The Meaning of Life as Indicator of Health and Research Category in Social Sciences Cover Image

Sens życia jako wyznacznik zdrowia oraz kategoria badawcza w obszarze nauk społecznych
The Meaning of Life as Indicator of Health and Research Category in Social Sciences

Author(s): Jolanta Spętana
Subject(s): Education, Sociology, Psychology of Self, Health and medicine and law
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego
Keywords: meaning of life; health; pedagogy of health; existential condition

Summary/Abstract: The article examines diverse determinants of the human existential and health condition considering the interdisciplinary paradigm of health and disease and the perspective of social sciences. The category of the meaning of life, constituting the predictor of health, has been presented from the view of psychological analyses (including the conceptions of Viktor Frankl), conceptions of health and existential deficits resulting in, among other things, risks of suicidal behaviour.

  • Issue Year: 2016
  • Issue No: 46 (1)
  • Page Range: 301-317
  • Page Count: 17
  • Language: Polish