Significance of individual aspirations in health psychology

Book Description: Health psychology is based upon a dynamic approach to the personality. In this way, psychology does not primarily deal with the interrelation between the constant features of the personality and health, but interprets the human personality as a functional system, in which perceptions, cognitions, values and personal ambitions constitute an organic whole, exerting their joint effect on health. In view of all this, it is necessary to identify the personal goals, values and aspirations that may serve as a protective factor in preserving health, creating and maintaining psychic balance, and contribute to the elimination or counterbalancing of undesired behaviour patterns. In this volume, the authors make an effort to find the answers to these questions. The authors examine the connections of personal aspirations with subjective well-being and certain depression symptoms. Table of Contents: Preface Research and Review Studies Chapter 1. CORRELATION BETWEEN INDIVIDUAL ASPIRATIONS AND SUBJECTIVE WELL-BEING 1. INTRODUCTION 1.1. Individual aspirations and subjective well-being 1.2. Research hypotheses 2. METHOD 2.1. Participants 2.2. Measures 2.2.1 Examination of subjective well-being Diener’s Life Satisfaction Scale Bern Subjective Well-Being Inventory 2.2.2. Survey of the individual aspirations Aspiration Inventory 3. RESULTS 3.1. Descriptive and comparative statistics 3.2. Differences in individual aspirations relative to different levels of subjective well being 3.3. Interrelation between individual aspirations and subjective well being 4. CONCLUSION REFERENCES Chapter 2. CORRELATION BETWEEN INDIVIDUAL ASPIRATIONS AND DEPRESSION 1. INTRODUCTION 1.1. Individual aspirations and and depression 1.2. The aims of the research 2. METHOD 2.1. Participants 2.2. Measures 2.2.1. Survey of the actual symptoms of depression The Abridged screening version of Beck’s Depression Inventory 2.2.2. Survey of the individual aspirations Aspiration Inventory 2.2.3. Survey of lifetime events Secondary School Lifetime Event Questionnaire 3. RESULTS 3.1. Descriptive and comparative statistics 3.2. Connection between symptoms of depression and individual aspirations 4. CONCLUSION REFERENCES INDEX