The Psychology of Ultimate Concerns: Motivation and Spirituality in Personality - Softcover

Emmons, Robert A.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1572309350 ISBN 13: 9781572309357

Publisher: The Guilford Press, 2003

Synopsis

Proposing that personal goals are what give meaning to life, this volume explores the role played by spirituality and religion in investing goals with significance. The concept of ultimate concerns is developed as a scientific construct and an innovative framework is presented for their assessment and measurement. Marshaling important findings from his own and others' research, Robert A. Emmons provides compelling insights into the links between spirituality, subjective well-being, and personality integration. He demonstrates how locating religion and spirituality within accepted scientific parameters can deepen our understanding of these pervasive dimensions of human experience. Further, the book makes a powerful case for the inclusion of ultimate concerns in any attempt to build a motivational theory of personality.

About this title

About the Author:

Robert A. Emmons, Ph.D. is Professor of Psychology at the University of California, Davis.

Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.:

I. Personal Goals: An Approach to Personality and Subjective Well-Being
1. Introduction: Motivation and Spirituality in Personality
2. Personal Goals as Units of Analysis
3. Personal Goals and Subjective Well-Being
4. Goal Conflict and Personality Fragmentation
II. Spirituality, Goals, and Intelligence
5. Spiritual Strivings as Ultimate Concerns
6. From Goal to Whole: Spiritual Strivings and Personality Integration
7. Personal Goals and Life Meaning
8. Spiritual Intelligence: Toward a Theory of Personality and Spirituality
*Appendix A: Personal Striving Assessment Packet
*Appendix B: Personal Striving Coding Manual

About this edition

• Publisher: The Guilford Press
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 1572309350
• ISBN 13: 9781572309357
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 230