The Wise Thinking and Acting Questionnaire: The Cognitive Facet of Wisdom and its Relation with Memory, Affect, and Hope

Μoraitou, Despina; Efklides, Anastasia

doi:10.1007/s10902-011-9295-1

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“…Four items measure agency thinking through responses to items such as, "Even when others get discouraged, I know I can find a way to solve the problem." This scale, and modifications of it for use with particular samples such as children, adults, and other sub-groups of the population, has been reported in the literature as a valid and reliable measure of hope (Chang & Banks, 2007;Hoy, Suldo, & Mendez, 2013;Kemer & Atik, 2012;Marques, Lopez, & Mitchell, 2013;Moraitou & Efklides, 2012). Responses in the present study achieved a Cronbach's alpha coefficient of α = .79, showing good internal reliability for the measure.…”

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“…Hope predicts high levels of life satisfaction (Hoy, Suldo, Mendez, 2013;Kemer & Atik, 2012;Moraitou & Efklides, 2012). Agency and pathways thinking predict life satisfaction better than reduced stress or high self-efficacy do (Bailey, Eng, Frisch, & Snyder, 2007;O'Sullivan, 2011).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Past experiences, encouragement, mistakes, reinforcement, negative feedback, social modeling, interpersonal anxiety, and self-construal all form antecedents to communication apprehension (Ayres, 1988;Honeycutt, Choi, & DeBerry, 2009;Merz, 2009). Hope, self-compassion, and relational social skill each individually predict life satisfaction (Gere & Schimmack, 2013;Hoy, Suldo, Mendez, 2013;Kemer & Atik, 2012;Mongrain, Chin, & Shapira, 2011;Moraitou & Efklides, 2012;Neff & Beretvas, 2013;Platsidou, 2013). These individual relationships are noted in the literature.…”

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“…Snyder (2000) notes that multiple metaphorical descriptions of hope abound, as in the opinion of Sophocles that it is a human foible; of Plato that it is a foolish counselor; of Euripides that it is a curse; of Francis Bacon that it is a bad supper; of Benjamin Franklin that it is an illusion upon which one could die fasting; and in common parlance that it is a false promise. Recent psychological conceptions portray hope as a character strength, cognitive-motivational influence, expectation, future-oriented positive emotion, relational process, and trait (Hellman, Pittman, & Munoz, 2013;Hoy, Suldo, & Mendez, 2013;Moraitou & Efklides, 2012;Valle, Huebner, & Suldo, 2006;Yohani, 2008).…”

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The relationship of hope to self-compassion, relational social skill, communication apprehension, and life satisfaction

Umphrey¹,

Sherblom²

2014

Intnl. J. Wellbeing

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Abstract:Hope is a habitual way of thinking about goals, the potential pathways of achieving them and the motivated agency for their accomplishment. Past research shows the beneficial behavioral outcomes of having hope, but little research investigates the relationship of hope to indicators of psychological, relational, communicative, or subjective wellbeing. The present study takes an interdisciplinary approach to test a model of the relationship between hope and wellbeing, as expressed through self-compassion, relational social skill, communication apprehension, and life satisfaction. Results show a pattern of relationships that suggest intervention programs designed to change thinking habits can encourage not only more hopeful thought but also enhanced self-compassion, greater skill in personal relationships, less communication apprehension, and heightened life satisfaction.

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Sherblom²

2014

Intnl. J. Wellbeing

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“…Based, firstly, on findings in the field of cognitive aging, supporting that fluid intelli-gence increases rapidly in the early years of life and declines with aging (Baltes, 1997;Moraitou & Efklides, 2012;Salthouse et al, 2008), and, secondly, on the hypothesis of "retrogenesis", the aim of the present study was the comparison of the, related with fluid intelligence, higher order thinking abilities such as general abstraction and reasoning, between the developing children and the cognitively healthy older adults. The comparison has been conducted through the investigation of the qualitative changes in the latent structure of the CCT-1, from age to age, using CFA.…”

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Comparing the Latent Structure of the Children’s Category Test-Level 1 among Young Children and Older Adults: A Preliminary Study

Παπαντωνίου¹,

Μoraitou²,

Dinou³

et al. 2016

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The aim of this paper was the comparison of the higher order nonverbal abilities, between young children and older adults. In specific, 42 kindergarten and 56 elementary school students (age range: 5 -8 years), as well as 118 new-old adults and 27 old-old adults (age range: 61 -88 years), were examined in the Children's Category Test-Level 1 (CCT-1). Findings from the Confirmatory Factor Analyses that were applied to data, possibly reflect the delay of development of general abstraction and working memory in the group of kindergarten students and the decline of them in the group of old-old adults.

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Measuring Practical Wisdom

Meyer¹,

Rego²

2020

International Handbooks in Business Ethics

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Interest in the virtues is now growing in business and management, both among scholars and practitioners. Interestingly, one virtue that should stand out but has been somewhat neglected is phronesis, or practical wisdom. Described by Aristotle as the "mother" of all other virtues, phronesis is key for management scholars for, at least, two reasons: (1) its importance as to individual and leadership development and effectiveness and (2) its complexity that makes it hardly conducive to be measured. Thus, this chapter's aim is twofold. First, it depicts phronesis as an up and coming core element in management and leadership.

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The Wise Thinking and Acting Questionnaire: The Cognitive Facet of Wisdom and its Relation with Memory, Affect, and Hope

Cited by 29 publications

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The relationship of hope to self-compassion, relational social skill, communication apprehension, and life satisfaction

The relationship of hope to self-compassion, relational social skill, communication apprehension, and life satisfaction

Comparing the Latent Structure of the Children’s Category Test-Level 1 among Young Children and Older Adults: A Preliminary Study

Measuring Practical Wisdom

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