Psychological development continues throughout adulthood, with some individuals reaching advanced levels of adult psychological development. A focus of the present study was to investigate the Buddhist construct of nonattachment in relation to three elements of advanced psychological development: wisdom, self-actualisation and self-transcendence. The possibility that nonattachment mediates the relationship of mindfulness to these aspects of optimal psychological development was also investigated. Results from 348 university students supported expectations that nonattachment was positively related to wisdom, self-actualisation and self-transcendence and confirmed similar positive relationships for mindfulness. In addition, nonattachment was found to act as a partial mediator of mindfulness for all three aspects of advanced adult psychological development. Interestingly, an alternate mediational pathway was discovered as mindfulness was shown to mediate the relationship of nonattachment to measures of advanced psychological development. The results have implications for understanding the different pathways towards developing wisdom, self-actualisation and self-transcendence and provide insight into the possible mechanisms of mindfulness and nonattachment that help to explain their positive impact.

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放手成长：不依恋和正念是高级心理发展的特质

心理发展持续到整个成年期，有些人达到了成人心理发展的高级水平。本研究的重点是研究与高级心理发展的三个要素有关的佛教非依恋结构：智慧，自我实现和自我超越。还研究了非依恋介导正念与最佳心理发展的这些方面之间的关系的可能性。348名大学生的研究结果支持了这样的期望：不依恋与智慧，自我实现和自我超越正相关，并证实正念具有相似的正向关系。此外，发现不依恋是高级成人心理发展的所有三个方面的正念的部分中介。有趣的是，发现了一种替代的中介途径，因为正念被证明可以介导不依恋与高级心理发展测度的关系。这些结果对于理解发展智慧，自我实现和自我超越的不同途径具有启示意义，并有助于洞悉正念和不依恋的可能机制，从而有助于解释其积极影响。