The sense of life as a subjective spiritual human experience : empirical study

• Authors: Ewa Ryś
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

Man’s spirituality is part of individual inner experience e.g. awareness of making one’s own choices, subjectivity, aspirations, preferred values and their criteria, open-mindedness towards oneself and others, readiness to contradict evil, and striving to realize the purpose of life. The multifaceted construct of SoL embraces: 1) life affirmation, 2) self-acceptance, 3) goal awareness, 4) sense of freedom, 5) valuation of future, and 6) attitude towards death. The objective of my empirical research was to determine the intensity of SoL among students of pedagogy and to establish which components of meaning of life co-condition the level of SoL intensity. Test group : a representative group of pedagogy students at the University of Szczecin: 683 people. The designed SoL test is based on the PIL (Purpose in Life) format- Crumbaugh-Maholick Purpose-in-Life Test. The results of research prove empirical theses stated on the grounds of logotheory and logotherapy (e.g. about the significance of the attitude towards death for the attitude towards life, and the sense of freedom as a mechanism facilitating transcendence).

Keywords

EN

spirituality; sense of meaning in life; logotheory

Discipline

• PSYCHOLOGY: PSYCHOLOGY

• Publisher: Czech-Moravian Psychological Society, Czech Republic
• Journal: E-psychologie (E-psychology)
• Year: 2008
• Volume: 2
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 12-24
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Ewa Ryś

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