Empirical Assessment of a Three-Dimensional Wisdom Scale

By Monika Ardelt. 2003

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Subfields: Applied Psychology, General Health Professions, Neuropsychology and Physiological Psychology

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A Process View of Wisdom (2008, background): “Ardelt (2000a, 2003) defines wisdom as a personality”
The Science of Wisdom in a Polarized World: Knowns and Unknowns (2020, background): “Jingle (same label, different meaning): A range of conceptualizations of wisdom emphasize “reflection” (e.g., Ardelt, 2003; Webster, 2003), but refer to different psychological processes.”
Life Satisfaction, Openness Value, Self-Transcendence, and Wisdom (2011, methodology): “The scale has been empirically demonstrated to have adequate reliability and validity ( Ardelt 2003 ).”
The Wisdom Development Scale: Translating the Conceptual to the Concrete (2006, methodology): “In addition, it is not clear how Ardelt (2003) went about the process of first pruning down her scale items and then confirming the overall reduced scale.”
What is compassion and how can we measure it? A review of definitions and measures. (2016, neutral): “3D-WS = 3-Dimensional Wisdom Scale (Ardelt, 2003); CCAT = Compassionate Care Assessment Tool; CLS = Compassionate Love Scale; CS-P = Pommier Compassion Scale; CS-M=”
Wise Reasoning in the Face of Everyday Life Challenges (2016, background): “…research on wisdom-related thought has mainly concerned hypothetical in-lab situations (Grossmann & Kross, 2014; Kross & Grossmann, 2012; Kunzmann & Baltes, 2003; Staudinger & Baltes, 1996) or has employed single-shot trait self-assessments of personal attributes (Ardelt, 2003; Webster, 2007).”
Why are Wise People Happier? An Explanatory Model of Wisdom and Emotional Well-Being in Older Adults (2013, methodology): “Wisdom was assessed using Ardelt’s (2003) Three-Dimensional Wisdom Scale (3D-WS), in which wisdom is construed as a latent variable with three indicators: cognitive, reflective, and affective dimensions.”
An examination of self-compassion in relation to positive psychological functioning and personality traits (2007, methodology): “Ardelt (2003) has demonstrated that the scale has content validity (as assessed by three independent judges), convergent validity (high scores on the scale were linked to peer nominations of wisdom), discriminant validity (e.g., no signiWcant relation to income or social desirability) and…”
Leaders’ Personal Wisdom and Leader–Member Exchange Quality: The Role of Individualized Consideration (2014, background): “For example, in terms of predictive validity, the scale was positively related to well-being, mastery, a sense of purpose in life, and subjective health, and negatively related to depressive symptoms, feelings of economic pressure, death avoidance, and fear of death (Ardelt 2003).”
Wisdom principles as a meta-theoretical basis for evaluating leadership (2009, methodology): “Given that wisdom is associated with many positive characteristics (Ardelt, 2003, p. 276), further research into creating the organizational conditions that are conducive to wisdom would be warranted: this is especially so given that individuals are only weak carriers of wisdom (Baltes &…”
Self-Reported Wisdom and Happiness: An Empirical Investigation (2011, positive): “At the website, readers had the option to ﬁll out a standardized on-line survey consisting of the 39 items of the Three-Dimensional Wisdom Scale (Ardelt 2003).”
The Quiet Ego Scale: Measuring the Compassionate Self-Identity (2015, methodology): “The Three Dimensional Wisdom Scale (3D-WS; Ardelt 2003) has 39 items and was used to assess affective, cognitive, and reflective forms of wisdom.”