Department of Psychology, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, North Carolina.
School of Psychology, University of Nottingham, UK.
J Gerontol B Psychol Sci Soc Sci. 2018 Oct 10;73(8):1404-1415. doi: 10.1093/geronb/gby016.
Existing assessments of intellectual humility (IH)-a key component of wisdom-do not examine its manifestation in daily life while sufficiently focusing on the core idea of the construct: owning up to one's intellectual shortcomings. The present research sought to examine situational contingencies underlying daily manifestations of IH-relevant characteristics.
We developed a trait version of the State-Trait IH Scale in two studies and subsequently examined daily manifestations of IH-relevant characteristics utilizing a contextualized state version of the State-Trait IH Scale in a 21-day experience sampling study. Here, we tested how specific situational contingencies (associated with the context and the personality of the individual with whom participants engaged) influenced the manifestation of IH-relevant qualities.
We found strong evidence for the validity of both versions of the scale. Specifically, the state measure exhibited high within-person variability, and aggregated state assessments were strongly correlated with the trait measure. Additionally, morality positively predicted manifestation of IH, whereas disagreeableness negatively predicted manifestation of IH.
These results offer new directions for research on the expression of wisdom-related characteristics in daily life.
现有的智力谦逊（IH）评估——智慧的一个关键组成部分——没有考察其在日常生活中的表现，而只是过于关注该结构的核心思想：承认自己的智力缺陷。本研究旨在考察与 IH 相关特征的日常表现有关的情境偶然性。
我们在两项研究中开发了状态特质 IH 量表的特质版本，随后利用状态特质 IH 量表的情境化状态版本在一项为期 21 天的经验抽样研究中考察了 IH 相关特征的日常表现。在这里，我们检验了特定情境偶然性（与参与者与之交往的人的背景和个性有关）如何影响 IH 相关品质的表现。
我们为量表的两个版本提供了强有力的有效性证据。具体而言，状态测量表现出高度的个体内可变性，并且聚合的状态评估与特质测量高度相关。此外，道德感正向预测 IH 的表现，而不随和则负向预测 IH 的表现。
这些结果为研究日常生活中与智慧相关特征的表现提供了新的方向。
