EDITORIAL
Year : 2013 | Volume
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What makes people healthy, happy, and fulfilled in the face of current world challenges?
C Robert Cloninger
MD, PhD. Department of Psychiatry, Campus Box 8134, Washington University School of Medicine, 660 South Euclid Avenue, St. Louis, MO 63110, USA
Correspondence Address:
C Robert Cloninger
Department of Psychiatry, Campus Box 8134, Washington University School of Medicine, 660 South Euclid Avenue, St. Louis, MO 6311
USA
 Source of Support: None, Conflict of Interest: None  | Check |
DOI: 10.4103/0973-1229.109288
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Recent research on the relations of personality to well-being shows that the people who are most healthy, happy and fulfilled are those who are high in all three of the character traits of self-directedness, cooperativeness, and self-transcendence as measured by the Temperament and Character Inventory. In the past, the healthy personality has often been considered to require only high self-directedness and high cooperativeness. However, now the self-centred behaviour of people who are low in self-transcendence is degrading the conditions needed for sustainable life by all human beings. Consequently, human beings need to and can develop their capacity for self-transcendence in order to maintain their individual and collective well-being. |
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