- PII
- S0205-95920000520-9-1
- DOI
- 10.7868/S20000520-9-1
- Publication type
- Article
- Status
- Published
- Authors
- Abstract
- In article the results of long-term research of a problem of meaning of life are summed up. Special relevance of this problem in the conditions of modern society is emphasized: the orientation of human activity, reasonable management of it becomes an indispensable condition of a survival of the person on Earth, and the meaning of life is the concentrated expression of this orientation. The meaning of life is presented as the special mental education which is characterized by a certain substationality and causing relative emansipation of the subject from direct influences. The main characteristics of meaning of life are considered: its ambivalence, adequacy and constructibility. The hierarchical structure of a phenomenon of meaning of life and process of “monolitnization” of sense as manifestations of its inadequacy are described. Results of a pilot study of the integrating function of meaning of life are stated, the characteristic of a phenomenon “Me existential” as highest level of personal integration is given. Features of influence the meaning-of-life's orientations to identity formation, including professional formation, are experimentally shown. The psychological characteristic of a phenomenon “the valuable and semantic relation to family life” as the factor promoting formation of the harmonious relations in a family is submitted. Some perspective lines of further research of a problem of meaning of life are in summary outlined.
- Keywords
- Orientation of internal activity of the person, meaning of life, adequacy and counterefficiency of meaning of life, structural hierarchy, sense monolitnization, identity, creativity, reflection, valuable and semantic relation to family life, vital space of the personality
- Date of publication
- 03.01.2015
- Year of publication
- 2015
- Number of purchasers
- 1
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- 530
RAS Social ScienceПсихологический журнал Psikhologicheskii zhurnal
- ISSN (Print) 0205-9592
- ISSN (Online) 3034-588X
THE MEANING OF LIFE: RESULTS AND PERSPECTIVES OF RESEARCH
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