Journal of cross-cultural gerontology

Cross-cultural comparison of self-transcendent wisdom between the United States and Korea.

Journal of cross-cultural gerontology June 1, 2015 Sulim Lee, Soyoung Choun, Carolyn M. Aldwin et al.

Whether wisdom is a culturally-specific or universal construct is a matter of some debate (see Curnow 1999; Grossman et al. Psychological Science, 2012). This study compared similarities and differences in the factor structure of a measure of wisdom focused on self-transcendence in U.S. (n = 305, M(age) = 33.99) and Korean samples (n = 838, M(age) = 30.28), with ages ranging from 20 to 73). The...