Overview
- Argues that basic needs fulfilment is key to the development of the self
- Discusses how wellbeing initiatives should further emphasize early childhood experience
- Extends the BUCET list proposed by Susan Fiske
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Basic needs fulfilment is fundamental to becoming human and reaching one’s potential. Extending the BUCET list proposed by Susan Fiske - which includes belonging, understanding, control/competence, autonomy, self-enhancement, trust, purpose and life satisfaction - this book demonstrates that the fulfilment of basic needs predicts adult physical and mental health, as well as sociality and morality. The authors suggest that meeting basic needs in childhood vitally shapes one’s trajectory for self-actualization, and that initiatives aimed at human wellbeing should include a greater emphasis on early childhood experience. Through contemporaneous and retrospective research in childhood, the authors argue that basic need-fulfilment is key to the development of the self and the possibility of reaching one’s full potential. This book will be of interest to scholars of human wellbeing and societal flourishing, as well as to health workers and educators.
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Table of contents (5 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Editors and Affiliations
About the editor
Darcia Narvaez is Professor of Psychology at the University of Notre Dame, USA. Her research interests are focused around moral development and flourishing across the lifespan.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Basic Needs, Wellbeing and Morality
Book Subtitle: Fulfilling Human Potential
Editors: Darcia Narvaez
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-97734-8
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Behavioral Science and Psychology, Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-97733-1Published: 25 October 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-97734-8Published: 11 October 2018
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVI, 173
Number of Illustrations: 4 b/w illustrations
Topics: Developmental Psychology, Infancy and Early Childhood Development, Personality and Social Psychology, Self and Identity, Ethics