People nominated as wise: a comparative study of wisdom-related knowledge

Article Abstract:

Individual differences in wisdom-related performance among older clinical psychologists and highly educated old and young control groups were determined. Subjects were asked to perform two tasks and they were evaluated using a set of five wisdom criteria. Results showed that there was no significant difference in the performance of young and older subjects. However, clinical psychologists outperformed the control groups. Subjects considered wise performed well in the existential life management task and scored high on the value relativism criterion.

Clinical psychologists, Wisdom

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Profiles of psychologcal functioning in the old and oldest old

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Twelve measures of functioning were used for a cluster analysis of 516 aged individuals in the Berlin Aging Study. The measures included personality, intellectual and social functioning. The functional status of the individuals was linked to their ages, with the very old being less able to function. Individuals aged between 85-years-old and 103-years-old were at 2.5 times greater risk of having problems functioning. This finding backs the notion of a fourth age.

Age groups, Intelligence (Psychology), Age and intelligence

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A systemic-wholistic view of psychological functioning in very old age: introduction to a collection of articles from the Berlin Aging Study

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The Berlin Aging Study (BASE) studies a sample of people aged between 70-years-old and 105-years-old and uses multidisciplinary data collection. There are 258 women and 258 men in the study. Human aging involves a number of dimensions such as institutional, social, psychological and physical. A systemic-wholistic approach seeks to take these dimensions into account and integrate them. The BASE data is useful in for carrying out systemic-wholistic analyses.

Statistics, Gerontology

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