Peak experience and its varieties: Response to challenge as a valuable perspective of peak experience and its varieties

Tavel, Peter; Chrz, Vladimír; Šolcová, Iva Poláčková; Dubovská, Eva; Kalman, Michal

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“…Work autonomy represents the level of trust employees receive and a high level of work autonomy can also boost positive emotions ( Wegge et al, 2006 ). Leisure experience has been recommended as a means by which to trigger positive moods and emotions ( Tavel et al, 2022 ). Previous research has indicated that sedentary adults can experience positive emotions during leisure because leisure time physical activity environment seems highly motivational for them ( Harikkala-Laihinen et al, 2022 ).…”

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“…In other words, being able to help customers solve problems is an event that can easily trigger positive emotions for employees ( Kiffin-Petersen et al, 2012 ). Tavel et al (2022) also indicated that a person was pleased with themselves for handling a challenging situation and enjoying it. In addition, Eisenberger et al (2005) found that achievement-oriented employees are often in a high mood when facing highly skilled and challenging tasks because successfully completing these tasks can demonstrate their values, which suggests that pride is associated with a high mood.…”

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“…In addition, our research expands on the findings of Kim and Wang (2020) , which discover finding a sense of self-existence at work is one of the antecedents of PE. The connotations of pride in our research not only include this type of event but also contain other positive events that can help employees show their excellent ability, such as getting praise or appreciation from others ( Ohly and Schmitt, 2013 ), as well as being able to handle a challenging situation ( Tavel et al, 2022 ). All of these positive work events can trigger employees’ positive emotions because they are their moments of glory ( Yang et al, 2022 ).…”

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Employees’ peak experience at work: Understanding the triggers and impacts

2022

Front. Psychol.

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The importance of providing a positive employee experience (EX) has gotten a lot of attention in recent years. However, peak experience (PE), as a highly positive experience, has been studied and applied in the field of human resource management only to a very limited extent. We still know little about how employees’ peak experience (EPE) happens and what the impact will be. Therefore, based on the affective events theory and the two-factor theory, our research conducted an in-depth exploration of EPE through three studies. In Study 1, we constructed a theoretical model centered on EPE based on and interview data. In Study 2, we developed and validated a scale for measuring triggers of EPE, which is a four-dimensional scale (elevation, insight, pride, and connection) with 16 items. In Study 3, we adopted structural equation modeling (SEM) to examine the relationship between EPE and its triggers as well as its impacts using data from 424 valid questionnaires. Our research shows that elevation, insight, pride, and connection can trigger EPE; employees are more likely to have proactive behavior (PB) and word-of-mouth referrals after they have PE; and the more job-relevant the triggers are, the stronger the association between PE and PB is. Our research provides a reliable and effective measurement tool for scholars to study EPE, broadens the findings of PE and EX, and points out feasible measures for organizations to create EPE.

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2022

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“…Unlike transient peak experiences of transcendence (Maslow, 1964), whose academic study has been extensive (James, 1958; Maslow, 1962; Pahnke, 1963; Stace, 1960; Tavel et al, 2022; Yaden et al, 2017), the study of the constant spiritual “high plateau” state has been exceedingly scarce (Gruel, 2015; Hamel et al, 2003). Some of the reasons for this are the relative rarity of individuals who evince that state (referred to in this study as “spiritual exemplars”) and the difficulty in operationalizing it or even agreeing on its definition or on what constitutes its boundaries.…”

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“…Peak experiences of transcendence have been studied extensively over the last century (James, 1958;Maslow, 1962Maslow, , 1964Pahnke, 1963;Stace, 1960;Tavel et al, 2022;Taylor, 2012;Taylor & Egeto-Szabo, 2017;Yaden et al, 2017). Currently, there is agreement among scholars on many of the phenomenological characteristics of such experiences.…”

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Living transcendence: A phenomenological study of spiritual exemplars.

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The Humanistic Psychologist

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The aim of this study is to shed light on the experience of Living Transcendence, a relatively stabilized spiritual state considered in many religious traditions the pinnacle and holy grail of the search for the sacred. It explores how Living Transcendence is experienced by individuals, identified by others as spiritual exemplars having and evincing that experience. Multiple in-depth phenomenological interviews were conducted with 32 such individuals of different traditions and spiritual paths. Based on their analysis, four qualities of this experience are described: noetic (preconceptual, nondiscursive, and nonsymbolic knowing/awareness/consciousness of ultimate reality or truth), affective (supremely positive affective qualities of joy, happiness or bliss, and love), embodied (somatic and/or energetic presence or sense of a spiritual essence), and relational (a sense of connectivity or “inter-being” with everything, God, or the Whole). A characteristic of the experience of Living Transcendence is its constancy over time, amid and through the fluctuations of normal life and various crises. An additional characteristic is its association with an unusual type of volitionality, that is, the will to obey, surrender to, or be in service of a “calling.” While the presence and prominence of each of these qualities and characteristics vary between individuals, they appear to be facets of one essence. The experience of Living Transcendence appears to be constantly and consistently unitive, connective, and supremely positive, and to inextricably permeate all other experiences and contextualize them.

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Peak experience and its varieties: Response to challenge as a valuable perspective of peak experience and its varieties

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Employees’ peak experience at work: Understanding the triggers and impacts

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Living transcendence: A phenomenological study of spiritual exemplars.

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