THE PSYCHOMETRIC LOCATION OF WISDOM-RELATED PERFORMANCE - INTELLIGENCE, PERSONALITY, AND MORE

The present study aims at presenting evidence on the psychometric loca tion of a measure of wisdom-related performance in relation to standar d measures of intelligence, personality, and their interface. A sample of 125 men and women heterogeneous with regard to age, years of educa tion, and professional status responded verbally to three wisdom-relat ed dilemmas and completed a psychometric battery of 33 scales (12 test s) involving intelligence, personality, and the personality-intelligen ce interface. Findings were consistent with predictions. First, 40% of the variance in wisdom-related performance was predicted by measures of intelligence, personality, and their interface, although none of th e individual predictors could be considered equivalent to the authors' measure of wisdom-related performance. Second, the personality-intell igence-interface measures Provided the largest unique share (15%). Thi rd, wisdom-related performance evinced of air degree of measurement in dependence (uniqueness).