Basic needs, wellbeing and morality : fulfilling human potential / Darcia Narvaez, editor.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Narváez, Darcia, editor.

Series:

Palgrave pivot

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Well-being.

Basic needs.

Self-actualization (Psychology).

Human rights.

Physical Description:

xvi, 173 pages, : illustrations (black and white) ; 21 cm.

Place of Publication:

Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2018]

Summary:

"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"--Back cover.

Contents:

The notion of basic needs / Darcia Narvaez and Rebecca Noble

Measuring basic needs fulfillment and its relation to health and wellbeing / Rebecca Noble, Angela Kurth and Darcia Narvaez

Basic needs satisfaction and its relation to childhood experience / Rebecca Noble, Angela Kurth and Darcia Narvaez

Basic needs satisfaction and its relation to sociomoral capacities and behavior / Angela Kurth and Darcia Narvaez

Basic needs and fulfilling human potential / Darcia Narvaez

Epilogue: the future of basic needs fulfillment / Darcia Narvaez.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

ebook version :

ISBN:

9783319977331

3319977334

OCLC:

1063653400