Publication details
Spiritualita a životní spokojenost z pohledu pozitivní psychologie
| Title in English | Spirituality and life satisfaction from the perspective of positive psychology |
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| Year of publication | 2013 |
| Type | Popularization text |
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| Description | The concept of spirituality in psychology has a broad meaning. We can understand spirituality as what transcends the ordinariness of everyday life, both at the level of experience, and at the level of personality (Rican, 2006). While some authors find the essence of spirituality in the search for the sacred (Pargament, Mahoney, 2002), others understand transcendence in a broader sense as a search for meaning, unity, connectedness, the highest realization of human potential (Emmons, Crumpler, 1999). As illustrated by a number of research studies in the field of positive psychology, spirituality and meaningfulness play a significant role in well-being and life satisfaction. Spirituality may even act as a protective factor increasing resistance to health and psychological problems, stress and difficult life events. Research shows that religious people are slightly healthier than non-religious people (Krause, 2006), and they tend to be better educated, less likely to use drugs or commit crimes and live longer (Diener, Biswas-Diener, 2008). Spirituality and religiosity is also closely related to certain character strengths: compassion, kindness and forgiveness (Peterson, Seligman, 2004). |