چکیده (انگلیسی):

Personality, as a relatively stable pattern of characteristics and behaviors, may subject to
changes toward fall or transcendence during life under the influence of different factors such as changes in
beliefs. As one of the demonstrations of change in personality is manifested in an individual’s emotions,
and as ‘crying’ is one of the tools to arouse emotions, the present research aimed at studying the
relationship between personality transcendence with different reasons for crying. For this purpose, 200
individuals (120 females and 80 males) were selected among Persian Gulf University students using
multistage cluster sampling. They were requested to fill out Pakizeh Scale of Personality Transcendence
and Pakizeh Scale of Crying Reasons. The findings showed that personality transcendence is positively and
significantly predictor of crying as an indicator of mental strength and crying as an indicator of natural
emotions. It is inversely predictor of crying as an indicator of mental weakness. The results obtained from
regression analysis also showed that among aspects of personality transcendence, religious beliefs and
spiritual experiences are the best reversed predictors of crying as an indicator of mental weakness.
Spiritual beliefs and social ethics are the best direct predictors of crying as an indicator of natural emotions.
Social ethics, religious beliefs, and spiritual experiences are respectively the best direct predictors of crying
as an indicator of mental strength. The findings of the present research provided a new perspective on
personality transcendence, especially on its emotional aspect, and pave the way for new studies on
transcendence and the relationship between transcendence and emotions.