THE MEANING OF LIFE IN THE CONTEXT OF THE FEELING OF LIFE SATISFACTION
Journal Title: Psychological journal - Year 2018, Vol 4, Issue 1
Abstract
The article analyzes the phenomenon of life satisfaction and its relationship with the meaning of life and life purport orientations in theoretical and empirical aspects. It is noted that while E. Diner considered that life satisfaction is the cognitive component of subjective well-being feeling (which, in his opinion, corresponds to the concept of “happiness”), most psychologists who have studied this concept, and we agree with them, tend to see an essential emotional component into its content. It is noted that the concept of life satisfaction combines the cognitive and emotional aspects of the subjective assessment of a person of the degree of matching of his life to the desirable. The understanding of life satisfaction as a result of successful implementation of human life goal, which is considered as extremely important existential value that gives meaning to human life is determined. It points out, that people aspire to happiness and enjoyment from life, and see the meaning of not only their own life (in general), but also the sense of life situations, every moment of life, exactly in achievement of this, although more often person does not realize the connection of meaning of life with the sense of life satisfaction till the moment of summing up the results of life path. While V. Frankl argued, that the aspiration for happiness and life satisfaction can’t be the meaning of human life, and as well as self-realization is “by-product” of realization of the meaning of life. The idea that the meaning of life related to feeling life satisfaction is substantiates. Even in the context of V. Frankl’s views the life satisfaction could be interpreted as meaning of life, if correlative with existential values that are able (by Frankl) to make life meaningful. As a result of empirical research of the degree of satisfaction with life and its meaningfulness by students-psychologists it concludes that the person, satisfied with life and living with a senses of success in the process of realizing its purpose and happiness, believe in the justice of the world and his own fortune; hope for the sufficient level of personal living resources (psychological and energetic) implemented in meaningful life (this don’t except a critical assessment of the availability of sense in the world in general) convinced of their ability to rationally raise and achieve goals for the implementation of the meaning of life by controlling the events of his life and development of ability to the self-management.
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Halyna Chuyko
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- DOI 10.31108/1.2018.1.11.4
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