Pamela Reed

Question 1

• developmental capacity of older adults and the
  necessity of Continued Development to maintain
  mental health and a sense of well being during
  the process of aging

Answer 1

Self-Transcendence Theory

Question 2

3 BASIC CONCEPTS

Answer 2

• Vulnerability
• Well-being
• Self-Transcendence

Question 3

• refers to awareness that personal or physical
  well-being is at risk. broadens the awareness of
  personal mortality

Answer 3

Vulnerability

Question 4

• is a process of maturing development
• is about expanding your sense of self in multiple
  directions.
• is the expansion of self-boundaries
  multidimensionally such as the following:
• inwardly
• outwardly
• temporally
• transpersonally

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Self-transcendence

Question 5

Self-transcendence :
(toward greater awareness of one’s own
beliefs, values, and goals through introspective
activities);

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inwardly

Question 6

Self-transcendence :
(toward others and the environment);

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outwardly

Question 7

(toward integration of past and future
in a way that enhances the relative present);

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temporally

Question 8

(to connect with dimensions
beyond the typically discernible world)

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transpersonally

Question 9

• is “the sense of feeling whole and healthy, in
  accord with one’s own criteria for wholeness and
  well-being”

Answer 9

Well-being

Question 10

Well- being as a nursing process is described in terms of
a synthesis of two kinds of change:

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1. Changes in complexity in life
2. Tempered by changes in integration

Question 11

(the increasing frailness of
advanced aging or significant events in life)

Answer 11

Changes in complexity in life

Question 12

(the organization of ideas in constructing meaning from such life events)

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Tempered by changes in integration

Question 13

Mediating-Moderating Factors

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1. Self-transcendence
2. Self-transcendence

Question 14

Mediating-Moderating Factors:
- is a mediator between vulnerability and wellbeing outcomes

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Self-transcendence

Question 15

Mediating-Moderating Factors:
- is a mechanism or process by which individuals
can experience well-being in the context of
vulnerability.

Answer 15

Self-transcendence

Question 16

4 Sets of Relationships

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1. Increased vulnerability is related to selftranscendence.
2. Self-transcendence is positively related to wellbeing.
3. Self-transcendence also may function as a
   mediator between vulnerability and well-being.
4. Personal and contextual factors may influence
   the relationship between vulnerability and self
   transcendence and between self transcendence
   and well-being