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Self-transcendence (concept of our participation in the world as a whole) is one of the three aspects of human character in Cloninger’s biopsychosociospiritual model of personality (Cloninger et al. 1993). This character trait is a measure of how well people identify themselves as an integral part of the universe as a whole and their experience of something elevated that goes beyond ourselves, that is, self-forgetfulness, transpersonal identification, spiritual acceptance, contemplation, idealism (Cloninger 2004).
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Self-transcendence represents the judicial branch of mental self-government or the ability to know when rules apply to a particular situation. Self-transcendent people are described as self-forgetful (intuitive and light), transpersonal (holistic and joyful), and spiritual in perspective, whereas those who are low in self-transcendence are self-striving (controlling), individualistic (defensive), and secular...
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Garcia, D., Rosenberg, P., Lester, N., Cloninger, K.M., Robert Cloninger, C. (2017). Self-Transcendence. In: Zeigler-Hill, V., Shackelford, T. (eds) Encyclopedia of Personality and Individual Differences. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-28099-8_2269-1
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