The Model of Wisdom: Role of Personality Traits, Successful Intelligence With the Meditating of Patience and Self-Efficacy

he purpose of this research was to introduce and test a causal model of investigating wisdom behaviors. 440 undergraduate (281 women, 159 men) were selected by random cluster sampling method in Shiraz University in academic year 98-99. They completed Self-Assessed Wisdom Scale (Webster, 2003), NEO Questionnaire Short Form (Khormaei & Farmani, 2014), Successful Intelligence Scale (Sternberg & Grigorenko, 2002), Patience Scale (Khormaei, Farmani & Soltani, 2015), and Coping Self - efficacy (Chesney, Neilands, Chambers, Taylor & Folkman, 2006). The result of the present study supported the meditational effect of patience and coping self - efficacy. In this regards, agreeableness, conscientiousness, neuroticism and successful intelligence predicted wisdom indirectly by the mediation role of patience and coping self - efficacy. Accordingly, 45% of the wisdom variance were explained by these variables. Therefore, the big factor personality dimensions and successful intelligence increasepatience. So students who are patience to face the problems have more coping self - efficacy skills than those who are not patience; and finally result, they would behave wisely.