Engagement in a Community-Based Integral Practice Program Enhances Well-being

Smartphone Time Machine: Tech-Supported Improvements in Time Perspective and Wellbeing Measures

“…Scores on given days were selected instead of change scores because for mediation analysis to suggest a causal relationship, the treatment and the mediator should be measured prior to the outcome variable, and change scores required measurement on the first assessment day (day 2). Unconditional love was selected as the mediating variable because it showed a clear relationship with overall wellbeing scores (see above), and prior research indicated that self-transcendent emotions can mediate wellbeing ( Vieten et al, 2014 ). Starting with scores on the third assessment (following the required portion of the study), there was no mediation by the unconditional love measure for the model with physical symptoms of stress measure as the treatment (average causal mediation effect [ACME] p > 0.929 for PSS on third assessment), but for the model with the dBTP measure as the treatment, there was significant partial mediation by the unconditional love measure (ACME 95% CI −0.055, −0.120; p < 0.005, est.…”

“…To our knowledge, this is one of only three existing studies that uses a clearly defined description of unconditional love to assess feelings of unconditional love over time ( Mossbridge et al, 2018 , 2021 ), and the first study to show mediation of any effect by feelings of unconditional love. We were motivated to check for the mediation effect based on a previous study in which feelings of self-transcendence mediated the relationship between participation in a community-based wellbeing program and psychological wellbeing outcomes ( Vieten et al, 2014 ). Self-transcendence in that study was defined as “a term used to describe (a) a desire to discover meaning in human life, (b) a growing spirituality involving both an expansion of boundaries and an increased appreciation of the present, or (c) a developmental process that forms a pathway to wisdom” ( Vieten et al, 2014 , p. 5, references removed).…”

“…We were motivated to check for the mediation effect based on a previous study in which feelings of self-transcendence mediated the relationship between participation in a community-based wellbeing program and psychological wellbeing outcomes ( Vieten et al, 2014 ). Self-transcendence in that study was defined as “a term used to describe (a) a desire to discover meaning in human life, (b) a growing spirituality involving both an expansion of boundaries and an increased appreciation of the present, or (c) a developmental process that forms a pathway to wisdom” ( Vieten et al, 2014 , p. 5, references removed). We noted the similarity between their definition of self-transcendence and our own definition of unconditional love as presented to the participants, which included a reference to everything that exists reaching its greatest possible fulfillment, a concept consistent with self-transcendence (see Methods for definition).…”

Adaptación y validación del inventario de autotrascendencia para adultos en el contexto argentino

“…La Asti distingue dos facetas: 1) autotrascendencia; y 2) alienación, presentando en su construcción original una consistencia interna aceptable tanto para el primer factor (α = 0,75) como para el segundo (α = 0,64). El inventario ha sido empleado en distintos países como Alemania (Koller, Levenson, (Ireland, 2013), Austria (Glück et al, 2013;Koller et al, 2017;Konig y Gluck, 2014;König y Glück, 2013), Canadá (Beaumont, 2009;Ireland, 2013), Corea (Lee, Choun, Aldwin, y Levenson, 2015), Eslovaquia (Roháriková, Špajdel, Cviková, y Jagla, 2013), Estados Unidos (Ai, Wink, Gall, Dillon, y Tice, 2017;Choi y Landeros, 2011;Greene, Britton, y Shepherd, 2016;Jennings, Aldwin, Levenson, Spiro, y Mroczek, 2006;Le, 2011;Le y Levenson, 2005;Morledge et al, 2013;Vieten et al, 2014), Francia (Michael Dambrun, 2017; Michaël Dambrun y Ricard, 2012), Reino Unido (Ireland, 2013), y en población coreana (Kim y Knight, 2015) y vietnamita (Le, 2008) residente en los Estados Unidos. Para la construcción de la técnica, Levenson et al, (2005) retoman la noción de Tornstam (1994) de gerotrascendencia, relativa al desarrollo de la autotrascendencia hacia el final de la vida.…”

The Grateful Aging Program: A Naturalistic Model of Transformation andHealing into the Second Half of Life

“…There are personal and social benefits as we experience the shift in focus from I to we. 29,33 In other words, the practice of Grateful Aging infuses our lives with the wish for, and active actions that speak to, the transformation of our community. Compassion and altruism emerge from our shared experiences rather than from duty or obligation.…”