Mature Love Research Articles

Hierarchy of value orientations and locus of control for students with disabilities

Introduction. Inclusive higher education is based on the principle of humanity and addresses the personal values of students. The purpose of the research is to examine the hierarchy of values and locus of control for students with disabilities. Materials and methods. Sample: 93 students aged 17 to 28. Methods: Rokeach Value Survey and the Level of Subjective Control questionnaire. Statistical processing methods: Mann-Whitney U test, mean values ranking procedure, binomial distribution procedure. Results. Students with disabilities attach high importance to both interpersonal relationships and independence. Students with disabilities more often have an external locus of control, particularly in the spheres of health, failure, family and, above all, industrial relations, but there is a small group of respondents with an internal locus of control. Respondents attributed their achievements and interpersonal relationships to both themselves and external factors. Respondents with an internal locus of control place higher values on a financial security and entertainment, while respondents with an external locus of control place higher values of mature love and a happy family life. Conclusions. Students with disabilities have different values and types of locus of control. Comparative analysis revealed differences between students with congenital and acquired disabilities, as well as students with internal and external locus of control. The research expands the perception of students with disabilities. This will allow you to get closer to solving the urgent problems of their adaptation and interaction with teachers and students. The research is of interest to psychologists and educators.

Differentiating between romantic and mature love: Revisiting the three caskets.

Freud's paper on the three caskets is revisited. His view that the lead casket represented death is supported by extracts from The Merchant of Venice, in particular the song, "Tell Me Where is Fancy Bred". It is argued that the acceptance of death is a necessary step in the transformation of romantic love to mature love. With experience of reality a disillusion of romantic idealisation becomes possible, but this means that losses have to be accepted and mourned. It is argued that this is made more bearable if an ironic stance enables an acceptance of the pleasures of romance without believing them to be literally true.

Dying to be born: How the failure to achieve mature love keeps humanity shackled to a necrophilic orientation

Humanity is in crisis, and has been accelerating toward its own destruction. This is evident in: apathy toward climate change and the extinction of several species; the repetitive cycle of genocide and war; and the prevalence of nationalism, fascism, and xenophobia. As a citizen of the United States, I apply Erich Fromm's concepts of mature love, capitalism, alienation, the necrophilic character orientation, and insanity to the ailments plaguing the US, including: (1) white supremacy; (2) the systemic oppression of Black and Brown people; (3) legislation against women and LGBTQ + people; and (4) anti-maskers and science deniers. I also provide a critique of the noxious effects of capitalism. Fromm's ideas suggest these problems are a reflection of our collective failure to overcome our separateness through mature love, and are a byproduct of destructive, compensatory defenses that further our alienation and deadness. Fromm describes humanity as being in its psychological nascence, and defines being fully born as being a complete, integrated individual who is capable of self-love and of loving all other living beings. To correct our current trajectory, we need only apply Fromm's work in order to not compulsively repeat our tragic history in a tumultuous struggle to be born.

Design of Issue-Centered Character Curriculum and Application on the Liberal Arts Course of University

The purpose of this study was to design and implement an issue-centered character curriculum for university students in order to explore its educational effectiveness. To this end, a four-stage model of the issue-centered character education curriculum was designed, cycling through ‘topic recognition,’ ‘diachronic issue consideration,’ ‘synchronic issue analysis,’ and ‘practical decision-making.’ This model is designed to integrate knowledge, attitude, and practice. The ‘topic recognition’ stage focuses on knowledge, the ‘diachronic issue consideration’ stage focuses on knowledge and attitude, the ‘synchronic issue analysis’ stage focuses on attitude and practice, and finally, the ‘practical decision-making’ stage focuses on practice. According to the designed model, teaching and learning materials were organized into nine topics: freedom and responsibility, human dignity, personal relationships, ethics, self-identity, human origins, body and soul, mature love, and life. In order to explore the effectiveness of the issue-centered character curriculum, it was implemented into basic liberal arts courses at universities in the metropolitan area for one semester. The effectiveness of the curriculum was analyzed for a total of 321 university students, and both character competencies and value recognition showed statistically significant improvement. Based on the results, pedagogical implications for the design and practice of character curriculum in universities were proposed.

