The Routledge International Handbook of Human Significance and Mattering

1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-032-54344-4
Verlag: Aakar Books

Buch, Englisch, 376 Seiten, Format (B × H): 170 mm x 244 mm, Gewicht: 798 g

Reihe: Routledge International Handbooks

This innovative book addresses the need for significance and mattering as a universal human motivation. It examines the impact of significance and mattering, considering how they manifest across our lifespan and in different parts of our lives.

Written by a team of eminent authors with expertise in diverse psychological fields, the book explores how significance and mattering extend to almost all social domains, including families, schools, colleges, groups, workplaces, communities, and nations. The book is divided into four main parts, which consider the impact of significance and mattering across the life span, across life domains, across societies and cultures, and in mental health. The chapters outline how significance and mattering power race and gender politics, shape attitudes toward immigration, drive violent extremism, and underlie mental health issues, such as loneliness, and narcissism. The book considers the quest for significance as a fundamental motive in our personal interactions and in how society operates as a whole.

Providing a truly comprehensive coverage of a ubiquitous psychological dynamic that affects all aspects of our lives, this book will be highly relevant for researchers, academics, practitioners, and students in psychology, social sciences, education, social work, and therapeutic professions. In addition, the book should appeal to organizational, political, and community leaders and the general public interested in human behavior and social problems.

Zielgruppe

Academic and Postgraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kruglanski, Arie W

Prilleltensky, Isaac

Raviv, Amiram

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Allgemeine Psychologie Sozialpsychologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Table of Contents



List of Contributors

List of Figures

List of Tables

Part 1: Introduction

1 The Supreme Human Quest- Arie W. Kruglanski, Isaac Prilleltensky, and Amiram Raviv

Part 2: Significance and Mattering Across the Lifespan

2 Mattering in Childhood: A Developmental Attachment Perspective- Jessica A. Stern and Jude Cassidy

3 Mattering, Self-Esteem, and First-Generation College Students- Gregory C. Elliott, Emily J. Siff, and Jardelle Johnson

4 An Attachment Perspective on the Quest for Significance And Mattering- Mario Mikulincer and Phillip R. Shaver

5 Significance And Mattering in Late Adulthood- Jessie Dezutter and Laura Dewitte

6 A Terror Management Theory Perspective on the Human Needs For Self-Esteem, Meaning, Close Relationships, and Significance- Tom Pyszcynski and Jonathan Morgan

Part 3: Significance And Mattering Across Life Domains

7 The Quest For Significance and Mattering in Education- Maurice J. Elias, Danielle R. Hatchimonji, Samuel J. Nayman, and Arielle C.V. Linsky

8 Mattering and Work- David L. Blustein, Camille M. Smith, Karley Guterres, and Brenda Tsai

9 Communities: Sites, Sources, and Subjects of Significance- Michael P. Scarpa

Part 4: Significance and Mattering Across Societies and Cultures

10 Making “Us” Matter: Social Identity, Leadership, and Collective Agency- Katherine J. Reynolds, Emina Subašic, Benjamin Jones, and Haochen Zhou

11 Gender, Significance, and Mattering- Amanda B. Diekman, Andrew D. White, and Samantha L. Heiman

12 “Good Trouble”: Nonviolent Activism and the Quest for Psychological Significance in a Racialized Society- Angela P. Cole-Dixon and Cynthia E. Winston-Proctor

13 Significance Quest and International Relations: On the Psychology of Foreign Affairs- Markéta Kocmanová, Karl Kaltenthaler, and Arie W. Kruglanski

14 Love, Motivated: Partner Merit And Appreciation as Sources of Significance- Molly Ellenberg, Arie W. Kruglanski, Ewa Szumowska, and Huixian Yu

15 Significance: The Missing Link Between Frustration and Aggression- Molly Ellenberg, Arie W. Kruglanski and Brad J. Bushman

16 Mattering as Citizens: Conditions- Isaac Prilleltensky, Michael P. Scarpa, Salvatore Di Martino, Dina von Heimburg, and Ottar Ness

17 Mattering as Citizens: Correlates and Consequences- Michael P. Scarpa, Salvatore Di Martino, Dina von Heimburg, Ottar Ness, and Isaac Prilleltensky

18 Gaining and Maintaining Significance: The Role of Group Membership- John M. Levine and Dominic Abrams

19 Significance and Mattering in Migration- David Webber, Erica Molinario, Katarzyna Jasko, and Arie W. Kruglanski

20 Down The Yellow Brick Road: How Socialization Through Early Narratives Shapes the Quest for Significance- Sophia Moscalenko

Part 5: Significance and Mattering in Mental Health

21 Self-Worth in Mental Health: At the Intersection of Mattering and Significance- Melissa Hagan, Brianna Hernandez, and Abigail W. Batchelder

22 Conservation of Resources Theory and Traumatic Stress Placed in the Context of Meaning Making: An Evolutionary Ecological Perspective- Steve Hobfoll and Wai Kai Hou

23 The Narcissism Spectrum Through the Prism of Significance-Quest Theory- Amiram Raviv, Ami Sha'ked, and Darya Maoz

24 Feelings of Not Mattering Among Lonely People: Is the Loneliness Epidemic Due to an Epidemic of Feeling Insignificant? - Gordon L. Flett, Alison L. Rose, and Joel O. Goldberg

25 Conclusion: Lessons Learned and Practical Applications- Isaac Prilleltensky, Amiram Raviv, and Arie W. Kruglanski

Über Autor(innen)

Arie W. Kruglanski is Distinguished University Professor of Psychology at the University of Maryland, USA.

Isaac Prilleltensky is the Erwin and Barbara Mautner Chair in Community Well-Being at the University of Miami, USA.

Amiram Raviv is a school and clinical psychologist. He is Professor Emeritus at the School of Psychological Sciences at Tel Aviv University, Israel.