurement of wisdom: a commentary on Taylor, Bates, and Webster's comparison of the SAWS and 3D-WS.
abstract: In a commentary on Taylor, Bates, and Webster's article (2011, Experimental Aging Research, 37, pp. 129-140), the author (a) clarifies the development and assessment of the Three-Dimensional Wisdom Scale (3D-WS); (b) describes the difference between the essential components of wisdom and its predictors, correlates, and consequences; and (c) conducts additional bivariate correlation analyses between the components of the 3D-WS and Webster's Self-Administered Wisdom Scale (SAWS) and all the forgiveness and psychological well-being subscales. Results show that the cognitive, reflective, and affective dimensions of the 3D-WS were significantly and positively correlated with all the forgiveness and psychological well-being subscales. By contrast, only the emotional regulation and humor components of the SAWS were consistently positively associated with those subscales. It appears that the 3D-WS measures the essential cognitive, reflective, and affective components of wisdom, whereas the SAWS contains a reflective wisdom component, a wisdom predictor, a consequence of wisdom, and two necessary but not sufficient wisdom components.
authors.affiliation: Department of Sociology and Criminology & Law, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida 32611-7330, USA. ardelt@ufl.edu
authors.forename: Monika
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Ardelt
mesh_terms: D000339:Affect; D000375:Aging / Q000523:psychology*; D003071:Cognition; D004644:Emotions; D006801:Humans; D008016:Life Change Events; D008960:Models, Psychological; D010551:Personality; D011594:Psychometrics / Q000379:methods*; D012647:Self-Assessment