The Relative Impact of Personality Traits, Meaningful Occupation and Occupational Value on Meaning in Life and Life Satisfaction
Occupational science has held a peripheral interest in the role personality traits may serve in influencing people's engagement in occupation. Like occupation, personality has been identified as a significant factor in explaining personal well-being within the social sciences. Recent models implicate personality, personal projects or life tasks, and personal narrative as three essential layers for understanding human experience. The present study explored how personality traits are related to meaningful occupation and occupational value (two complementary perspectives on occupational experience) and to well-being. In a sample of 224 undergraduate and graduate students from a Mountain-West university in the USA, measures of the Big Five personality traits, life satisfaction and meaning in life were evaluated in relation to the Engagement in Meaningful Activities Survey (EMAS) and the Occupational Value Assessment with Predefined Items (OVal-pd). This study demonstrated that personality variables help to ex...
The aim of this paper is to introduce the concept of human ::: enhancement, its methods and its relation to personal identity. ::: Also several approaches to personal identity will be described. ::: Transhumanism is a special think tank supporting human ::: enhancement through modern technologies and some of its ::: representatives claim, that even great changes to human ::: organisms will not affect their personal identity. I will ::: briefly describe the most important means of human enhancement ::: and consider the problem of personal identity for each of them ::: separately.