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Heidi A. Wayment Jack J. Bauer Kateryna Sylaska
Published online: 5 July 2014 The Author(s) 2014. This article is published with open access at Springerlink.com
Abstract The quiet ego refers to a self-identity that transcends egoism and identies with a less defensive, balanced stance toward the self and others. Study 1 establishes and conrms the 14-item Quiet Ego Scale (QES) as a higher-order latent factor (capturing the theoretical intersection of four rst-order factors: detached awareness, inclusive identity, perspective taking, and growth). In studies 24 we examined the association of QES with 25 psychological constructs. Results demonstrate that QES is related to a wide range of characteristics and suggest that the QES measures an identity that strikes a balance between a strong sense of agency (but not egoism) and a strong concern for the welfare of others. Although QES was correlated with a number of related characteristics (e.g., self-compassion, self-determination, authenticity, self-transcendence), it was a distinct predictor of outcomes such as resilience, coping efcacy, and indices of well-being that could aid investigations of human happiness.
Keywords Quiet ego Self-identity Transcending self-interest Egotism Compassion
Mindfulness Humility
1 Introduction
It is probably safe to say that the conicts in this worldgeopolitically, interculturally, interpersonally, intrapersonallydo not stem from too much mindfulness, too much
H. A. Wayment (&)
Department of Psychological Sciences, Northern Arizona University, Raul Castro Building, Box 15106, Flagstaff, AZ 86011, USAe-mail: [email protected]
J. J. Bauer
Department of Psychology, University of Dayton, St. Joseph Hall, Room 329, 300 College Park, Dayton, OH 45469, USA
K. Sylaska
Department of Psychology, University of New Hampshire, Conant Hall, 10 Library Way, Durham, NH 03824, USA
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