Knowra Self-transcendence (personality trait) Self-transcendence (personality trait) Self-transcendence is a personality dimension in Cloninger’s model, associated with spirituality, absorption, and a sense of connection with the wider world.
Temperament and Character Inventory : A personality questionnaire developed to measure the dimensions in Cloninger’s psychobiological model. It operationalizes self-transcendence alongside the model’s other personality dimensions.
Self-forgetfulness : A state of reduced self-consciousness in which attention is absorbed in an activity or experience. It captures the absorption facet measured within self-transcendence.
Spirituality : Personal beliefs and practices concerning meaning, sacredness, or connection with realities beyond the self. Spirituality is closely associated with self-transcendence, though the two are not identical.
Mindfulness : A mode of attention characterized by awareness of present experience with reduced automatic judgment. Mindfulness is a practice or attentional quality, not the same personality dimension.
Cloninger’s psychobiological model of personality : A personality theory that distinguishes biologically grounded temperament from character shaped through development. Self-transcendence is one of the character dimensions in this framework.
Transpersonal identification : A reported sense of identification with people, nature, or existence beyond one’s individual self. It represents the dimension’s broader-connectedness facet.
Absorption (psychology) : A personality tendency to become deeply immersed in sensory, imaginative, or experiential states. Absorption is one experiential feature associated with higher self-transcendence.
Openness to experience : A Big Five personality trait involving receptivity to imagination, ideas, aesthetics, and novelty. It overlaps in some experiences but belongs to a different personality framework.
Self-directedness : A character dimension describing responsibility, purposefulness, and the ability to regulate behavior toward chosen goals. It contrasts with self-transcendence’s emphasis on connection beyond the individual self.
Spiritual acceptance : Acceptance of spiritual or supernatural interpretations of experience and existence. It is the facet most directly linking the scale to spirituality.
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