Publication details
Všímavost je klíčem pro zvládání smrti
| Title in English | Mindfulness is the key for death coping |
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| Authors | |
| Year of publication | 2009 |
| Type | Article in Proceedings |
| Conference | Psychospirituální dimenze osobnosti |
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| Citation | |
| Field | Psychology |
| Keywords | cultural psychology; death coping; experiencing; grounded theory; mindfulness; psychology of Abhidhamma; social representations |
| Description | The contribution presents research findings on the social representations of death won in the cultures of the Czech Republic and Sri Lanka. Mindfulness plays a central role in death coping; it brings cultural and social shared meanings into contact with experiencing. Sri Lankan cultural store of knowledge offers procedures for mindfulness cultivation that are used by the people in their everyday life and systematically formulated in the culture specific psychology of Abhidhamma, which is reported as such by the respondents. Respondents in the Czech Republic either eschew the question of death or in a better case point to some results of mindfulness training as described for example by Carl R. Rogers who speaks about the ability to authentically accept experienced reality. |