Cultural-Existential Psychology: The Role of Culture in Suffering and Threat

ISBN-13: 9781107480711 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 313 str.

Daniel Sullivan

Opis

Bridging cultural and experimental existential psychology, this book offers a synthetic understanding of how culture shapes psychological threat.

Recenzje

'We would describe Sullivan's efforts as highly ambitious and insightful. Due to the salience that American politics and the associated culture clash have recently enjoyed, there is a possibility that we are, in part, prisoners of the moment, but we think not. Sullivan is clearly on to something in his attempt to bring an appreciation of culture and cultural differences to the study of the ways in which individuals deal with suffering and threat. For the betterment of psychological science as well as our own conscience, we hope that he continues to integrate these important areas of research.' William L. Dunlop and Calen Horton, PsycCRITIQUES

Spis treści

Preface; Part I. Theory: 1. Theoretical roots of cultural-existential psychology; 2. Fundamental principles of cultural-existential psychology; 3. A model of existential threat; 4. Cultural variation as patterns of social orientation and control; 5. Cultural threat orientations: disorientation-avoidance and despair-avoidance; Part II. Research: 6. Modernization and changes in attitudes toward suffering among Kansas Mennonites; 7. Cultural threat orientations among traditionalist Mennonites, Unitarian Universalists, and college students; 8. Transcendence versus redemption in the experience of a natural disaster; Part III. Implications: 9. Cultural-existential psychology and contemporary society; Appendix A. Guide to key abbreviations and terms; Appendix B. Data analyses, Chapter 6; Appendix C. Methodology and questionnaire items, Chapter 7; Appendix D. Data analyses, Chapter 7.