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Nancy Eisenberg - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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prosociality the contribution of traits values and self efficacy beliefs
Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 2012Co-Authors: Gian Vittorio Caprara, Guido Alessandri, Nancy EisenbergAbstract:The present study examined how agreeableness, self-Transcendence values, and empathic self-efficacy beliefs predict individuals' tendencies to engage in prosocial behavior (i.e., prosociality) across time. Participants were 340 young adults, 190 women and 150 men, age approximately 21 years at Time 1 and 25 years at Time 2. Measures of agreeableness, self-Transcendence, empathic self-efficacy beliefs, and prosociality were collected at 2 time points. The findings corroborated the posited paths of relations, with agreeableness directly predicting self-Transcendence and indirectly predicting empathic self-efficacy beliefs and prosociality. Self-Transcendence mediated the relation between agreeableness and empathic self-efficacy beliefs. Empathic self-efficacy beliefs mediated the relation of agreeableness and self-Transcendence to prosociality. Finally, earlier prosociality predicted agreeableness and empathic self-efficacy beliefs assessed at Time 2. The posited conceptual model accounted for a significant portion of variance in prosociality and provides guidance to interventions aimed at promoting prosociality.
Michael R. Levenson - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Self-Transcendence : conceptualization and measurement
International journal of aging & human development, 2005Co-Authors: Michael R. Levenson, Patricia A. Jennings, Carolyn M. Aldwin, Ray W. ShiraishiAbstract:Self-Transcendence has been hypothesized to be a critical component of wisdom (Curnow, 1999) and adaptation in later life (Tornstam, 1994). It reflects a decreasing reliance on externals for definition of the self, increasing interiority and spirituality, and a greater sense of connectedness with past and future generations. The Adult Self-Transcendence Inventory was administered to 351 individuals along with the NEO-FFI Personality Scale (McCrae & Costa, 1989). A principal axis factor analysis identified two factors: self-Transcendence and alienation. The relationships between self-Transcendence and neuroticism, openness to experience, extraversion, and agreeableness were significant, although modest, suggesting that self-Transcendence cannot be accounted for in terms of positive personality traits alone. As expected, a multiple regression analysis indicated that self-Transcendence was negatively related to neuroticism and positively related to meditation practice. The present study appears to lend support to the construct of self-Transcendence.
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Wisdom as self-Transcendence: What’s love (& individualism) got to do with it? ☆
Journal of Research in Personality, 2005Co-Authors: Michael R. LevensonAbstract:Certain spiritual and contemplative traditions (e.g., Mahayana Buddhism, and Sufism) suggest that love or compassion may be one path toward wisdom. Fromm (1956) argued that certain cultures, particularly capitalistic ones, hinder productive and mature forms of love, and thus perhaps wisdom. In the first study, 90 Southeast Asian, Russian/Slavic, and Tibetan community participants completed a survey containing measures of cultural syndromes, immature love, and self-Transcendence, an aspect of wisdom. The second study collected similar data on 164 undergraduate students. The results of these two studies revealed that one cultural syndrome, vertical individualism, was negatively associated with self-Transcendence and positively with immature love. An egalitarian cultural stance was also related to self-Transcendence among college students. The results did not support a mediating role for immature love between vertical individualism and self-Transcendence. Future studies, particularly longitudinal ones, are needed to establish the causal or reciprocal relationships among culture, love, and self-Transcendence.
Doris D. Coward - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Self-Transcendence and correlates in a healthy population.
Nursing research, 1996Co-Authors: Doris D. CowardAbstract:The purpose of this study was to document the presence of self-Transcendence perspectives in a healthy population and to compare self-Transcendence and related concepts with previous findings in elderly well persons and in those with life-threatening illness. Levels of self-Transcendence, as assessed by the Self-Transcendence Scale and the Purpose-in-Life Test in a sample of 152 persons (mean age = 46 years), were similar to those found in other populations. Moderate correlations with self-Transcendence and female gender; older age, and higher self-report of health status were found. Self-Transcendence was strongly correlated with sense of coherence, self-esteem, hope, and variables assessing emotional well-being.
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Self-Transcendence: A Resource for Healing at the End of Life
Issues in mental health nursing, 1996Co-Authors: Doris D. Coward, Pamela G. ReedAbstract:An emerging body of theoretical and empirical knowledge links the concepts of self-Transcendence and healing in persons facing end-of-life issues related to aging or life-threatening illness. Self-Transcendence is postulated to be a resource for healing in that reaching beyond self-boundaries may lead to a sense of well-being derived from an intensified awareness of wholeness and integration among all dimensions of one's being. This paper proposes a link between self-Transcendence and healing, based on clinical and empirical literature. Suggestions for approaches nurses may use to facilitate self-Transcendence are included.
Sonia Roccas - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Identification and Status Revisited: The Moderating Role of Self-Enhancement and Self-Transcendence Values:
Personality & social psychology bulletin, 2003Co-Authors: Sonia RoccasAbstract:Two studies examined the moderating role of the importance attributed to self-enhancement and self-Transcendence values on the association of group status with identification. In the first study, students reported their personal value priorities, their identification with a group, and their perception of the status of that group. The more importance respondents attributed to self-enhancement and the less importance to self-Transcendence, the more their identification with a group depended on the group's status. In the second study, the salience of self-enhancement and of self-Transcendence values was experimentally manipulated. Identification with a group depended more on the status of that group when self-enhancement values were salient than when self-Transcendence values were salient.
Yoona Kang - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Examining interpersonal self-Transcendence as a potential mechanism linking meditation and social outcomes.
Current opinion in psychology, 2018Co-Authors: Yoona KangAbstract:Distinct types of meditation practice addressed in this review can help cultivate skills people may bring to later social interactions. We examine self-Transcendence, or the drive to benefit others beyond the self, as a key mechanism through which meditation may promote positive social outcomes. Self-Transcendence cultivated through various styles of meditation can impact social outcomes through two main pathways: First, self-Transcendence can turn rigid, defensive self-focus into flexible and receptive self-construals. Second, it can increase positive other-focus by integrating reward and social signals in the brain. These accounts offer one practical solution of positively transforming social relations and highlight potential usefulness of considering self-Transcendence in researching social effects of meditation.
