Self-Transcendence as a Factor of Discovery of Meaning in Activity

Student: Peresetskaya Irina

Supervisor: Evgeny N. Osin

Educational Programme: Counselling Psychology. Personality Studies (Master)

Year of Graduation: 2017

This thesis focuses on the topics of self-transcendence and meaning in activity. It explores the idea that self-transcendence as personality disposition may influence on finding meaning in activity. This theoretical idea is not new in existential psy-chology. The aim for this study to make try prove this experimentally. People were asked to fill out a form, about what meaning they find in filling out this form. After that we measure their emotions and forming internal motivation. Keywords: self-transcendence, meaning in activity, motivation

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