Mattering at the Intersection of Psychology, Philosophy, and Politics
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11054519 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Isaac Prilleltensky (0000-0003-1805-2354, Department of Educational and Psychological Studies University of Miami Coral Gables FL USA, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 65 |
| Issue | 1-2 |
| Pages | 16-34 |
| Publication date | 2020-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Journal of Community Psychology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0091-0562 • E-ISSN: 1573-2770 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1002/ajcp.12368 |
| PMID | 31407358 |
| OpenAlex | W2966971314 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 78 |
| References cited | 72 |
Mattering is an ideal state of affairs consisting of two complementary psychological experiences: feeling valued and adding value. Human beings can feel valued by, and add value to, self, others, work, and community. To make sure that the need for mattering is fulfilled, we must balance feeling valued with adding value. Moreover, we must balance adding value to self with adding value to others. Unfortunately, the dominant neoliberal philosophy does not support the values required to ensure the experience of mattering. Whereas a healthy and fair society would require equilibrium among values for personal, relational, and collective well‐being, the dominant philosophy in many parts of the world favors personal at the expense of relational and collective values. Neoliberal economic and social policies have resulted in diminished sense of mattering for millions of people. Some people respond to cultural pressures to achieve higher status by becoming depressive or aggressive. Some marginalized groups, in turn, support xenophobic, nationalistic, and populist policies in an effort to regain a sense of mattering. To make sure that everyone matters, we must align the psychology, philosophy, and politics of mattering. The political struggle for a just and equitable distribution of mattering takes place in social movements and the policy arena. The perils and promises of these efforts are considered
Balance (ability) · Community psychology · Feeling · Health psychology · Political philosophy · Political science · Politics · Public health · Sociology · Value (mathematics) · Academic and Historical Perspectives in Psychology · Community Health and Development · Cultural Differences and Values · Law · Psychology · Social Psychology
Parental expectations, academic stress and non-suicidal self-injury among Neet and JEE aspirants
“Us is all saints, but children matter less”
Then They Will Move on in Life”
Well-being balance and lived experiences
Personality, Cognition, and Adaptability to the Covid-19 Pandemic
Hegemony, Equilibrium and Counterpower
An Introduction, Review, and Conceptual Analysis of Mattering as an Essential Construct and an Essential Way of Life
What’s the Matter? Alcohol Use Risk Among Relatives of People with Mental Illness
Loneliness, Mental Health, and Suicidality in Japan, and the Protective Role of Mattering
The Missing Measure of Loneliness
Bridging the Gap of the Afri–Eurocentric Worldview Divide in a Postcolonial South Africa
Dignity in mental health care
Becoming a valued member of society
"Beyond the "Third Wave of Positive Psychology
Psychometric properties of the measure of achieved capabilities in homeless services
It’s More Than Just Exercise”
Twenty-One Reasons for Implementing the Act-Belong-Commit—‘ABCs of Mental Health’ Campaign
Plus 1 Is More Than 2
Part II
Staff attitudes to trauma-informed care for young people in NSW, Australia
How mattering-oriented teacher practices foster positive youth development
From compliance to responsiveness
Don't forget about customer magazines
Feeling Valued and Adding Value
Aspire to a Better Future
Understanding Why STEM Identity Matters Through Ecologies of (Dis)investment
Nudging Students to Success
Assessing a Culture of Belonging in a Higher Education Context
Feeling Important, Feeling Well. The Association Between Mattering and Well-being
From belonging to mattering to trust
Finding a way through the fog
Feeling valued and adding value
Belonging beyond the bell
Mattering on the margins
Social belonging, mattering and Neet status
Mattering in Danish out-of-home care
Too much or never enough
Drawing mattering into practice with comic strip dialogues
Mattering and social practice
Competence, mattering and belonging
Facing the (Political) Elephant in the Room
When the land leaves
School Well-Being From a Social Justice Perspective
Transforming vulnerability into empowerment
Social justice
I was told that people might hurt me”
Towards a contribution paradigm
Now I Understand why She Needs Our help”
Elevating Student Voices and Addressing Their Needs
Counter-memory and Memorials
Collective Action Under Repressive Conditions
Breaking Down Barriers to HIV Care for Gay and Bisexual Men and Transgender Women
Meaningfulness of Work for People Participating in Individual Placement and Support
Increasing Ties to Peers and Improving Social Emotional Outcomes
Psychometric properties and links with well-being and distress of an Arabic version of the anti-mattering scale in Lebanese adolescents
Initial Co‐Design Development of a Questionnaire to Measure Patient Preferences in a Danish Mental Healthcare Setting
Listening to Children's Need to Matter in Skipped Generation Migrant Households
Silence is a construction
Community participation among immigrants
Building Meaningful Community Advocacy for Ethnic‐based Health Equity
Trajectories of Youth's Helping From Adolescence into Adulthood
Community participation and subjective wellbeing among the immigrant population in Northern Italy
Sense of community, pathway to, or bridge from alienation
Mattering in the community
Assessing multidimensional mattering
The work experiences and needs of lone community psychologists
Counseling Psychologists and Behavioral Health
Cross-Racial Microaffirmations
The Role of Acceptance in Everyday Loneliness Among Adults with Serious Mental Illness
Framing openness
Factors Associated with Students’ Psychological Distress
Friends or not? Navigating the therapeutic bond in music therapy within Flexible Assertive Community Treatment—A qualitative interview study
Music therapy and social recovery in flexible assertive community treatment
Everyone Is Welcome, Always
Reflections on the Undercurrent of Participation in Collaborative Action Research
Family Relationships and Young Italian Adults' Well-Being
Reframing human rights-based approaches to the misuse of restraint. A binary approach is needed
"Health and meaning through "doings
Attachment and loss
The psychology of meaning.
Psychological Sense of Community
Social Exclusion
Self-Efficacy in Changing Societies
The principles of psychology.
Community Psychology
The Sum of Small Things
Self-Determination Theory
Making Meaning in Life
Wise interventions
Ostracism
The health gap
Life is pretty meaningful.
Perceived organizational support and employee diligence, commitment, and innovation.
Disrespect and the Experience of Injustice
Loneliness in Older Persons
Relationship of Childhood Abuse and Household Dysfunction to Many of the Leading Causes of Death in Adults
Perceived organizational support
Loneliness Matters
The Spirit Level
Threat to democracy
Attachment and Loss. Vol. 1. Attachment
Long Walk to Freedom
The Attachment System and Physiology in Adulthood
Mattering
Meaning-making, mattering, and thriving in community psychology
Sociometer theory and the pursuit of relational value
The Internal Reliability of a General Mattering Scale in Homeless Men
Values, assumptions, and practices
Values, assumptions, and practices
Employee Engagement and Well-Being
Robert D. Putnam, Bowling Alone
What Matters in the Measurement of Mattering
Sense of community-belonging and health-behaviour change in Canada
Liberals and Communitarians
Toward community
Taking Stock of the Diversity and Sense of Community Debate
Value‐Based Praxis in Community Psychology
Assessing Multidimensional Well-Being
The role of power in wellness, oppression, and liberation
Multiple senses of community and acculturation strategies among migrants
Social power and forms of change
The relationship between sense of community and subjective well-being
Teasing, rejection, and violence
Winners take all
The New Jim Crow
The principles of psychology
Meaning is about mattering
Wellness as Fairness
Social Cognitive Theory
Sense of community
The need to belong
Health Benefits of Volunteering in the Wisconsin Longitudinal Study
| Unique citing works | 78 |
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| Citations per year | 4,59 |
| Citation span | 2009 - 2026 (18) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 72 |