Психология высших устремлений. мотивация и духовность личности

What Gives Meaning To Life? Of All The Aims That People Strive For, Which Ones Really Matter? Proposing That Personal Goals Are What Make Life Meaningful, Valuable, And Worth Living, This Volume Explores The Role Played By Spirituality And Religion In Investing Goals With Significance. Bringing To The Fore A Profound Aspect Of Many People's Lives That Is Often Neglected By Scientific Investigators, This Book Will Be Read With Interest By Students And Scholars Of Personality, Motivation, Health Psychology, The Psychology Of Religion, And Theology, As Well As Practitioners And Students Of Counseling And Psychotherapy. It Serves As A Unique Primary Or Supplemental Text In Graduate-level Courses.--jacket. Introduction : Motivation And Spirituality In Personality -- Personal Goals As Units Of Analysis -- Personal Goals And Subjective Well-being -- Goal Conflict And Personality Fragmentation -- Spiritual Strivings As Ultimate Concerns -- From Goal To Whole : Spiritual Strivings And Personality Integration -- Personal Goals And Life Meaning -- Spiritual Intelligence : Toward A Theory Of Personality And Spirituality. Robert A. Emmons. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 201-223) And Index. Proposing that personal goals are what give meaning to life, this volume explores the role played by spirituality and religion in investing goals with significance. The concept of ultimate concerns is developed as a scientific construct and an innovative framework is presented for their assessment and measurement. Marshaling important findings from his own and others' research, Robert A. Emmons provides compelling insights into the links between spirituality, subjective well-being, and personality integration. He demonstrates how locating religion and spirituality within accepted scientific parameters can deepen our understanding of these pervasive dimensions of human experience. Further, the book makes a powerful case for the inclusion of ultimate concerns in any attempt to build a motivational theory of personality "What gives meaning to life? Of all the aims that people strive for, which ones really matter? Proposing that personal goals are what make life meaningful, valuable, and worth living, this volume explores the role played by spirituality and religion in investing goals with significance.". "Bringing to the fore a profound aspect of many people's lives that is often neglected by scientific investigators, this book will be read with interest by students and scholars of personality, motivation, health psychology, the psychology of religion, and theology, as well as practitioners and students of counseling and psychotherapy. It serves as a unique primary or supplemental text in graduate-level courses."--BOOK JACKET. This volume makes a powerful case for the inclusion of ultimate concerns - spiritual and religious themes in personal strivings - in an attempt to build a motivational theory of personality.