Pub Date : 2023-12-13DOI: 10.1177/00221678231211972
P. Hlava, John Elfers, Dawn Celeste McGregor, Sonia Arreguin, Farrah Sharpe
This grounded theory study addressed the question: What model explains the lived experience of profound awe? It emerged out of a recognition that awe continues to be defined as a distinct emotion, and fails to account for the possible range of intensity of affect inherent to awe. Forty interviews were conducted with participants who identified as having had a profound experience of awe. A meditation script was used to induce a high level of memory recall of their experience. Results of the grounded theory analysis yielded three major themes: readiness, overwhelm, and beyond the everyday self. Profound awe was found to be a self-transcending emotion experience that dissolves self/other boundaries of the ego-identity into a small self or expansive self. The varied emotion appraisals ranged in intensity from mild to profound peak experience, with the potential to be transformative.
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Pub Date : 2023-12-11DOI: 10.1177/00221678231206202
Zeno Franco, Christopher S. Davis, Adina Kalet, Katinka Hooyer, David Nelson, Que El Amin, Michael Stevenson, Kathryn Cox, Andrew Yaspan, Heather Perkins, Thad Kryshak, Mike Kryshak, R. Spellecy, Aziz Abdullah, Mara Lord, Sarah O’Connor, Syed M. Ahmed
The Medical College of Wisconsin (MCW) serves the Milwaukee metro area, one of the most diverse and segregated urban areas in the United States. In the acute crisis phase of the COVID-19 pandemic, MCW’s Civic and Community Engagement (C/CE) efforts were leveraged to address community concerns around four key initiatives: (a) availability of personal protective equipment in community; (b) food and housing issues for homeless individuals; (c) the need for multi-lingual, culturally tailored public health information around infection control through work with artists, influencers, and community health workers; and (d) later, addressing vaccination disparities and fears in an equitable way. These efforts were undertaken in collaboration with the City of Milwaukee Health Department, the Milwaukee County Office of African American Affairs, and other external partners. A multi-actor case study approach examined the intersection of Institutions of Higher Education, government, and community—with a particular emphasis on how Schools of Medicine can serve a unique role in bridging these domains to create a more robust framework for equitable, humanistically informed community crisis response. Implications for future public health disasters, as well as institutional civic engagement in response to pervasive, day-to-day problems around upstream determinants of health are explored.
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Pub Date : 2023-12-03DOI: 10.1177/00221678231210153
Megan E. Brown, Marissa C. Alliegro, Mark A. Prince
College years are a time when individuals often have newfound independence, are forging their identity, and are making decisions that will affect their life beyond graduation. Existential anxiety (EA) is a psychological reaction to existential threats (e.g., freedom, death, isolation, and meaninglessness). EA has been shown to be positively correlated with externalizing behaviors in college students, and recent research has identified a significant increase in EA after the emergence of COVID-19. Extant research is lacking an in-depth, qualitative presentation of EA in college students. The present study aimed to acquire nuanced, personalized accounts of college students’ experiences with EA in their everyday lives and during COVID-19. Six focus groups were conducted where college students discussed themes related to EA. Thematic analysis revealed themes regarding college students’ experiences including: desiring connection in relationships, making responsible choices independently, craving structure amid newfound freedoms, choosing how to create meaning and purpose, and feeling uncertain about the future. Focus groups identified protective factors against EA including focusing on the present moment, creating structure, and following a belief system. General feedback on the focus groups revealed that students felt less alone after hearing their classmates’ experiences and felt EA should be talked about more often.
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Pub Date : 2023-11-22DOI: 10.1177/00221678231215546
Sarah Kamens
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Pub Date : 2023-11-20DOI: 10.1177/00221678231212104
Ying-Chien Yang
In this article, I will elaborate what kind of theory of subjectivity is implied in the practice of mindfulness. This article attempts to explain Husserl’s accounts of the constitution of selfhood (as the person) and of affection in our life-stream of consciousness to develop a more complete view of “who we are” in the practice of mindfulness. The practice of mindfulness provides a path to the well-being of the person’s emotional life. What underlies the practice of mindfulness is a particular image of the human mind, which is not just a brain, but a whole person with a psychic life that includes various types of activity, passivity, and embodied emotion. Moreover, the person’s habituality can still be transformed through mental exercise. If we thoroughly understand the relevant relationships between attention, emotions, and affective feelings in our living experience, we can then further confirm, from the Husserlian phenomenological point of view, the benefits of practicing mindfulness for emotional regulation. Emotion is not only a matter of affective feeling, but is also cognitive and is combined with the function of reason.
