Exploring Wisdom as Cognitive Character Strength and its Influence on Family Environment

Pages: 142-145
M. Aswathy and Sampathkumar (Department of Studies in Psychology, University of Mysore, Mysuru, Karnataka)

Character Strengths are the positive parts of your personality that guides how you think, feel and behave. One of the virtues in the classification of character strengths is wisdom and knowledge. Wisdom is a cognitive strength that encompasses positive characteristics associated to the learning and application of knowledge in the pursuit of happiness. The family environment involves the social situations and societal terms within family members. The present study aims to find out the influence of wisdom on family environment. A total of 465 college students from different parts of Kerala have been selected for this study. Findings of the study shows positive relationship between wisdom and family environment. Also it is found that girls scored more than boys in wisdom and also girls have better family environment than boys. It also revealed people with high wisdom scored significantly more on family environment and there is no interaction effect between gender and wisdom in family environment.