Cultural-existential psychology : the role of culture in suffering and threat /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Sullivan, Daniel, 1985- (Author)
Corporate Author:	ProQuest (Firm)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Cambridge, United Kingdom : Cambridge University Press, 2016.
Subjects:	Psychology > Social aspects. Existential psychology. Culture > Psychological aspects. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Table of Contents:

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.