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Monika Ardelt is affiliated with the University of Florida in the United States and has an extensive research portfolio primarily within the fields of Psychology and Social Sciences. Their work contributes notably to several subfields including Social Psychology, Neuropsychology and Physiological Psychology, Applied Psychology, General Health Professions, and Clinical Psychology.

Their research mainly addresses topics related to Psychological Well-being and Life Satisfaction, Aging and Gerontology Research, Optimism, Hope, and Well-being, as well as Health Disparities and Outcomes. Additional thematic areas include Employment and Welfare Studies, Retirement, Disability, and Employment, along with Job Satisfaction and Organizational Behavior.

Monika Ardelt's recent publications demonstrate a focus on the concept of wisdom and its implications for well-being and organizational behavior. Notable recent papers include:

  • The Science of Wisdom in a Polarized World: Knowns and Unknowns, 2020, Psychological Inquiry
  • Linking Wise Organizations to Wise Leadership, Job Satisfaction, and Well-Being, 2021, Frontiers in Communication
  • Three-Dimensional Wisdom and Perceived Stress among College Students, 2020, Journal of Adult Development
  • Does Self-Transcendent Wisdom Mediate the Relation between Spirituality and Well-Being? A Test Across Six Nations, 2023, Journal of Happiness Studies

Their work is often published in venues such as Innovation in Aging, Aging & Mental Health, Psychological Inquiry, Frontiers in Communication, and Journal of Counseling & Development.

Monika Ardelt collaborates frequently with several researchers across multiple projects. Frequent co-authors include Michel Ferrari, Bhavna Sharma, Juensung J. Kim, Jared Kingsbury, and Chidimma Doris Azubuike.

Best Publications

  • Managing to Make It: Urban Families and Adolescent Success

    Frank F. Furstenberg;Monika Ardelt

  • Empirical Assessment of a Three-Dimensional Wisdom Scale

    Monika Ardelt

  • Inner-City Parents Under Economic Pressure: Perspectives on the Strategies of Parenting.

    Glen H. Elder;Jacquelynne S. Eccles;Monika Ardelt;Sarah Lord

  • Effects of Mothers' Parental Efficacy Beliefs and Promotive Parenting Strategies on Inner-City Youth

    Monika Ardelt;Jacquelynne S. Eccles

  • Wisdom as Expert Knowledge System: A Critical Review of a Contemporary Operationalization of an Ancient Concept

    Monika Ardelt

  • Wisdom and Life Satisfaction in Old Age

    Monika Ardelt

  • Families Under Economic Pressure

    Glen H. Elder;Rand D. Conger;E. Michael Foster;Monika Ardelt

  • Expert Consensus on Characteristics of Wisdom: A Delphi Method Study

    Dilip V. Jeste;Monika Ardelt;Dan Blazer;Helena C. Kraemer

  • INTELLECTUAL VERSUS WISDOM-RELATED KNOWLEDGE: THE CASE FOR A DIFFERENT KIND OF LEARNING IN THE LATER YEARS OF LIFE

    Monika Ardelt

  • Still stable after all these years? Personality stability theory revisited.

    Monika Ardelt

  • Antecedents and Effects of Wisdom in Old Age A Longitudinal Perspective on Aging Well

    Monika Ardelt

  • The Science of Wisdom in a Polarized World: Knowns and Unknowns

    Igor Grossmann;Nic M. Weststrate;Monika Ardelt;Justin Peter Brienza

  • Effects of Religion and Purpose in Life on Elders' Subjective Well-Being and Attitudes Toward Death

    Monika Ardelt

  • Parents, Siblings, and Peers:: Close Social Relationships and Adolescent Deviance

    Monika Ardelt;Laurie Day

  • How wise people cope with crises and obstacles in life

    Monika Ardelt

  • Self-Reported Wisdom and Happiness: An Empirical Investigation

    Ad Bergsma;Monika Ardelt

  • The Role of Religion for Hospice Patients and Relatively Healthy Older Adults

    Monika Ardelt;Cynthia S. Koenig

  • Are Older Adults Wiser Than College Students? A Comparison of Two Age Cohorts

    Monika Ardelt

  • The Measurement of Wisdom: A Commentary on Taylor, Bates, and Webster's Comparison of the SAWS and 3D-WS

    Monika Ardelt

  • Wisdom and Hard Times: The Ameliorating Effect of Wisdom on the Negative Association Between Adverse Life Events and Well-Being.

    Monika Ardelt;Dilip V. Jeste

  • The Many Faces of Wisdom An Investigation of Cultural-Historical Wisdom Exemplars Reveals Practical, Philosophical, and Benevolent Prototypes

    Nic M. Weststrate;Michel Ferrari;Monika Ardelt

Frequent Co-Authors

George E. Vaillant
George E. Vaillant Harvard University
Dilip V. Jeste
Dilip V. Jeste University of California, San Diego
Glen H. Elder
Glen H. Elder University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Jacquelynne S. Eccles
Jacquelynne S. Eccles University of California, Irvine
Lawrence G. Calhoun
Lawrence G. Calhoun University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Merril Silverstein
Merril Silverstein Syracuse University
Howard C. Nusbaum
Howard C. Nusbaum University of Chicago
Helena C. Kraemer
Helena C. Kraemer Stanford University
Igor Grossmann
Igor Grossmann University of Waterloo
Rand D. Conger
Rand D. Conger University of California, Davis

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