Values in foundation of modern globalizing society: Change study

Introduction. The modern era is experiencing a prolonged pandemic, migration issues, conflicts, and other global catastrophes. Many researchers see the cause of these problems in the crisis of traditional values, which is becoming increasingly apparent today. Values and value orientations are an integral part of human life and culture. They determine life goals, as well as ways and means of achieving them. Global catastrophes and continuous social changes lead to the transformation of the value system, which is reflected in scholarly literature, as researchers primarily react to particularly acute and relevant problems of modern times. The main goal of this study is to reveal values which constitute the foundations of modern globalizing society and to describe their recent transformations. Materials and Methods. In this regard, an analysis of scholarly literature devoted to the issues of values was conducted. The universal classification of values proposed by S. Schwartz was used as the basis for the analysis. The main methodology was content analysis of scholarly literature for the prevalence and occurrence of the main types of values in scientific works in the Web of Science database from 2017 to 2022. Results. Research findings include the following: 1) the prevalence and use of all types of values has been increasing for the period; 2) the dominance of individualistic egoistic values over public collective values; 3) the most common categories of values are: independence, health, success, responsibility, and capability. The least common values are: open-mindedness, common preferences, self-indulgence, respect for elders, mature love, and true friendship; 4) in recent years despite social upheavals, the main values of society have not changed. Thus, it can be concluded that spiritual values do not generate as much scientific interest as material values. Although the pandemic was able to make people reflect on the moral foundations of their life, it did not significantly affect the re-evaluation of modern values. However, the researchers emphasize that within a decaying culture, some precursors of the emerging (post-technocratic) culture are developing. According to them, the new worldview will be built on overcoming anthropocentric attitudes. Conclusions. This study will complement the understanding of the transformation of modern values under the influence of the pandemic, globalization, crises, and other factors. Its results will be useful to educators in higher education institutions, education philosophers, and anyone interested in higher education problems.

Any Island by Ilka Scobie

Reviewed by: Any Island by Ilka Scobie Lynn McGee (bio) any island Ilka Scobie Spuyten Duyvil http://www.spuytenduyvil.net/any-island.html 56 pages; Print, $16.00 Native New Yorker Ilka Scobie is not infatuated with the city of her birth. Her regard for the urban puzzle known as New York City is a mature love recognizing its flaws with unapologetic nostalgia. She pulls this off with aplomb, as in "2B": "Brooklyn, where I'm from, boasts mad Bs / Bedford Stuyvesant, Bed-Stuy, do or die / Brownsville, or the Ville / Bay Ridge of sweeping bridge." In "Taxi" she mourns the direction the economy of New York City has taken, as evidenced by the extinction of the iconic Checker cab: "Soon you will be a nostalgic footnote, like Gem Spa, egg creams, / The Village Voice, and subway tokens. / We are left with Uber, Via, Lyft; acronyms for anonymity." In "What to Wear to the Demonstration," a tone-setting poem that anchors the collection's voice, the first line is "Black, of course," and in the lines that follow the speaker fuses style with necessity, including the necessity [End Page 133] of pushing back: "Black, sophisticated, stylish, sensual / hides the grim of urban life. / Garbed in black, we are an army." As for what to push back against, Scobie moves her scope from local to national in "Dark Daze" and gives a nod to inclusion: "If you are a woman, be very afraid … And if you are gay, do not believe his [a reference to a "commander in chief" who is "a chauvinist"] lying lips / There will be no support for an Equality Act." That spirit of inclusiveness might seem to wane in "To the Boy Who Wants to be a Girl," as the speaker looks "straight into" the "innocent eyes" of an individual who is transitioning from male and female, and admits, "it's beyond my middle-aged, middle-class, / hetero comprehension, why, lovely child / that you are, / there is an urgency to deny the dick between your legs." Some will lose connection with the speaker in that moment, but overall the tone of moral authority in Any Island resonates convincingly, at least for this reader. "On the Destruction of the Seventh-Century Assyrian Winged Bull in Mosul, Iraq" appears to reference the invasion of Iraq after 9/11 and observes that "No sapient shards penetrate the hatred / That shatters ancient artifacts … Whoever would destroy the creation of my hands, / Let the great lord destroy his name and posterity on earth." Spinning off from other cultural events that have political overtones, "Space Pioneers" provides an epigraph: "On Nov. 17, 2011, the Congress awarded gold medals to the original astronauts," and while John Glenn, Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, and Michael Collins are not named in the poem, the speaker compares these "space pioneers" with women emerging in the same era as social pioneers. If the reader brings to the poem the knowledge that John Glenn flew into space in 1962 and it wasn't until 1974 that women could open credit in their own name, it can be satisfying to read, "Where is our well-deserved recognition / For venturing where no (wo)man has tread before / Inner space astronauts." A spiky flowerlike image in a drawing by Elisabeth Kley, Untitled Drawing, complements this poem. Other visuals throughout the collection include the ink drawing Ugo Rondinno, by einunddreissigsteroktoberzweitausendundsieben; and a moody, massive drawing of a tree that echoes the poem "Millennium": "How naïve our ancestors, who believed / in limitless forest and eternal fauna. / Worshipping consumerism, we squandered nature / for the fantasy of virgin birth." [End Page 134] Recognized as a political poet—alongside New York City writers of similar generation including Sparrow, Jeffrey Cyphers Wright, Lewis Warsh, Bernadette Mayer, and others—in person, Scobie reads her work aloud with a certainty that is consistent with her critical reviews appearing in Brooklyn Rail and other venues. The insight of a lifelong resident who has seen her city evolve over decades dovetails with the perspective of a traveler in "Sakura," where Scobie reveres the ginkgo trees of the Brooklyn she grew up in and bemoans "Trees cut to make room for architectural / grandiosity...

