Adolescents' Contributing toward Others

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The current study explored the interrelations between involvement in community service activities, level of expressed transpersonal commitment, and intensity of remembered positive experiences among adolescents. The Life Aspiration Questionnaire, Positive Experiences Questionnaire, and Extracurricular Activity Questionnaire were administered to 134 llth-and 12th-grade students involved in community service activities and to 126 of the adolescents' peers who were not participating in such activities. Involved adolescents were found to express higher levels of transpersonal commitment and a higher intensity of positive experiences. The two variables were found to be positively related for both involved and noninvolved adolescent groups. The results substantiated the contention that the ability to experience happiness and meaning in life was greater among those who were willing to give of themselves to others. The findings also constituted validation of the Life Aspiration Questionnaire, demonstrating the connection between word and deed in the transpersonal commitment of adolescents.

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