Table 4. Correlations and Partial Correlations (Controlling for Age, Gender, and Education) of Categories with Wisdom and with Age, Relationship Length, Gender, Education, and Number of Words.

	MORE		BWP		BWSS		Age	Longest Rel.ship	Gender	Educ.	Number of Words
	M = 1.05 SD = .53		M = 2.33 SD = .96		M = .74 SD = .11		M = 56.2 SD = 14.6	M = 24.0 SD = 14.6	Nfem = 85 Nmale = 70	M = 3.6 SD = 1.2	M = 259.3 SD =251
	r	rpartial	r	rpartial	r	rpartial	r	r	r	r	r
Content categories
Security and reliability	-.037	-.041	-.045	-.078	-.129	-.151	-.028	.013	-.059	.026	-.067
Acceptance	.079	.036	.057	.020	.052	.069	-.117	-.048	-.060	.079	.161*
Respect and conscious attention	.296**	.249**	.205*	.193*	.050	.002	-.006	.008	-.198*	.070	.144
Communication	-.006	.007	.176*	.120	-.034	.010	-.156	-.104	-.016	.082	.102
General Positive Approach	.043	.035	.046	.051	.161*	.151	.067	.095	-.069	.005	.116
Physical relationship	.130	.125	.075	.027	-.051	-.079	-.015	-.086	.127	.145	.215**
Compromise	.043	.051	.102	.050	.011	.083	-.195*	-.223**	.025	.050	.090
Meta-level categories
Generalizations and Stereotypes	-.039	.015	-.126	-.065	.019	-.039	.245**	.086	.121	-.085	.160*
Tolerance of Ambiguity	.134	.089	.152	.069	.019	.005	-.166*	-.060	-.137	.258**	.343**
Personal Development	.164*	.120	.169*	.072	.194*	.205*	-.131	-.097	-.017	.270**	.231**
Individuality and Relativity	.066	.047	.161*	.150	.022	.013	-.023	-.014	-.075	.049	.253**
Relationship as Dynamic Process	.138	120	.079	.066	.178*	.126	.072	.103	-.069	.171*	.287**
Considerate Attention	.190*	.204*	.211**	.156	.126	.160	-.145	-.103	.031	.177*	.179*
Formal categories
Lists	-.161	-.156	-.050	.004	-.172*	-.199*	.110	.076	-.057	-.180*	-.644**
Personal Experiences Only	.023	.011	-.185*	-.106	-.017	-.027	.083	.136	-.004	-.199*	.358**