{"doi":"10.31234/osf.io/ajzwv","title":"Self-transcendence as a risk and resilience factor in individuals at clinical high risk for psychosis","abstract":"AimSelf-transcendence is a personality feature and psychological resource that involves feelings of connectedness with the universe, all of humanity, and the individual self. Self-transcendence has been positively associated with both positive psychotic symptoms and clinical high risk for developing psychosis status, but studies reporting these findings focus solely on the connectedness-with-universe aspect of self-transcendence. The broader self-transcendence literature, which also includes connection with humanity and oneself, robustly supports self-transcendence as an indicator of well-being. Given this discrepancy, we sought to understand whether self-transcendence should be considered a risk or resilience factor for youth at clinical high risk.MethodsWe operationalized self-transcendence using two more holistic measures novel to the clinical high risk population. Clinical high risk participants (n=42) and healthy controls (n=44) completed the Adult Self-Transcendence Inventory and participated in narrative life interviews which were coded for self-transcendence themes. Results and DiscussionClinical high risk individuals scored lower than healthy controls on measures of self-transcendence, functioning, and life satisfaction. However, there were no group differences in the relationships between self-transcendence and measures of well-being. ConclusionOur findings suggest self-transcendence is a part of healthy personality development that may be impacted in clinical high risk individuals yet may still function as a psychological resource for this population, pointing toward new avenues for intervention in clinical high risk and other mental health populations.","journal":"Open MIND","year":2024,"id":494175,"datarank":0.0,"base_score":0.0,"endowment":0.0,"self_citation_contribution":0.0,"citation_network_contribution":0.0,"self_endowment_contribution":0.0,"citer_contribution":0.0,"corpus_percentile":null,"corpus_rank":null,"citation_count":0,"citer_count":0,"citers_with_citation_signal":0,"citers_with_endowment":0,"datacite_reuse_total":0,"is_dataset":false,"is_dataset_confidence":0.9553,"is_data_producer":false,"deposit_databanks":null,"is_oa":true,"file_count":0,"downloads":0,"has_version_chain":false,"published_date":"2024-01-01","fair_score":null,"fair_percentile":null,"algorithm_id":"datarank_citation_only_1hop_v6","ranking_scope":"data_only","authors":[{"id":478620,"name":"Henry R. Cowan","orcid":"0000-0001-9891-6903","position":1,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":1163214,"name":"Kristen Johnson","orcid":"0000-0002-1685-4348","position":2,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":249472,"name":"Vijay A. Mittal","orcid":"0000-0001-9017-5119","position":3,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":1323249,"name":"Hollen N. Reischer","orcid":"0000-0002-6538-0265","position":0,"is_corresponding":true}],"reference_count":78,"raw_metadata":{"citation_network_status":"fetched"},"created_at":"2026-07-19T02:09:07.920649Z","pmid":null,"pmcid":null,"fwci":null,"citation_percentile":null,"influential_citations":0,"oa_status":null,"license":null,"views":0,"total_file_size_bytes":0,"version_count":0,"fair_f":null,"fair_a":null,"fair_i":null,"fair_r":null,"fair_zscore":null,"fair_rationale":null,"fair_model":null,"fair_agent_version":null,"fair_fulltext_source":null,"fair_has_llm":null,"fair_computed_at":null,"clinical_trials":[],"software_tools":[],"db_accessions":[],"linked_datasets":[],"topics":[]}