Monika Ardelt Associate Professor 3219 Turlington Hall  P.O. Box 117330  Gainesville, FL 32611-7330  PHONE: (352) 392-0251 ext: 247  FAX: (352) 392-6568  E-MAIL: ardelt@soc.ufl.edu

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Research Interests:

• Adult Human Development
• Aging and the Life Course
• Wisdom, Purpose in Life, and Religiosity/Spirituality
• Aging Well and Dying Well
• Social Psychology

Courses Regularly Taught:

• Methods of Social Research I (SYA 6305)
• Methods of Social Research II (SYA 6306)
• Aging and End-of-Life Issues (SYP 6745)
• Sociology of Aging and the Life Course (SYP 4730)
• Methods of Social Research  (SYA 4300)
• Society and the Individual  (SYP 3000)
• Society and the Individual - Summer (SYP 3000)
• Group Related Internship Program - GRIP (SYA 4941 and SYA5933)

Selected Publications:

• Ardelt, Monika. “How Similar are Wise Men and Women? A Comparison Across Two Age Cohorts.” Research in Human Development, 6(1): 9-26.

• Ardelt, M. (2008). Being wise at any age. In S. J. Lopez (Ed.): Positive psychology: Exploring the best in people. Volume 1: Discovering human strengths (pp. 81-108). Westport, CT: Praeger.

• Ardelt, M. (2008). Self-development through selflessness: The paradoxical process of growing wiser. In H. A. Wayment & J. J. Bauer (Eds.), Transcending self-interest: Psychological explorations of the quiet ego (pp. 221-233). Washington, D.C.: American Psychological Association.

• Ardelt, M., & Koenig, C. S. (2007). The importance of religious orientation in dying well: Evidence from three case studies. Journal of Religion, Spirituality & Aging, 19(4), 61-79.

• Ardelt, M., & Koenig, C. S. (2006). The role of religion for hospice patients and relatively healthy older adults. Research on Aging, 28(2): 184-215.

• Ardelt, M. (2005). How wise people cope with crises and obstacles in life. ReVision: A Journal of Consciousness and Transformation, 28(1): 7-19.

• Ardelt, M. (2004). Wisdom as expert knowledge system: A critical review of a contemporary operationalization of an ancient concept. Human Development, 47(5): 257-285.

• Ardelt, M. (2004). Where can wisdom be found? – A reply to the commentaries by Baltes and Kunzmann, Sternberg, and Achenbaum. Human Development, 47(5): 304-307.

• Ardelt, M. (2003). Empirical assessment of a three-dimensional wisdom scale. Research on Aging, 25(3): 275-324.

• Ardelt, M. (2003). Effects of religion and purpose in life on elders’ subjective well-being and attitudes toward death. Journal of Religious Gerontology, 14(4): 55-77.

• Ardelt, M. (2003). Physician-assisted death. Pp. 424-434 in: C. D. Bryant et al. (eds.): Handbook of Death and Dying, Volume One: The Presence of Death, Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.

• Ardelt M., & Day, L. (2002). Parents, siblings, and peers: Close social relationships and adolescent deviance. Journal of Early Adolescence, 22(3): 310-349.

• Ardelt, M., & Eccles, J. S. (2001). Effects of mothers’ parental efficacy beliefs and promotive parenting strategies on inner-city youth. Journal of Family Issues, 22(8): 944-972.

• Ardelt, M. (2000). Still stable after all these years? Personality stability theory revisited. Social Psychology Quarterly, Special Millennium Issue on The State of Sociological Social Psychology, 63(4): 392-405.

• Ardelt, M. (2000). Intellectual versus wisdom-related knowledge: The case for a different kind of learning in the later years of life. Educational Gerontology: An International Journal of Research and Practice, 26(8): 771-789.

• Ardelt, M. (2000). Antecedents and effects of wisdom in old age: A longitudinal perspective on aging well. Research on Aging, 22(4): 360-394.

• Ardelt, M. (1998). Social crisis and individual growth: The long-term effects of the Great Depression. Journal of Aging Studies, 12(3): 291-314.

• Ardelt, M. (1997). Wisdom and life satisfaction in old age. Journal of Gerontology: Psychological Sciences, 52B(1): P15-P27.

• Elder, G. H., Eccles, J., Ardelt, M., & Lord, S. (1995). Inner city parents under economic pressure: Perspectives on the strategies of parenting." Journal of Marriage and the Family, 57: 771-784.

• Elder, G. H., Conger, R. D., Foster, E. M., & Ardelt, M. (1992). Families under economic pressure. Journal of Family Issues, 13(1): 5-37.

• Blau, P. M., Ruan, D., & Ardelt, M. (1991). Interpersonal choice and networks in China. Social Forces, 69(4): 1037-1062.

Grants: Go Back to the Top

• Co-Investigator (PI: Michel Ferrari, Ph.D., University of Toronto). A Cross-Cultural Study of Wisdom. Funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC). Amount: $74,493. Dates: June 2007 – April 2009.
• Co-Investigator: Spirituality and Living Well. Funded by the Templeton Positive Psychology Fellowship Program. Amount: $14,000 plus travel expenses to the Positive Psychology Center in Philadelphia for the Medici II meetings from May 15-July 1, 2005. Dates: May 15, 2005-May 14, 2006.
• Principal Investigator: Aging and Dying Well  Similarities and Differences. Funded by the Brookdale Foundation and the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences and the Department of Sociology at the University of Florida. Amount: $126,260; Dates: July 1999-June 2001.
• Principal Investigator: Empirical Assessment of a Three-Dimensional Wisdom Scale. Funded by the National Institutes of Health and the National Institute on Aging (1R03AG14855-01). Amount: $47,187; Dates: August 1997-December 1999.
• Principal Investigator: Empirical Assessment of a Three-Dimensional Wisdom Scale. Funded by the CLAS Research Initiation Project of the University of Florida.  Amount: $11,452; Dates: Summer 1997.

Education: Go Back to the Top

• 1994    Ph.D. Department of Sociology, UNC-CH. Dissertation: Wisdom in the Later Years: A Life Course Approach to Successful Aging.
• 1987    Diploma. Department of Sociology, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-University of Frankfurt/Main (Germany). Thesis: Die Representativität von Umfragedaten - dargestellt anhand des Vergleichs dreier Jugendstudien (The Representativeness of Survey Data.  A Comparison of Three Youth Studies).

Selected Honors and Professional Activities: Go Back to the Top

• 2008                  Colonel Allan R. and Margaret G. Crow Term Professor
• 2002-present:     Founding  Faculty Member and Member of Advisory Committee, University of Florida Center for Spirituality and Health.
• 2005:                 Templeton Positive Psychology Fellowship Award.
  
• 1999-2002:        Member of the Spirituality and Health Group Advisory Board, University of Florida.
• 1999:                  Brookdale National Fellowship Award.
• 1994:                  Distinguished Graduate Student Howard W. Odum Award. Department of Sociology, UNC-CH.

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