Original scientific paper
https://doi.org/10.59549/n.164.1-2.4
Future teachers’ wisdom and difficult life experiences
Marlena Plavšić
orcid.org/0000-0003-4035-6610
; Juraj Dobrila University of Pula, Faculty of Humanities
Abstract
Webster’s H.E.R.O.(E.) model of wisdom was used to explore if students,
future teachers, of the same age but in two cohorts differed in wisdom and
its dimensions and if their wisdom differed depending on how difficult they
considered their lives to be. 116 students were included in the 2012 cohort
with an average age of 21.54 years, and 115 students participated in the
2022 cohort with an average age of 21.17 years. Wisdom was measured
with Webster’s Self-Assessed Wisdom Scale (SAWS). The results revealed no
differences between the two cohorts in wisdom and its five dimensions in the
H.E.R.O.(E.) model. The students that estimated their lives as more difficult
scored higher on total wisdom results and on the majority of its dimensions
(experience, reminiscence/reflection, and openness), except for emotion regulation
and humour.
Keywords
adversity, emotion regulation, humour, openness, reminiscence, reflection, SAWS
Hrčak ID:
304350
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Publication date:
30.6.2023.
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