Highest Happiness

Descriptions of peak experiences collected from 29 exhibiting artists were compared with parallel data from a comparison group of 123 men and women enrolled in university courses in social sciences. Each person narratively described a personal incident of highest happiness, then rated a series of descriptions on Likert-type scales. A multivariate analysis of variance indicated no significant differences in the two groups' descriptions of peak experience, and subsequent t tests showed no significant differences on any item. Responses from both groups provide a constellation of experiential correlates of the peak experience consistent with major theoretical descriptions of subjective characteristics of the event. Demographic differences between the groups, triggers, and experiential characteristics of peak experiences were examined. Differences on demographic variables and triggers and the absence of significant differences in the descriptions of peak experience suggest one approach that would bolster Maslow's position of the universality of the peak experience

Developmental psychology · Experiential learning · Happiness · Likert scale · Maslow's hierarchy of needs · Mathematics education · Multivariate analysis of variance · Statistics · Creativity in Education and Neuroscience · Mathematics · Psychology · Social and Cultural Dynamics · Social Psychology · Sport Psychology and Performance

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