Human Autonomy in Cross-Cultural Context (Cross-Cultural Advancements in Positive Psychology, 1)

Chirkov

ISBN 10: 9048196663 / ISBN 13: 9789048196661

Edité par Springer (edition 2011), 2010

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• Titre: Human Autonomy in Cross-Cultural Context (Cross-Cultural Advancements in Positive Psychology, 1)
• Éditeur: Springer (edition 2011)
• Date de parution: 2010
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 9048196663
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9789048196661
• Reliure: Hardcover
• Édition: 2011.
• État de l'article: Very Good

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Synopsis

This volume presents the reader with a stimulating tapestry of essays exploring the nature of personal autonomy, self-determination, and agency, and their role in human optimal functioning at multiple levels of analysis from personal to societal and cross-cultural. The starting point for these explorations is self-determination theory, an integrated theory of human motivation and healthy development which has been under development for more than three decades (Deci & Ryan, 2000). As the contributions will make clear, psychological autonomy is a concept that forms the bridge between the dependence of human behavior on biological and socio-cultural determinants on the one side, and people's ability to be free, reflective, and transforming agents who can challenge these dependencies, on the other. The authors within this volume share a vision that human autonomy is a fundamental pre-condition for both individuals and groups to thrive, and that without understanding the nature and mechanisms of autonomous agency vital social and human problems cannot be satisfactory addressed.

This multidisciplinary team of researchers will collectively explore the nature of personal autonomy, considering its developmental origins, its expression within relationships, its importance within groups and organizational functioning, and its role in promoting to the democratic and economic development of societies. The book is aimed toward developmental, social, personality, and cross-cultural psychologists, towards researchers and practitioners' in the areas of education, health and medicine, social work and, economics, and also towards all interested in creating a more sustainable and just world society through promoting individual freedom and agency.

This volume will provide

• a theoretical and conceptual account of the nature and psychological mechanisms of personal motivational autonomy and human agency;
• richmultidisciplinary empirical evidence supporting the claims and propositions about the nature of human autonomy and capacities for self-regulation;
• explanations of how and why different psychological and socio-cultural conditions may play a role in promoting or undermining people's autonomous motivation and well-being,
• discussions of how the promotion of human autonomy can positively influence environmental protection, democracy promotion and economic prosperity.

À propos de l?auteur

Valery Chirkov received his Ph.D. in social psychology from the University of Rochester, Rochester NY. He is an associate professor in Culture and Human Development and Applied Social Psychology programs in the Department of Psychology at the University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK. His research interests concern the application of self-determination theory of human motivation in cross-cultural research, psychology of immigration and acculturation, culture and well-being.