THE WILL TO MEANING AND VALUES DURING CRISIS. VALUES CRISIS AND THE CRISIS OF THE WILL TO MEANING. APPROACH AND INTERVENTION
THE WILL TO MEANING AND VALUES DURING CRISIS. VALUES CRISIS AND THE CRISIS OF THE WILL TO MEANING. APPROACH AND INTERVENTION

Summary/Abstract: At a first glimpse, it seems that people have a sort of an intuitive sense about what is right and what is wrong, but, behind the scenes, moral values are the one capable of sorting things and deeds and label them as good or wrong, justified or not. All these moral values determine how people behave, ultimately, how people judge external events or other individuals and how they behave in social situations. Socially speaking, the aggregate distribution of all these moral values in a population, shapes specifically and determinatively, patterns of human behavior. Moral values are profoundly connected to the will to meaning as the ultimate motor of life that makes humans fulfill their mission and sparkle uniquely. During crises both the will to meaning and values are challenged and under suffering, the individual has the opportunity to immerse in the depth of his psychological structure, acknowledging them, actualizing, structuring and restructuring them so as to adapt and gain balance. The Covid-19 pandemic and Ukraine war with its economic, social and psychological consequences, offers a truly unique opportunity as they are both, multidimensional experiments where to study how people’s will to meaning and moral values behave. Under the impact of these two massive events, several research questions arise: Do the war and pandemic impact people’s will to meaning and values? Do people find their will to meaning and how? Do people change their moral values under the imprint of these tremendous crisis?

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