AI Article Synopsis
- Spirituality has typically been viewed in psychology as a response to negative experiences, aiding individuals in overcoming adversity.
- This research explores how spirituality can also be influenced by positive emotions that stem from recognizing beauty and goodness in life, specifically through feelings like elevation and admiration.
- Findings indicate that self-transcendent emotions enhance spirituality, particularly among non-religious individuals, with beliefs about life’s meaning and the goodness of others playing key roles in this relationship.
Article Abstract
Spirituality has mostly been studied in psychology as implied in the process of overcoming adversity, being triggered by negative experiences, and providing positive outcomes. By reversing this pathway, we investigated whether spirituality may also be triggered by self-transcendent positive emotions, which are elicited by stimuli appraised as demonstrating higher good and beauty. In two studies, elevation and/or admiration were induced using different methods. These emotions were compared to two control groups, a neutral state and a positive emotion (mirth). Self-transcendent positive emotions increased participants' spirituality (Studies 1 and 2), especially for the non-religious participants (Study 1). Two basic world assumptions, i.e., belief in life as meaningful (Study 1) and in the benevolence of others and the world (Study 2) mediated the effect of these emotions on spirituality. Spirituality should be understood not only as a coping strategy, but also as an upward spiralling pathway to and from self-transcendent positive emotions.
Download full-text PDF |
Source |
|---|---|
| http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02699931.2013.787395 | DOI Listing |
Publication Analysis
Top Keywords
Similar Publications
Developing positive design with innovative thinking framework: A design pedagogical approach to enhance subjective well-being.
Heliyon
December 2024
School of Creativity and Art, Shanghai Tech University, Shanghai, China.
Design thinking is the foundation of professional design education, and the shift from zero to professional design skill involves the completion of the transition from single-mindedness to independent and innovative thinking. In this exploratory study on design teaching, we build a novel teaching model by drawing on the connection between students' self-transcendent knowledge and formal knowledge in design thinking. Based on the Design for Happiness framework (DfH), this study uses Positive Emotional Granularity cards (PEG) to stimulate students to identify and categorize various positive emotions.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe Big, the Dark, and the Biopsychosocial Shades of Harmony: Personality Traits and Harmony in Life.
Behav Sci (Basel)
September 2024
Department of Social Sciences, University of Stavanger, 4021 Stavanger, Norway.
Article Synopsis
- Current research on personality traits and subjective well-being mainly focuses on life satisfaction and positive emotions, overlooking deeper concepts like harmony and balance found in different cultures.
- The study examined how different personality models (Big Five, Dark Triad, and Biopsychosocial Model) predict life harmony, finding that the Biopsychosocial Model explained the most variance in harmony compared to the other models.
- Key traits influencing life harmony included Self-Directedness and Self-Transcendence from the Biopsychosocial Model, and Agreeableness and Neuroticism from the Big Five, highlighting the need for a broader view of well-being that includes harmony.
Effects of matching climate change appeals to personal values.
Sci Rep
March 2024
Department of Psychology, Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz, Binger Str. 14-16, 55122, Mainz, Germany.
The stronger people hold self-enhancing (that is, egoistic or hedonic) values, the less they tend agree with pro-environmental efforts. An exploratory (N = 901) and a confirmatory study (N = 404) examined the effectiveness of pro-environmental messages matched to individuals' values. Findings indicate that strong endorsement of self-transcendent (that is, altruistic or biospheric) values is associated with unspecific endorsement of pro-environmental messages, while individuals endorsing self-enhancement values respond positively only to value-matched appeals.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFFacilitative effect of awe on cooperation: The role of the small-self and self-other inclusion.
Psych J
August 2024
College of Psychology, Shanghai Normal University, Shanghai, China.
Awe has been theorized as a kind of self-transcendence emotion that has an important impact on individual social behavior. Based on the self-transcendence of awe, this study examined how awe can increase small-self and self-other inclusion to facilitate cooperation among individuals across three studies (N = 1162). First, the relationship between awe, cooperative propensity, and the mediating role of small-self and self-other inclusion in the relationship was examined using questionnaires on trait levels (Study 1).
View Article and Find Full Text PDFSeeing awe: How children perceive awe-inspiring visual experiences.
Child Dev
July 2024
Department of Psychology, The University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
Awe is a profound, self-transcendent emotion. To illuminate its origin, four preregistered studies examined how U.S.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFWant AI Summaries of new PubMed Abstracts delivered to your In-box?
Enter search terms and have AI summaries delivered each week - change queries or unsubscribe any time!