Sens życia jako predyktor subiektywnej oceny zdrowia
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Data wydania
2011
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Tytuł czasopisma
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9788322620212
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Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego
Abstrakt
The articic presents the studies which can he plaeed at the borderline between the
psychology of health and an empirical existential psychology. They were inspired by the question
it the meaning of life translates into the feeling of being healthy, namely, what in psychology
is defined as a subjective health. The studies were based on a freedom and values related
theory of meaning of life, as well as a definition of health formulated on the Ottawa Card by
the WHO. Three basic notions of the freedom and values related theory of meaning of life
arc: meaning of life, personal freedom and sensitivity to values. They were defined on two
levels: psychological meaning and anthropological references. When differentiating inclining
from reference, the possibilities of making use of philosophy as a fundamental science
for psychology from which a psychologist derives assumptions in relation to the being and
human existence were taken into consideration. Meaning has a psychological dimension and
requires conceptualization, operationalisation, the method of researching and psychological
conclusions. Reference, on the other hand, is philosophical and existential in nature and thus,
it can appear in psychological studies at the stage of assumptions and results interpretation.
Anthropological assumptions of psychological studies were derived from a three-dimensional
theory of human existence in Frankl’s (19X4) perspective, who distinguishes a physical, mental
and spiritual existential dimension called by Popielski (1994) a neotie one. Assuming that
a spiritual sphere constitutes an ontological basis of a mental sphere was defined in the work
as auguercza | Latin augeo meaning to generously supply]. Referring to Frankl’s theory, the
category of augueretic notions was distinguished, that is, the ones which are ontologieally
anchored in a spiritual sphere, and arc enriched by this sphere (subject, value, sense of life),
in contrast to other categories which do not require a neotic perspective and in which it is
not definitely assumed (stress, intelligence, temper). A common dimension of augueretic notions,
that is, psychological ones with a spiritual dimension, is expressed by the fact that they
include an element of transcendence towards the absolute as a basis of inexhaustible values.
It is an ontological transcendence in a separate sphere of being. It constitutes a definitional
feature a condition sine qua non, distinguishing augueretic notions from psychological
ones. On account of searching a salutogenetie dimension of the meaning of life a variable
being a subjective life was introduced. Liach of theoretical notions was related to a questionnaire meeting llic standards of a psychological method. In order to verity a hypothesis
about an interdependence between the meaning of life and health, 168 healthy people were
examined, including 115 women and 53 men aged IX 64. The analysis ol the results showed
that a subjective independence and sensitivity to values indirectly, whereas the feeling of the
meaning of life directly, constitute positive predicators of a subjective evaluation of health
condition. A relation between sensitivity to values and a subjective evaluation of health condition
revealed in the ease of the subjects who considered their own development (a positive
dependence) and illness (a negative dependence wilh evaluation of health) as an important
and positive value in life. Summing up, one should draw a conclusion that the meaning of life
is a salutogcnetic mechanism as a predictor of a positive evaluation of health.
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W: Psychologia zdrowia: konteksty i pogranicza. (red.) Katowice: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego, 2011, s. 191-209.