Comparing self-report and performance measurement of wisdom in Turkish sample: Relations with self-transcendence and cognitive flexibility

ABSTRACT

The aims of this study are twofold: the first is to examine the relationship between performance measurement (PM) and self-report measurement for wisdom, and the second aim is to reveal the relationship between self-reported wisdom, cognitive flexibility, and self-transcendence. Also, the Berlin Wisdom Paradigm is adapted to Turkish to assess wisdom as a PM. One hundred and fifty-one university students were included in the study. Five criteria of BWP were used for wisdom PM. As self-report measurements, San-Diego Wisdom Scale, Self-Transcendence Scale, and Cognitive Flexibility Inventory (CFI) were used. The correlations between the total and subdimensions of the measurements were examined. Accordingly, only self-transcendence is positively correlated with PM. Total words used in the PM correlated with all three self-report measurements. There is only gender difference in CFI scores. According to the classification model revealed by factor analysis, the negative components of personal wisdom, which indicate coping with difficult situations, can be separated from the positive components of personal wisdom.

KEYWORDS:

• Wisdom
• cognitive flexibility
• self-transcendence
• self-report
• performance
• measurement

Acknowledgments

We would like to thank the students and lecturers of the AYBU Psychology Department for helping to collect the data.

Disclosure statement

No potential conflict of interest was reported by the authors.

Data availability statement

The data that support the findings of this study are openly available in 4TU. Research Data at http://doi.org/10.4121/20079062.