Value Correlates of Existential Fulfilment of a Person at Higher Levels of Education

Psychological well-being is of great importance for future teachers, as the psychological state of their students will largely depend on it. The foundations of psychological well-being are represented by the concept of existential fulfillment as a personal generalized evaluation of life in terms of its consistency with person’s inner essence. The problem of the study is derived out of the lack of research about connectedness of existential fulfillment with personal values which define direction and decisions of a person's life. Ranking values by their importance and accessibility method and the existence scale were used to collect data from 118 postgraduate students aged 24-30 years. The results of statistical analysis showed that the level of existential fulfillment is generally independent from most personal values, and only some values are associated with existential fulfillment. Some values support high level of existential fulfillment, while others oppose it. Values of close relationships, namely love, friendship and a happy family life in their importance parameter are correlated with existential fulfilment. The more important these values are for a person, the higher his/her existential fulfillment is. On the opposite, the higher importance of the value “Wealth” and, to a lesser extent, the value “Freedom” the lesser is existential fulfillment. Some values were also identified, the high levels of the availability of which are also inversely related to the feeling of existential fulfillment, these include the values “Beauty of nature and art” and “Creativity”.

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