Table 2 Sample characteristics and correlations between reflective orientation and socio-emotional awareness

From: Dimensions of wisdom perception across twelve countries on five continents

 

r

CI 95%

Age mean (SD)

% Female

N

Languages

Asia

  India

0.88

[0.84 –0.92]

30.9 (10.9)

50

374

Hindi, Tamil, and Meitei

  China

0.84

[0.79– 0.88]

22.6 (5.9)

71

225

Mandarin

  Korea and Japan

0.75

[0.69– 0.81]

42.3 (0.5)

50

308

Korean and Japanese

Africa

  South Africa

0.83

[0.78– 0.87]

34.5 (11.9)

64

524

Afrikaans, Sepedi, and Zulu

  Morocco

0.33

[0.24– 0.43]

34.4 (14.2)

47

181

Arabic

Europe

  Slovakia

0.77

[0.73– 0.81]

30.1 (13.2)

24

246

Slovakian

Americas

  North America (Canada and US)

0.58

[0.52– 0.63]

26.7 (10.5)

64

500

English

  South America (Ecuador and Peru)

0.41

[0.32– 0.49]

22.3 (4.8)

59

349

Spanish

Pooled sample

0.69

[0.66– 0.71]

30.6 (12.7)

55

2707

 
  1. Note: r = correlation coefficients, estimated at the within level by a partial metric invariance multigroup multilevel confirmatory factor analysis model (see caption to Fig. 2 for details).