Love and evaluative conflict

AbstractLovers often disagree. We may reject the specific goals our loved ones pursue or the broad values they hold. Some philosophers suggest that such evaluative conflict makes romantic love in its ideal form deficient. I argue that this is mistaken. On the contrary, our ideal of love holds that we can love people for “who they are” (as we say), even as we profoundly disagree with them. My argument draws on intuitive cases from screwball comedy about love amid conflict, love across political party lines, as well as “forbidden” love across religions and cultures. At a deeper level, I sketch an ideal of love I call intimate independence and argue that this ideal is (a) fully compatible with any evaluative conflict, (b) embedded in our ordinary attitudes toward mature love between equals, and (c) an ideal worth achieving. As long as intimate independence is a compelling ideal, deep conflict will not seem like an obstacle to true love. The ideal reminds us that love can bring together people with radically different points of view, and that to insist on shared ends or values is thus to miss a part of the meaning and power of love.

A Celebration of Mature Love: Posthuman Sexuality, Gender, and Romance in Kim Stanley Robinson's 2312

Kim Stanley Robinson's novel 2312 (2012) has been mainly approached from an ecocritical perspective. I focus here, however, on the love story between its protagonists, Swan Er Hong and Fitz Wahram. Robinson considers posthuman sexuality and gender, and the meaning of marriage in the posthuman future of our species. Swan and Wahram disrupt intersexuality, heterosexuality, femininity, and masculinity from a progressive perspective, but Robinson's main challenge to his readers is his focus on love. Relying mainly on Alain Badiou's In Praise of Love, I argue that, beyond the freedom which humans enjoy regarding sex and gender in Robinson's twenty-fourth-century solar system, in 2312 he is specifically celebrating mature love beyond superficial passion. Robinson considers, besides, how posthumans aspiring to extreme longevity may see marriage from an angle that defies Zygmunt Bauman's views about the ephemerality of romantic relationships and the current questioning of marriage itself.

Psychodynamic Aspects of Love: A Narrative Review.

Love is a delicate experience that delves into the foundations of the psyche, and many sources of the emotional experience of love remain unconscious. The nature of love is twofold and contradictory, regressive and progressive, constructive and destructive, connecting and separating, directed toward the object and the self. The ability to idealize is a precondition for "falling in love". Abrupt disappointments can be traumatizing, but gradual ones include the work of mourning and may lead to a more authentic relationship that is less obscured by narcissistic needs. Some aspects of projective identification, which can be a defense, a primitive form of object relation, and a path for psychological change, may be present in all forms of love. These are the close interaction of self and object, blurred boundaries between them, the need that the other person feels what one feels, and a strong desire to continue the relationship. A therapeutic setting can enable the long-term transformation of love in transference and more mature expressions of love in life. The maturation of narcissism is the hallmark of mature love. One of the prerequisites for mature love is a mature superego, which does not require suffering as a prerequisite for satisfying one's needs. Clear differentiation of the boundaries of the self enables safe (temporary) blurring or disappearing of its boundaries and satisfaction of needs for repetition of lost fusion with the primary object of love. Mature love also means the capacity for tolerating ambivalence, i.e., the capacity to integrate both love and hatred experiences of the same person. One can see love as a "glue" that helps integrate different aspects of the psyche into a harmonious whole.

