Role Of Humility Research Articles

Humility in medical practice: a qualitative study of peer-nominated excellent clinicians

BackgroundHumility has recently been conceptualized as a positive, multifaceted attribute in fields outside of medicine, such as psychology and philosophy. In medicine, there has been limited study into the nature of humility and its role in clinical practice. We sought to develop a deeper understanding of humility in medical practice through the lived-experiences of peer-nominated excellent clinicians.MethodsWe conducted a qualitative study with secondary analysis of transcripts from individual open ended, semi-structured interviews of 13 peer nominated physicians [7 (54%) female] at an academic centre. Using constant comparative analysis, the transcripts were analyzed for instances where humility was discussed as it related to clinical practice.ResultsParticipants perceived humility to be an important driver for excellence in clinical practice. This was further explained using two overarching themes: an inward, intellectual perspective and an outward, social perspective. The physician’s inward perspective was their view of their abilities and limits, their self-confidence, and their intellectual openness and adaptability to the limitations and evolving nature of knowledge in medicine. Their outward perspective was an understanding and appreciation for the larger system in which they worked, an openness to others, and valuing patients’ experience. Through these perspectives, humility positively influenced clinical care, learning and curiosity, motivation in the care of others, and relationships with team members and patients.ConclusionsHumility in medicine is a rich, multifaceted construct that was perceived to be a driver for excellence in medical practice by peer-nominated excellent clinicians. Humility was seen as an active force in formulating and calibrating a clinician’s perspective of self and of others, and as such, positively influencing clinical practice. These findings will help inform a discourse in medical education and faculty development about the important role of humility in medical practice.

No Benefits for Paradox Personalities? Narcissism and Humility in New Work Careers

Remarkable contributions have already been made to narcissism and its particular influence on career success, yet the literature to date does not capture the potential impact of paradoxical personalities, especially when considering the role of humility as a complement to a multifaceted constellation of characters. This gap finds additional relevance in light of recent changes in today’s world of work in terms of flexibility and complexity. Therefore, our study examines the relationship between narcissism and humility with objective and subjective career success in new work settings. The research is based on dyadic data from 398 cross-industry U.S. professionals in 199 pairs. Hypotheses are tested using hierarchical moderated multiple and logistic regression analyses. As expected, the interaction between narcissism and humility showed negative effects on a leadership position, project responsibility, and salary. Considering new ways of working in a three-way interaction with narcissism and humility, the effect turned positive for salary. Thus, in the new world of work, the humble narcissist is successful in material terms. Surprisingly, no relations to subjective career success were evident. Our findings contribute to the literature on new ways of working, career success, and paradox personalities by showing that although humble narcissists may generally experience lower levels of career success, they rather succeed in new working environments.

How can successful people share their goodness with the world: The psychological mechanism underlying the upper social classes’ redistributive preferences and the role of humility

How can successful people share their goodness with the world: The psychological mechanism underlying the upper social classes’ redistributive preferences and the role of humility

Humility in Seminary Student Formation: A Mixed Method Community Action Study

This cross-sectional mixed method community action study exploring the virtue of humility was conducted as part of a collaborative practical theology project at a pluralistic, ecumenical Mainline Protestant seminary. Students ( N = 65) in a spiritual formation graduate class completed quantitative measures of humility, spiritual well-being, differentiation of self (DoS), mentalization, and mindfulness, while open-ended qualitative data captured their perspectives about the role of humility in formation. Qualitative results revealed important nuances about emerging religious leaders’ views on humility, including experiencing this virtue as (a) facilitative to their vocational growth (e.g., promoting learning, self-understanding, relational connections, and deeper spirituality), (b) challenging (e.g., self-deprecating, unnecessary, and contrary to ministry), or (c) some combination of both. Quantitative results documented positive associations between relational capacities (e.g., DoS, mentalization) and humility, and these links were mediated by mindful awareness. Implications for measuring and promoting holistic spiritual development among emerging religious leaders are discussed.

