Narvaez Basic Needs, Wellbeing and Morality

Fulfilling Human Potential
1. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-3-319-97734-8
Verlag: Springer International Publishing
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 173 Seiten, eBook

Reihe: Progress in Mathematics

Basic needs fulfilment is fundamental to becoming human and reaching one’s potential. Extending the BUCET list proposed by Susan Fiske - which includes belonging, understanding, control/competence, autonomy, self-enhancement, trust, purpose and life satisfaction - this book demonstrates that the fulfilment of basic needs predicts adult physical and mental health, as well as sociality and morality. The authors suggest that meeting basic needs in childhood vitally shapes one’s trajectory for self-actualization, and that initiatives aimed at human wellbeing should include a greater emphasis on early childhood experience. Through contemporaneous and retrospective research in childhood, the authors argue that basic need-fulfilment is key to the development of the self and the possibility of reaching one’s full potential. This book will be of interest to scholars of human wellbeing and societal flourishing, as well as to health workers and educators.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Narvaez, Darcia

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chapter 1. The Notion of Basic Needs.- Chapter 2. Measuring Basic Needs Satisfaction and Its Relation to Health and Wellbeing.- Chapter 3. Basic Needs Satisfaction and its Relation to Childhood Experience.- Chapter 4. Basic Needs Satisfaction and its Relation to Socio-Morality Capacities and Behavior.- Chapter 5. Basic Needs and Fulfilling Human Potential.- Epilogue.

Über Autor(innen)

Darcia Narvaez is Professor of Psychology at the University of Notre Dame, USA. Her research interests are focused around moral development and flourishing across the lifespan.