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Self-Transcendence as a Buffer Against COVID-19 Suffering : The Development and Validation of the Self-Transcendence Measure-B
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- Wong, Paul T.P. (author)
- Trent University
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- Arslan, Gökmen (author)
- University of Melbourne,Burdur Mehmet Akif Ersoy University
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- Bowers, Victoria L. (author)
- Saybrook University
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- Peacock, Edward J. (author)
- No affiliation available (private)
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- Kjell, Oscar Nils Erik (author)
- Lund University,Lunds universitet,Institutionen för psykologi,Samhällsvetenskapliga institutioner och centrumbildningar,Samhällsvetenskapliga fakulteten,Department of Psychology,Departments of Administrative, Economic and Social Sciences,Faculty of Social Sciences
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- Ivtzan, Itai (author)
- Naropa University
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- Lomas, Tim (author)
- University of East London
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- 2021-10-06
- 2021
- English.
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In: Frontiers in Psychology. - : Frontiers Media SA. - 1664-1078. ; 12
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Abstract
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- The age of COVID-19 calls for a different approach toward global well-being and flourishing through the transcendence suffering as advocated by existential positive psychology. In the present study, we primarily explained what self-transcendence is and why it represents the most promising path for human beings to flourish through the transformation of suffering in a difficult and uncertain world. After reviewing the literature on self-transcendence experiences, we concluded that the model of self-transcendence presented by Frankl is able to integrate both of the characteristics associated with self-transcendence. Afterward, we discussed how the self-transcendence paradigm proposed by Wong, an extension of the model by Frankl, may help awaken our innate capacity for connections with the true self, with others, and with God or something larger than oneself. We presented self-transcendence as a less-traveled but more promising route to achieve personal growth and mental health in troubled times. Finally, we presented the history of the development and psychometrics of the Self-Transcendence Measure-Brief (STM-B) and reported the empirical evidence that self-transcendence served as a buffer against COVID-19 suffering. The presented data in the current study suggested that the best way to overcome pandemic suffering and mental health crises is to cultivate self-transcendence.
Subject headings
- SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP -- Psykologi (hsv//swe)
- SOCIAL SCIENCES -- Psychology (hsv//eng)
Keyword
- COVID-19
- existential positive psychology (PP2.0)
- existential psychology
- mature happiness
- meaning
- positive psychology
- self-transcendence
- wellbeing
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- art (subject category)
- ref (subject category)
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