Wisdom as related to intelligence and emotional intelligence

Pages: 694-700
Jagjeet Sandhu and Umed Singh (Department of Psychology, Kurukshetra Univetsity Kurukshetra, Haryana)

The present study was mainly designed to examine systematically the differences, if any, in the level of wisdom, general intelligence and emotional intelligence of school and college students, and also to examine the structured interrelationship among them at school level and college level. For the realization of the research objective, 105 school students and 105 college students were tested with 3-D Wisdom scale, Raven’s Standard Progressive Matices, Hundal General Mental Ability Test and Multidimensional Measure of Emotional Intelligence. Obtained data were analyzed using Descriptive Statistics, t test, Pearson’s Correlations and Principal Component Factor Analysis. Results have revealed higher mean score of college students on three measures of wisdom, fluid intelligence, crystallized intelligence and four measures of emotional intelligence depicting the positive impact of age and education on the development of these three cognitive abilities. Pearson’s correlations and Factor Analysis have revealed wisdom to be more closely related to crystallized intelligence than fluid intelligence. Three dimensions of wisdom have correlated differently with five dimensions of emotional intelligence. Finding depicts the malleable nature of wisdom, intelligence, and emotional intelligence and some structured relationship among them.