Wisdom helps strengthen resilience and mastery to reduce stress and increase well-being, improving a person's ability to better handle later-life adversity and age-related loss.
Overall, women scored higher on compassion-related items and self-reflection, while men scored higher on emotional regulation and cognitive-related items.
Wisdom is strongly and positively associated with resilience, happiness, and mental well-being, and negatively correlated with loneliness, depression, and anxiety.
Both wisdom and loneliness appear to be influenced by microbial diversity within the gut, a new study reports.
Researchers report spirituality may be a component of wisdom, but pro-social behaviors such as empathy and compassion are more critical elements.
A new study reveals a correlation between higher levels of wisdom in those with schizophrenia and general well-being, better cognitive performance and everyday function.
A new study reports our level of wisdom differs from one situation to the next, and also can be affected by different factors such as being alone or with friends.
A new study reports heart rate variation and thinking processes work together to enable better reasoning about complex social issues.
