Self-transcendence facilitates meaning-making and flow: Evidence from a pilot experimental study
2016 E. Osin, A. Malyutina, N. Kosheleva
We review the psychological theory of flow and focus on the notion of the autotelic personality, arguing that self-transcendence (understood within the existential tradition of Frankl and Längle as the individual’s ability to establish inner relationships with values) can be viewed as a personality disposition conducive to flow experience. The study aimed to investigate the effects of...