: Values play a guiding role during an individual’s development and values are closely related to well-being. If a person focuses egocentrically on self-enhancement values, the consequence may be fluctuating happiness in forms of the alternation of transitory pleasure and afflictive effects. In constrast, if a person endorses values of self-transcendence in terms of caring for the well-being of...
As one of the foundations of existential positive psychology, self-transcendence can bring positive intrapersonal and interpersonal outcomes, especially in the COVID-19 era in which people are suffering huge mental stress. Based on Schwartz's theory of human basic values, the current study combines variable-centered and person-centered approaches to examine the relationships between...