
The Psychology of Mattering
Understanding the Human Need to be Significant
Description
Key Features
- Defines mattering and its various facets
- Explains the importance of mattering in predicting key life outcomes
- Provides a narrative perspective on the importance of mattering in people’s lives
- Discusses mattering in terms of self-esteem, perfectionism, self-compassion, and vulnerabilities and resilience
- Describes assessment scales for measuring mattering
- Details links between mattering and anxiety, depression and suicide
Readership
Students and researchers in psychology, sociology, and public health. Educated lay people interested in mattering, meaning in life, suicide, resilience
Table of Contents
Preface
Part I Introduction and Significance in People’s Lives
1. Introduction
2. Life Stories of Mattering and Anti-Mattering: A Narrative Perspective
Part II Definition, Conceptualization, and Assessment
3. Mattering: Definitional Considerations and Historical Advances
4. Mattering as a Psychological Construct
5. The Assessment of Mattering
6. The Development of Mattering
Part III Mattering in Positive and Negative Adjustment
7. Mattering in Positive and Negative Adjustment
8. Mattering Versus Not Mattering in Mental Illness: Associations With Anxiety, Depression, Suicide, and Personality Dysfunction
9. The Need to Matter in Clinical and Counseling Settings: The Treatment Process of the Client-Therapist Relationship
Part IV Mattering in Life Contexts
10. Mattering at School
11. Mattering at Work
12. Mattering in the Community
Part V Knowledge Mobilization and Future Directions
13. The Psychology of Mattering: Knowledge Implementation Recommendations
14. The Psychology of Mattering: Issues and Future Directions
Product details
- No. of pages: 360
- Language: English
- Copyright: © Academic Press 2018
- Published: June 1, 2018
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Paperback ISBN: 9780128094150
- eBook ISBN: 9780128134320
About the Author
Gordon Flett
Affiliations and Expertise
Ratings and Reviews
Latest reviews
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carolynspencer Thu Jun 20 2019
Extremely through account of the phenomena
This was a very valuable purchase for me. I appreciated how the author was so extremely through with the content, situation, and phenomena. The author also reviewed seminal papers in the area which allowed for further clarification. This was a valuable purchase for me.
RebeccaLamperski Mon Jul 09 2018
Comprehensive
Comprehensive review of mattering. First book of its sort! Excellent work. Added some excellent proprietary work. Impactful to the construct and the world.