Inquiry into the meaning of life goes back to antiquity from Lao Tzu (trans. 1913) to King Solomon (Ecclesiastes, New International Version). Th ere is also a long and venerable tradition in psychology of exploring the meaning of human existence (Adler, 1931/1958; Frankl, 1963/1985; James, 1902; Jung, 1933; May, 1958) and self-actualization (Maslow, 1962; Rogers, 1980). However, empirical studi...

The nursing students' main quest is for self actualization by attributing meaning to life through caring. To assist student nurses in this quest, the nurse educator needs to plan educational interventions according to an anthropological model that posits care and caring as innate human attributes. Further, the structural essence of what professional nursing caring entails should also be posited...

This article contributes to an ongoing theoretical effort to extend the insights of relational and network sociology into adjacent domains. We integrate Simmel’s late theory of the relational self into the formal analysis of social relations, generating a framework for theorizing forms of association among self-relating individuals. On this model, every “node” in an interaction has relations no...

In a recent article, Wilkins, Hjelle, and Thompson (1977) argued that unlike the Dabrowski-deGrace hypothesis, self-actualized Ss should have lower levels of manifest anxiety than low self-actualized Ss. Wilkins et al. demonstrated that this was indeed a preferable hypothesis. The present experiment concerns the relationship of actualization to state and trait anxiety. Ss were administered the ...

In this paper, we study the subjunctive relative clause as a means to understand the relation between (non)veridicality, existence and event actualization. I argue that the subjunctive in the relative clause carries a presupposition of epistemic uncertainty as to the existence of a referent for the modified NP. This uncertainty can only be satisfied in non-veridical contexts, hence the distribu...

This contribution sheds light on the potential of transparent user models for self-actualization. It discusses development EDUSS, a conceptual framework self-actualization goals modeling. Drawing from qualitative research approach, investigates psychology and computer science disciplines derives set mechanisms. Following human-centered design (HCD) was applied in an iterative process to systema...

Abstract Objectives Many athletes seek to embody a mindful state when competing. However, amidst competitive pressures and demands perform at their best, report similar or even higher levels of psychological distress than community norms. Despite the widespread use mindfulness as sport performance strategy, few studies have examined mechanisms behind mindfulness, role egoic fixation plays, in a...