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Three important concepts form the core of Reed’s theory, including self-transcendence; the other two concepts are: Vulnerability: the awareness of one’s own mortality that develops with age, health issues, and crises. Well-being: the sense of being healthy, whole, and generally fulfilled and satisfied with one’s state.
Reed's Self-Transcendence Scale (STS) emphasizes developmentally-based strengths rather than decremental characteristics of individuals across the lifespan from adolescence to later life. The (STS) measures a major psychosocial/spiritual resource of developmental maturity, self-transcendence.
Oct 19, 2018 · Self-transcendence is a human capacity to expand personal boundaries in many ways, for example, intrapersonally, interpersonally, and transpersonally to connect within self, with others and nature, and with purposes or dimensions regarded as larger than or beyond the self.
Apr 18, 2023 · Pamela Reed’s Self Transcendence Theory Reed (1991) defines self-transcendence as “expansion of self-conceptual boundaries multidimensionally: inwardly (e.g., through introspective experiences), outwardly (e.g., by reaching out to others), and temporally (whereby past and future are integrated into the present).”
Mar 12, 2021 · According to Reed’s (e.g., [1–3]) nursing theory of self-transcendence, the concept of self-transcendence refers to perspectives and behaviors that expand (transcend) self-boundaries in multiple ways that are described, for example, inwardly (through intrapersonal activities and perspectives that enhance awareness of one’s ...
Pamela G. Reed (born 1949), who developed the theory of self-transcendence and defined it as an expansion of self-boundaries that results in a broader life perspective and enhanced wellbeing. Reed’s theory identified four dimensions of expanding self-boundaries: intrapersonal, interpersonal, temporal, and transpersonal.
May 1, 2020 · Background and purpose: Reed's theory of self-transcendence is a nursing theory originally derived from inquiry on well-being in older adults. It has since become a viable theory for promoting well-being in all age groups and health/illness experiences.
