Strengthening human potential for great love‐compassion through elaborative development

Abstract

Split conceptions of humanity reflect commitment to a part of humanity and may be instantiated by war, genocide, racism, or even ordinary love and compassion. The embeddedness of all living entities makes them open systems that are integrally fused. Thus, commitment to a part will arguably compromise the healthy functioning of the whole. This chapter begins to elucidate the dynamic developmental processes involved in commitment to the whole of humanity, as instantiated by Great Love-Compassion (GLC). A nonrecursive structural model hypothesized relationships among adaptive developmental regulations, elaborative development, and GLC. The present study aimed to validate the hypothesized relationship between elaborative development and GLC at a single time point. Quantitative data from the John Templeton Foundation (JTF)–sponsored study of “The Role of Spiritual Development in Growth of Purpose, Generosity, and Psychological Health in Adolescence” were used to assess this hypothesized link within an ethnically and religiously diverse sample of youth. Findings provided evidence of the expected covariation.

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