Cultivating humility

ABSTRACT This article focuses on the role of humility in the law school. It argues in favour of a culture where humility is consciously cultivated in law students. Section I considers the grading curve, a quintessentially North American attribute of almost all law schools. It analyses and theorises the curve and its effect in cultivating humility. It suggests that, while the curve can have a humbling effect, this effect is felt irregularly among law students and comes with significant and often discounted consequences. This article argues that a model where humility is more consciously cultivated could minimise these consequences. Section II provides such an alternative, arguing in favour of law professors showing humility and vulnerability. It depicts this alternative as both a partial antidote to the grading curve’s problems and a key starting point in inviting students to be vulnerable and constitutively challenging what it means to be a lawyer.

Do Moral Communicators Make Better Listeners? Personality, Virtue and Receiver Apprehension as Predictors of Active Empathetic-Listening

ABSTRACT As personality, apprehension, and personal virtue can influence interpersonal communication, the research question in this project was the degree each play in accounting for active empathetic listening. Participants completed self-report surveys to explore the predictive potential of communicator personality, receiver apprehension, and virtue on active-empathetic listening (AEL). Regression analyses indicated that virtue and receiver apprehension accounted for more variance in AEL than personality factors. Faithfulness – a virtue indicating relational commitment to one’s conversational partner – proved the strongest predictor even though self-control, humility, work, and wisdom correlated positively with AEL and most listening stages (sensing, processing, and responding). Discussion explores the role of humility in being ‘other-wise,’ what constitutes a faithful listener, and the potential of empathic-altruism in one’s moral identity as key to understanding listening well.

Otwartym głosem. O terapeutycznych aspektach śpiewu tradycyjnego.

<p>W artykule omówiono wybrane aspekty terapeutyczne śpiewu tradycyjnego<br />(otwartego, naturalnego, archaicznego). poruszono kwestie związku muzyki ze stanem psychofizycznym człowieka, a także rolę oddechu i bycia tu i teraz w regulowaniu stanów emocjonalnych. zwrócono uwagę na leczący wymiar relacji mistrz – uczeń, na naukę funkcjonowania w zdrowej zależności oraz na rolę pokory i wspólnoty. podkreślono, iż muzyka<br />tradycyjna i śpiew tradycyjny mogą stać się przestrzenią do zbierania istotnych doświadczeń terapeutycznych.</p>

Wisdom Through Adversity: The Potential Role of Humility

Wisdom Through Adversity: The Potential Role of Humility

Humility in Servant Leadership among Christian Student Leaders: A Longitudinal Pilot Study

The goal of the current research was to examine potential predictors and outcomes of servant leadership among beginning leaders with self-reported and other-reported data. Participants included 29 college student leaders within the Residence Life program of a Christian university who were assessed prior to beginning their leadership positions and six weeks into their leadership roles. Those who responded to the challenges of early leadership with greater interpersonal and intellectual humility displayed more servant leadership and associated characteristics over time. Specifically, variance in humility during the transition into leadership was predictive of more servant leadership, empathic concern, perspective-taking, and kindness toward subordinates six weeks later. These findings offer initial empirical evidence to support the vaster theoretical basis regarding the role of humility in servant leadership. In addition, variance in salience of religious belief during the transition into leadership predicted more interpersonal humility, servant leadership, and kindness to subordinates. This is particularly remarkable given the high levels of religiosity displayed within the sample from the start of the study. This indicates that leaders integrating religion into their lives to a greater extent predicts leader outcomes more so than do religious identification or initial levels of religiosity.

The Role of Humility and Gender in the Effectiveness of Self- Promotion in Organizational Settings

Little is known about the mediators of impression management and supervisor evaluation relationships (Bolino, Long, & Turnley, 2016). Utilizing two organizational samples of employee-supervisor dya...

The Role of Humility in Exercising Practical Wisdom

Practical wisdom provides a powerful paradigm for understanding legal reasoning and adjudication. One of the primary insights of practical wisdom is that it recognizes a role for character as well as intellect in deliberation. Intellect alone may suffice to make one clever, enabling one to figure out how to achieve one's ends. As Aristotle notes, however, if the ends are wrong, cleverness may facilitate mere villainy. Virtue of character, together with experience, transforms cleverness into practical wisdom. Kronman's account of the virtues of character necessary for exercising practical wisdom -- sympathy (or mercy) and detachment (or justice) -- is helpful but incomplete. The (or at least a) missing ingredient is humility. Humility helps one to become more just and more merciful. It also aids deliberation and choice by one who is just and merciful, one who is trying to determine the appropriate course of action in a particular situation. For these reasons, humility is a virtue of character that we should especially seek and value in judges.