Представление о ценностных ориентациях незнакомого человека в зависимости от способа изображения его лица

The observers’ ideas about the value orientations of visual communicants were experimentally studied. The subjects were sequentially presented in random order with the faces of people depicted in photographs and artistic portraits. It was required, on the basis of a list of terminal and instrumental value orientations (M. Rokeach), first to evaluate one’s own beliefs, then the demonstrated characters. It is shown that the integral profiles of value ideas about personalities depicted in portraits and photos are well matched, have a similar structure and similar scores. The beliefs of characters in portraits are statistically higher than those in photographs. The effect is preserved when the values are differentiated by categories. Significant differences were obtained in relation to the following values: terminal values — Cognition, Mature love, Material wellbeing, Beauty, Happy family life, Pleasures; instrumental — Goodupbringing, Education, Diligence, Tolerance, Sensitivity, Cheerfulness. The observers’ ideas about their own values differ significantly from the value orientations of the depicted people and have little effect on their assessments.

Miłość – świadectwo osobowej dojrzałości. Perspektywa filozoficzno-pedagogiczna

Love: An Indicator of Personal Maturity. A Philosophical and Pedagogical Perspective The article is a philosophical analysis of the problem of love from the perspective of human maturity. It aims to recall the philosophical theses (including those by Aristotle, Pieper, Plato, and Wojtyla) that are pedagogically oriented. The article consists of six parts, arranged in six questions, which allow us to define love as a pedagogically desirable attitude. The ontic factors of love are primarily considered, but so too is the contemporary cultural situation that constitutes a context of human relationships. The determinants of this context are individualism, consumerism, metaphysical indifference, and more recently also pandemic-induced isolationism. In Part 1, love is defined as the „being together” of people governed by a personalistic norm. In Part 2, the emphasis is on its corporeal-sensual-spiritual complexity and, in particular, on the aptitude of the will and the intellect. Part 3 considers the principle of love: love is governed by an affirmation, not of a personal feature (or set of features), but of the person’s existence as a person. In Part 4, love is analyzed in terms of its inherent aspect of giving: giving to someone and being given to. Attention is drawn to the need to combine both attitudes in mature love. Part 5 is about friendship, the most perfect form of love. It is noted that although it binds a small group of people (it is exclusive), it also has a socially-oriented vector. Part 6 is devoted to the issue of the deficit of love (indifference, hatred) and its sources in the decline of existential thinking among contemporary people.

Disputes regarding the sacral dimension of marriage in Poland from 1945-1948

Poland in the latter half of the 20th century was a place where the Christian vision of the world struggled with the Marxist vision and the totalitarian political system that stemmed from it. The civil law that regulated entering into marriage and its consequences was one of the key areas of dispute. This paper presents the origin of the conflict started by the act of 25 September 1945, which introduced new regulations, contrary to the centuries-old tradition based on the Christian axiology. Civil relationships and the permissibility of divorce were their main points. The Church responded with a pastoral letter – the first one since the end of the war – defending the sacramental nature of marriage. It emphasised the unique dignity of the marriage of the man and the woman, based on mature love, which leads to creating a family and building a community.

Gender differences in patient-perceived changes to the system of values after a cancer diagnosis

ObjectiveThe objective of the presented study was to investigate gender differences in the changes of value systems after a cancer diagnosis. MethodsIn the study, we used the Polish adaptation of the Rokeach Value Survey and compared within-subject differences in the obtained results from before (retrospective) and after patients' cancer diagnosis. In the analysis, we used the Aranowska ω Coefficient of Choice and Single-Sample t-test statistics. ResultsGenerally, after cancer diagnosis communal values gained, and agentic - lost importance regardless of patients’ gender. However, we found statistically significant effects of gender in value system changes, namely agency values (“independent” and “intellectual”) become less important for men than women, while the communal value “Mature love” was placed higher by men than women. ConclusionThe results of the study confirm our initial hypothesis about significant gender differences in the changes of the value system. Practice implicationsObtained knowledge can be used to better predict patient motivation and behavior in the face of oncological treatment. It is important that gender differences are considered in the process of cancer patients treatment. It can be beneficial for communication between a doctor and a patient and for counseling regarding coping with the disease.

