Self-Transcendence, Time Perspective, and Prosocial Behavior
Journal of Voluntary Action Research April 1, 1988 Robert C. Mathews, Kacey J. Kling
This study examines the hypothesis that different types of prosocial behaviors are motivated by different ways of fulfilling the need to relate to life beyond one's self. Lifton's (1973, 1976) theory of symbolic immortality is used to generate predictions concerning relations between differences in the ways individuals express this need and differences in the frequency of various types of...