Growing by Letting Go: Nonattachment and Mindfulness as Qualities of Advanced Psychological Development

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...