Smoke, wind, and that journey upwards: Augustinian reflections on the role of humility in virtue formation

Augustine’s training in pagan rhetoric, his classical education, and the productive tensions he experienced between pagan and Christian exemplars played a formative role in his spiritual journey. An examination of the generative aspects of these encounters with otherness yields insights for our own understanding, not just of the importance to ethical formation of loyalty to community and tradition, but also of reason-giving practices that extend across communities—practices that thrive when cultivated with Augustinian humility. Turning to Augustine can help us transcend the divide between traditionalist defenders of “character education” and liberal defenders of critical reflection and autonomy.

Veritatem humiliter investigare. Sul ruolo dell’umiltà in Enrico di Gand

Humility was perceived in the Christian Middle Ages as a fundamental moral and intellectual quality, opening the way for access to the divine. How this access occurred, and for what kind of people, was dependent on different theological and philosophical presuppositions. The role of humility was thus moulded according to different anthropological and noetical models. By the end of the 13th century, the «question de l’humilité», as Alain de Libera posed it, had also become a locus for confrontation and definition between different intellectual identities. This study focuses on the role that the secular master Henry of Ghent (ca. 1217-1293) assigned to humility for approaching and transmitting divine truth, both from the perspective of the single individual and of the Christian community. Some topical categories describing essential features of humility – low/high, the ladder, interior/exterior, empty/full – aid in the analysis of some passages from the works of this theologian.

Recovery and the Role of Humility: Insights from a Case Study Analysis

When the individuals comprising a profession are focused more on competition rather than service to others, and when holding a significant place on the world stage is held in higher esteem than meaningful collaboration with the disempowered, is it possible to be truly consumer-centred? This article considers the notion of humility in the context of recovery and the challenges to the effective implementation of recovery-oriented services that have been identified. Insights are drawn from a case study analysis of the implementation of recovery approaches to health care into a publicly-funded mental health service located in Australia. While challenges to the operationalization of recovery are complex, we argue that the professional quality of humility provides an important means by which genuine and meaningful collaboration can be achieved among health professionals, consumers, carers, and other stakeholders.

Understanding Humility and Its Role in Relational Therapy

Humility is a character trait and virtue that has received scant attention in psychotherapy literature. A panel of experts was assembled to confer on their beliefs about humility for this Delphi study. They responded to a proposed definition of humility and provided a variety of statements regarding the role of humility in client change and relational therapy in general. The results suggest that key elements of change that occur during the process of relational therapy (including certain “common factors”) seem to be related to humility. Also, humility’s unique relationship to self and other suggests it is often at work in relational change. The authors propose further exploration of humility and its role as a pre-cursor to client change efforts. Humility’s role in the Transtheoretical Model of Change is hypothesized and future directions for theory and research are suggested.

Humility: A consistent and robust predictor of generosity

Does humility predict generous motives and behaviors? Although earlier studies have suggested a positive connection, it has remained unclear whether another trait might better account for the humility/generosity link. Three studies examined associations between a self-report measure of humility, related traits, and generosity. In Study 1 (197 adults in a community sample), humility predicted greater generosity on two behavioral measures: Charitable donations and mailing back an extra survey. In Study 2 (286 undergraduates), humility predicted giving more money to an anonymous future participant. In Study 3 (217 undergraduates), humility was associated with greater self-reported motives to be kind to others, including benefactors, close others, strangers, and enemies. Across all three studies, the role of humility was not better explained by the Big Five, self-esteem, entitlement, religiosity, gratitude, or social desirability. These studies complement prior work by demonstrating that the link between humility and generosity is both consistent and robust.

The Role of Humility and Intrinsic Goods in Preserving Endangered Species

The Role of Humility and Intrinsic Goods in Preserving Endangered Species