Comparison of wisdom, forgiveness and flow experience among elderly and young people of Qazvin province

The aim of the present study is to compare wisdom, forgiveness and flow experience as components of positive psychology in two groups of elderly and youths in Qazvin province. This study in terms of nature and method is an ex post facto study of all kinds of descriptive research .statistical population consists of elderly and young women and men in Qazvin province. The sample size of research includes 60 people who were picked by quota non probability sampling. Data collection instruments were ardelt s wisdom questionnaire (2003), ray s forgiveness questionnaire (2001) and Mihaly s flow questionnaire (1991). In this research in order to test hypotheses, multivariable analyze of variance (MANOVA) was performed by spss22 software. The results of this study show that there is a significant difference in two groups of 20 till 40 years and 65 till 80 years in terms of wisdom, forgiveness and flow components.

Keywords:

wisdom , forgiveness , flow experience