Wartość „dojrzała miłość” w systemie wartości młodzieży

As regards the axiological hierarchy, the love-as-a-gift is particularly important in interperso- nal relations. It means the value of a person-as-a-gift to another person. The complete experience of love between a man and a woman demands its ethical dimension. Its natural fulfilment is marriage as self-giving. Studies conducted among high school youth with the use of Milton Rokeach's RVS Scale, confirm that the value of mature love in the group of terminal values, and the value of loving in the group of instrumental values are highly cherished. The leading (central) position of the analysed values indicates their impact upon young people's behaviour.

“On Nomadic Shores Inward”: Harry Martinson’s Journey to Late-Life Suicide

The aim of this study was to explore the unconscious dimensions of suicide as conveyed by the Swedish writer Harry Martinson, who took his life in 1978, four years after having received the Nobel Prize in Literature. A psychoanalytically informed “listening” to Martinson comprised a close reading of his writings, reflection on my total response to the material, the application of psychoanalytic hypotheses on severe depression and suicide-nearness, and the study of biographical sources. The dramatic fluctuations of Martinson’s self-regard were noted, as was the juxtaposition of opposites in his poetry: darkness that seeps through observations of the beauty of nature and man or the reverse, a gleam of love that defuses the cruelty of the world. Martinson’s drive to communicate with himself and others by talking and writing, to find auxiliary objects compensating for the traumatic losses of his childhood, and to realize mature love in adulthood was understood as a counterforce to self-destructiveness and threatening narcissistic disintegration. Pressured by negative reactions to the Nobel, which overlay decades of envy and political critique from colleagues, whose support he coveted, Martinson’s aggressivity—reflecting the near soul-murder of his early life—exploded in his suicide.

Family as a Source of Forming Axiological System of Youth. Coherence Between Value Systems of Parents and Children

The paper examines the importance of the family as an educational environment for the formation of the value system of the young generation. It is an outcome of cyclical research on the values of the younger and older generation in the Świętokrzyskie Voivodeship in Poland. The research data refer to the value examination questionnaire "100 Sentences - 100 Opinions" by Mirosław J. Szymański and the Value Scale by Milton Rokeach. The results confirm significant similarity of axiological systems for both respondent groups. The comparison of research results from three study stages (1994, 2003 and 2017) proves that the values systems in both younger and older generation are more constant than variable. Therefore, it can be concluded that in spite of disruptions experienced by a contemporary family, it is still considered the source of principles and values for a younger generation. The author proves that the first positions in the young people's and their parents axiological systems are held by the allocentric and prosocial values. This is also confirmed by the appreciation of the value of "true friendship" and "mature love”. It is beyond doubt that these values make it possible today to establish close and rewarding relationships that are extremely helpful to the sense of security and recognition. Furthermore, the studies prove that the participants in both research groups perceived the civic and material values as least important. The research studies a rather moderate acceptance by the respondents of the views representing family values. Young people in particular, still refer to the family with reluctance, criticising the various areas of the family's life, and they do not hesitate to point out the factors that disorganise the life of this community. They also clearly indicate their expectations of the family and, as can be anticipated, construct their own visions of the family. Although there are some changes in the order of values, they are not clear enough to suggest that the hierarchy of values and reference to family values of younger and older respondents has changed significantly over the years. The results with regard to the meaning of the family as a source of the young generation's values somewhat undermine the common theses about the little impact of family socialisation on the development and upbringing of the young generation and the loss of the family's basic duties.

