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Ego and Spiritual Transcendence : Relevance to Psychological Resilience and the Role of Age
Author
Source
Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine
Issue
Vol. 2013, Issue 2013 (31 Dec. 2013), pp.1-9, 9 p.
Publisher
Hindawi Publishing Corporation
Publication Date
2013-10-09
Country of Publication
Egypt
No. of Pages
9
Main Subjects
Abstract EN
The paper investigates different approaches of transcendence in the sense of spiritual experience as predictors for general psychological resilience.
This issue is based on the theoretical assumption that resilience does play a role for physical health.
Furthermore, there is a lack of empirical evidence about the extent to which spirituality does play a role for resilience.
As potential predictors for resilience, ego transcendence, spiritual transcendence, and meaning in life were measured in a sample of 265 people.
The main result of a multiple regression analysis is that, in the subsample with people below 29 years, only one rather secular scale that is associated with ego transcendence predicts resilience, whereas for the older subsample of 29 years and above, spiritual transcendence gains both a positive (oneness and timelessness) and a negative (spiritual insight) relevance to psychological resilience.
On the one hand, these results concur with previous studies that also found age-related differences.
On the other hand, it is surprising that the MOS spiritual insight predicts psychological resilience negatively, the effect is increasing with age.
One possible explanation concerns wisdom research.
Here, an adaptive way of dealing with the age-related loss of control is assumed to be relevant to successful aging.
American Psychological Association (APA)
Hanfstingl, Barbara. 2013. Ego and Spiritual Transcendence : Relevance to Psychological Resilience and the Role of Age. Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine،Vol. 2013, no. 2013, pp.1-9.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-510689
Modern Language Association (MLA)
Hanfstingl, Barbara. Ego and Spiritual Transcendence : Relevance to Psychological Resilience and the Role of Age. Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine No. 2013 (2013), pp.1-9.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-510689
American Medical Association (AMA)
Hanfstingl, Barbara. Ego and Spiritual Transcendence : Relevance to Psychological Resilience and the Role of Age. Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine. 2013. Vol. 2013, no. 2013, pp.1-9.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-510689
Data Type
Journal Articles
Language
English
Notes
Includes bibliographical references
Record ID
BIM-510689