“Can One Put Faith and Work in the Same Sentence?” Faith Development and Vocation of a Female Leader in the Engineering Profession

Mayer, Claude–Hélène; Viviers, Rian

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“…Therefore, global wellbeing may depend on meeting our deep-seated yearnings for love, meaning, and faith. It seems reasonable to conclude that faith in God or a higher power, loving relationships, and meaningful work are essential for mental health (Mayer, 2017 , 2021a , b ; Mayer and Viviers, 2018 ; Mayer and Fouché, 2021 ) just as food, water, and air are essential for our physical health.…”

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Editorial: COVID-19 and Existential Positive Psychology (PP2.0): The New Science of Self-Transcendence

2021

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Editorial on the Research Topic COVID-19 and Existential Positive Psychology (PP2.0): The New Science of Self-TranscendenceCOVID-19 has changed everything. It has brought devastations and disruptions (Gallup, 2020; Harvard University, 2021), but in the midst of devastations there is transformation and innovation. This special issue of Frontiers provides an introduction to the new science of flourishing through suffering (Wong, 2021a) and a new vista of meaning-centered global wellbeing (Batthyany and Russo-Netzer, 2014;Wong, 2017a;DeAngelis, 2018). The transformative power of suffering can be seen at various levels.At the individual level, the adversity and lockdown from COVID-19 provide opportunities for business growth (Valinsky, 2020;Peek and Casarella, 2021) and personal transformation (Weir, 2020;Williams et al., 2021; Kim et al.). In short, it is possible that the worst of times can become the best of times for any individual with the necessary inner resources such as meaning, faith, courage, and creativity (Wong and Worth, 2017;Marano, 2021).At the institutional level, the ever-evolving coronavirus has laid bare the inadequacies of the current medical model and the need for change in government policies in funding and mental healthcare (Wong, 2021b). For example, we may need more grass-roots mental health education (International Network on Personal Meaning, 2019) and more accessibility to different kinds of qualified mental health providers which are currently not supported by governments and insurance companies. We may also need to consider a more humanistic-existential orientation toward mental health as advocated by Rollo May (Schlett, 2021) and Victor Frankl (Wong, 2021c,d).At the cultural level, the pandemic represents a wake-up call to the weaknesses of an individualist and pleasure-seeking society like America in combating the coronavirus (Friedman, 2020). More specially, the anti-vaccination movement in the name of personal freedom and liberty reveals the fault-line in democracy: freedom without personal and social responsibility may endanger public health in terms of rising COVID cases (Gerson, 2021) and new waves of the pandemic (Aiello, 2021). The freedom to pursue happiness and pleasure without responsibility may be killing Western democracy because democracy without responsibility may degenerate to nihilism or succumb to authoritarianism.

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Section: The Empirical Basis For the New Science Of Flourishing Through Sufferingmentioning

confidence: 99%

Editorial: COVID-19 and Existential Positive Psychology (PP2.0): The New Science of Self-Transcendence

2021

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“Can One Put Faith and Work in the Same Sentence?” Faith Development and Vocation of a Female Leader in the Engineering Profession

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Editorial: COVID-19 and Existential Positive Psychology (PP2.0): The New Science of Self-Transcendence

Editorial: COVID-19 and Existential Positive Psychology (PP2.0): The New Science of Self-Transcendence

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