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Pub Date : 2023-11-04DOI: 10.1177/00221678231198740
Erik Kuravsky
In this article, an attempt is made to free mindfulness from its modern psychologically utilitarian interpretation and display its ontological-existential essence. To do that, the essay offers the existential roots of human suffering and the ontological meaning of attachment that is found at the basis of suffering. Heidegger’s philosophy is used to show that due to our anxious rejection of the nothingness that co-constitutes the Being of beings, we exist in a mode in which beings can only be experienced as objects of attachment. This ontological predicament is explicated in terms of radical alienation from the world, which takes the form of the subject–object dualism and founds what we normally take to be our psychological identity. The essay stresses that this predicament cannot be overcome by mindfulness as long as mindfulness is understood as a technique used to utilize one’s psychological resources. This impossibility is tightly related to the paradox that one cannot achieve liberation by intending to do so. Heidegger’s ideas of “letting-be,” “objectless waiting,” and “attention to Beyng” are then applied to show how mindfulness meditation can afford one to become acquainted with a nonintentional dimension of experience wherein liberation from suffering may occur.
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Pub Date : 2023-10-31DOI: 10.1177/00221678231185370
Donna Rockwell
Abraham Maslow used “Toward a Humanistic Biology,” published in 1969, to present his future vision of the challenges humankind would face in the growing isolation of persons from each other and themselves. Depersonalization, polarization, and loneliness amid the state of post-pandemic, mid-culture war, warring nations, plagues of economic hardship, racism, nationalism, immigration rejection, and wading deep into a climate cataclysm may cast people out of their societies, or, alternately, huddled alone within them. Ultimately, political power dictates outcomes, as Maslow points out, along with the fate of the world. Mindfulness and its capacity to create more serene and compassionate mind states may hold a model for a new humanistic revolution.
亚伯拉罕·马斯洛(Abraham Maslow)在1969年出版的《走向人本主义生物学》(Toward a Humanistic Biology)一书中，描绘了他对人类将面临的挑战的未来愿景，即人与人之间以及人与人之间日益孤立。在大流行后、中期文化战争、交战国家、经济困难的瘟疫、种族主义、民族主义、拒绝移民和深陷气候灾难的状态下，人格解体、两极分化和孤独可能会把人们赶出他们的社会，或者，交替地，孤独地蜷缩在其中。正如马斯洛指出的那样，最终，政治权力决定了结果，也决定了世界的命运。正念及其创造更平静、更富有同情心的精神状态的能力，可能为一场新的人文主义革命提供了一种模式。
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Pub Date : 2023-10-24DOI: 10.1177/00221678231203513
Peter K. H. Chew, Bryan Danni, Shi Yi Koh, Gracie M. S. Tay
Terror management theory has been used to explain our penchant for materialism. While materialism includes both the desire for products and the desire for money, research has generally examined the former. Consequently, this article aimed to examine the effects of mortality salience on desire for money in Singapore. Study 1 found that mortality salience did not increase self-reported desire for money but increased the size of a drawn coin. Study 2 found that mortality salience did not increase the preferred selling price of a used laptop. Finally, Study 3 found that mortality salience did not increase the willingness to listen to unpleasant sounds in exchange for money. Furthermore, attitudes toward money did not moderate the effects of mortality salience on desire for money. The nonsignificant results could be due to data collection during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic and the use of a Singaporean sample. Future research directions include examining the effects of the pandemic on terror management theory research and examining both the desire for products and the desire for money concurrently as dependent variables.
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Pub Date : 2023-10-23DOI: 10.1177/00221678231204384
Elliot Benjamin
In this article, the author gives a personal experiential account of the relationship of Martin Luther King Jr’s formulation of creative maladjustment to progressive politics and humanistic psychology. In particular, the author focuses on what he views as two significant current illustrations of creative maladjustment, which are former U.S. First Lady Michelle Obama’s concept of “going high” and existential humanistic psychologist Kirk Schneider’s concept of “life-enhancing anxiety.” The author relates these conceptualizations to what he perceives as the alarming dangers both in the world and in the United States from the horrific possibilities of nuclear war, climate devastation, and the destruction of U.S. democracy. More specifically, the author focuses on what he views as the disastrous possibility of Donald Trump becoming President of the United States in 2024. The author discusses all of this in relation to the core principles of humanistic psychology and to progressive political grass roots actions, and shares some of his own relevant experiences in this regard.
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