Developing a Model of Wisdom Based on Successful Intelligence and Psychological Well-Being in Students: The Mediating Role of Creativity

The purpose of the present study was to develop a model of wisdom based on successful intelligence and psychological well-being in students with the mediating role of creativity. The present study employed a correlational design and the statistical population in this study included high school students of Arak, Iran in academic year of 2022-2023. The sample selected using convenience sampling, which led to the recreuiment of 500 students. Data collection tools included the wisdom scale, successful intelligence questionnaire, psychological well-being scale and creativity questionnaire. Data were analyzed using Pearson correlation and structural equations modeling. The results showed that creativity had a partial mediating role in relationship between successful intelligence and psychological well-being with wisdom. Also, findings showed that the direct effect of successful intelligence, psychological well-being and creativity were significant on wisdom. Proposed model had an acceptable fitness to the data and the analyses also revealed that %46 of variance of wisdom was explained by successful intelligence and psychological well-being through the mediating role of creativity. Based on the results of this study, it can be concluded that wisdom is affected by successful intelligence, psychological well-being, and creativity and these findings can be used to increase the level of wisdom of students.