What Doesn’t Break You Makes You Wiser: An Experimental Validation of Personal Wisdom Development Through Regret Handling and Personality Dispositions

Personal growth occurs with life experiences and, most importantly, reflecting on negative experiences. This article argues that personal wisdom development involves pain and suffering yet feels more satisfying in retrospect. The present study attempts to explore, 1) if people different personality dispositions differ the choices handling regret face of failure 2) higher action orientation chose a risky option how they handle it, finally 3) does disposition predict handling. results suggested openness significantly influence choice-making. Individuals high explore alternatives, choose options, report less faced failure. mediator analysis individuals initiative tendencies than their counterparts. However, initiatives experience only one them.