Sense of life and success

Abstract

This paper investigates the concept of success with people and situations that make them feel successful and the strategies they use to do in order to establish therapeutic strategies and interventions that are more conducive to people feeling successful and therefore met. The research was conducted from a qualitative perspective, with the humanistic approach, using the phenomenological method. In order to relate success with the meaning of life is taken to be the achievement of an economically satisfactory standard of living and balanced social, personal and professional life with a sense of implicit or explicit that the person owns. The technique used was the in-depth interview. We interviewed 13 participants, selected in advance, which met the characteristics considered a successful person (professional adults aged 25 to 60 years, financially stable, with a balance in their work, family, health and social relations). The
theoretical basis is taken mainly from Carl Rogers and Viktor Frankl. Building a meaning of life allows people to feel more satisfied with themselves in all their activities. Finding mechanisms to build this sense, the psychologist provides a valuable work both in the field of human development and psychotherapy. Among the findings was found that both men and women agree with the concept of success, likewise, that family and pleasant working activity are factors in the meaning of life.