Very ardent in words and frank in thoughts (touches to the boigraphy of Ulas Samchuk)

The epistolary of the writer is an important material for literary studies. He retains a powerful biographical potential, has a cultural weight and, losing the status of privacy and acquires the status of documentary evidence of a particular era. Letters allow you to feel the artist as a person, delve into his inner world, learn something special about his worldview, emotional movements of the soul, and penetrate the secret of the creative laboratory. For the first time, the poetics of Ulas Samchuk’s intimate letters is analysed in the article; an attempt is made to add essential details to the psychological portrait of the writer. The author described the thematic content of love letters, their mood and expression, revealed the writer’s understanding of the concept of «love» and its meaning in the life of a person. The emotive space of the love epistolary is associated with the author and his beloved. The letters contain precise auto-characteristics of the writer related to the realization of his own artistic mission. The writer expressed his attitude to the artistic tastes of his chosen one, appreciated the organic combination of sensuality and intellectualism in her paintings. The mature love of U. Samchuk showed a deep personal transformation of the writer, made an ennobling and harmonizing influence on the work of this period. During this time, two books of memoirs and three novels were created and published, one novel and two plays were completed. The writer’s love letters made it possible to assess the degree of autobiography of the novel «On Solid Land» (1967), including finding in the work undoubted elements of autobiography. An intimate epistolary gave unique evidence of where the writer got his inspiration for fruitful work in the 1950s-1960s, what were the prerequisites and mechanisms of the creative process while working on a novel from the life of Ukrainian emigration in Canada.

Poczucie jakości życia i hierarchia wartości – różnice między studentami kierunków społecznych i technicznych

The analysis of literature concerning of theory of values hierarchy by M. Rokeach and model of the quality of life by B. Mróz allowed to creation of research hypotheses. Model MOA, the Sense of Life Quality Questionnaire, and the Value Scale were used in order to raise data base for a verification which came from 126 students. The main goal of the work was confirmed and it states that the level of quality of life differentiates the students pedagogic and electronic in terms of the sense of life quality and the hierarchy of values. Results analysis showed that the strongest predictor of the general sense of life quality were variables such as: „health”, „providing financial support for the family” and „mature love”. The research implications that contained possible preventive activities and the possibilities of future research in this area are also important aspects of the work. Key words: quality of life, hierarchy of values, students, MOA, activities

Green May in Against Women Unconstant

Abstract Cautiously attributed to Geoffrey Chaucer, the anonymous balade Against Women Unconstant criticizes an unnamed lady for her “newefangelnesse” and “unstedfastnesse,” culminating in the refrain, “In stede of blew, thus may ye were al grene.” Proposing a new punctuation of the refrain, “In stede of blew—thus, May, ye were al grene,” and using medieval color symbolism, this study offers an alternative reading of the poem, arguing that the depiction of the female figure herself as “al grene,” rather than as wearing it, constructs her as a complex personified image of May. The color green characterizes May's love according to the traditional associations of springtime renewal and youth, but also according to the color's negative aspects of the hunter's predation as well as destruction, decay, and death. The balade's speaker takes his leave of the unstable, changeable love and lust of youth associated with May for a mature and stable love symbolized by blue, the color of lawful, chaste marriage and middle age.

The system of values and styles of success in the medical career: A longitudinal study.

The purpose of the study was to investigate the relation between system values during medical education and styles of success in the medical career. The participants were first examined when they applied to the medical school. Questionnaires were given to these students each academic year. Medical doctors who had participated in the first phase of the study completed a questionnaire 4 years after their graduation, too. The baseline questionnaire measured the system values. The follow-up questionnaire included measures of quality of life, work stress and burnout, satisfaction with medicine as a career and professional competency. The identified 3 groups of students representing 3 types of careers had been different regarding their preferred terminal values and instrumental values. Out of 3 groups, 2 presented a high risk of burnout. What is more the life goals (terminal values) are relatively stable, but preferable modes of behavior (instrumental values) are likely to change. The most important differences between students who may suffer from burnout later as doctors and those who are at a lower risk are e.g., family security, freedom, happiness, mature love, self-respect, social recognition and wisdom. The Rokeach Value Survey may be applied to identify specific tendencies in the development of medical career. The obtained results may be used by the medical school admission officers as well as resident selection committees in order to identify candidates who may be at risk of professional difficulties. Authors can identify during medical education which student will be at risk of professional burnout after studies. Thus there could be a selection of interventions directed toward differentiated groups of students, e.g.: supplying them with proper coping vs. guiding them, to increase life satisfaction and productivity. Int J Occup Med Environ Health 2018;31(6):823-835.