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What is wisdom and who has it more.

Team of American researchers decided to determine who is still wiser — women or men. To do this, they used 2 proven scales. , well-being and includes cognitive, reflective, and affective components.

In general, there are several components to which wisdom is attributed:

• prosocial behavior, considering compassion and compassion;
• emotional regulation with a tendency to a stable positive attitude;

< li>self-reflection and awareness;

• the ability to recognize and tolerate uncertainty and disagreement;
• determination.

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Researchers have for the most part concluded that wisdom should be «androgynous», meaning that gender bias should be avoided, both in terms of conceptualization and measurement. But the MIRECC in San Diego (California, USA), the University of California and the University of Colorado decided to study gender differences in wisdom and find out if they affect human well-being.

How the analysis was done

• The study was conducted with the participation of 659 people aged 27 to 103 years. Among them were 334 women and 325 men. The sample excluded people living in nursing homes, in need of daily care, or terminally ill.
• All volunteers completed the Three-Dimensional Wisdom Scale (3D-WS) and the San Diego Wisdom Scale (SD-WISE) questionnaires. The first contains 39 items that cover 3 «dimensions» wisdom: cognitive, affective, or compassionate/reflective.
• The second consists of 24 items, which belongs to the six «components» wisdom: prosocial behavior (empathy and empathy), emotional regulation, self-reflection, acceptance of uncertainty and diversity of points of view, decisiveness and social mediation.

Study results

We found that men and women have different relative degree of wisdom — probably due to both sociocultural and biological factors,
— said in the study.

Women scored higher in areas related to compassion, tolerance, intuition, introspection, prosocial behavior and acceptance of different points of view, while men scored slightly higher in determination and regulation of emotions.

The overall score on the 3-D-WS wisdom scale was higher in women, but on the SD scale -WISE scientists found no gender differences. Although women were fairer than men when it came to caring and impartiality.

It is worth noting that for both participants and participants, wisdom was correlated with mental well-being and optimism, lower levels of depression and loneliness.