Cognitive Foundations of Self-Transcendence in the Aspect of Existential Fulfillment of the Personality

Abstract

The article provides a theoretical justification for the self-transcendence and the phenomena of the cognitive sphere of personality that determine it. The results of an empirical study are presented in which the following psychological phenomena reflecting the cognitive mechanisms of personality self-transcendence were: mindfulness and its manifestations, indicators of the intellectual sphere, a tendency to curiosity and research. Self-transcendence of personality was studied in the aspect of existential fulfillment. The results showed that increasing the severity of self-transcendence in the aspect of existential fulfillment is possible with an increase in the speed of intellectual processes, an increase in intellectual activity, a decrease in sensitivity to failures in mental activity, an increase in the propensity for curiosity and exploration, and a conscious attitude towards oneself and one’s life. Study participants with a high level of existential fulfillment had more pronounced: intellectual ergicity, intellectual speed and intellectual activity, as well as a tendency towards curiosity and research, mindfulness of actions / conscious activity, non-judgmental attitude towards one’s experience, general mindfulness.