The purpose was to explore the possible relations among a creative way of living, empathy, need satisfaction, and self-actualization. 20 students of an introductory psychology course completed four scales of Shostrom's Personal Orientation Inventory, the Saurt test on the creative way of living, the Mehrabian and Epstein empathy scale, and the Kalliopuska sufficiency of need satisfaction scale. Several statistically significant, low to moderate correlations suggest further work with larger samples may be worthwhile.
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