Value-semantic orientations and spiritual resources of health in higher education students
Abstract
This article presents some aspects of the spiritual health issue from the perspective of the resource approach. The multidirectional nature of the interrelations between the value-semantic orientations and the level of the spiritual resources of students’ individual health is established. Students who note the presence of the main goal in life have a higher level of individual health and the level of its spiritual resources: the proactive coping and the existential fulfillment of personality. Students who attach importance to the problem of the meaning of life demonstrate a lower level of individual health.
Keywords
health psychology, spiritual resources of health, proactivity, existential fulfillment, value-semantic orientations of students, purpose of life, meaning of life
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