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Peer reviewedOrwoll, Lucinda; Achenbaum, W. Andrew – Human Development, 1993
Drawing on a model of wisdom that includes components in three domains (personality, cognition, and conation) and across three levels (intrapersonal, interpersonal, and transpersonal), highlights potential differences in the ways women and men attain and express wisdom; and examines interactive patterns across the components of wisdom. (BC)
Descriptors: Individual Development, Interpersonal Competence, Models, Personality
Peer reviewedSinnott, Jan – Human Development, 1993
Comments on the article by Orwoll and Achenbaum in this issue. Suggests that Orwoll and Achenbaum present a concept of wisdom as multidetermined and approachable in a scientific model and that their effort to examine wisdom is undertaken in a context of cross-disciplinary study. (BC)
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Individual Development, Interdisciplinary Approach, Lifelong Learning
Peer reviewedSettersten, Richard A., Jr. – Human Development, 1997
Outlines emerging debates on salience of age in the life course. Notes study examining adults' perceptions of the relevance of age for life-course transitions related to family, education and work, or health and death: age was considered most salient in the family sphere; and was more salient for men than for women and for nonwhites than for…
Descriptors: Adults, Age, Attitudes, Behavior Standards
