Kontingenz in der Gegenwartsgesellschaft

Holzinger, Markus

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“…An experience of contingency is caused by a life event that conflicts with the person’s worldview and/or ultimate life goals and raises existential questions (Bury, 1982; Holzinger, 2015; Kruizinga et al, 2013; Scherer-Rath, 2013; Scherer-Rath et al, 2012; Van Dalen et al, 2012; Wuchterl, 2012). An experience of contingency can be seen as a biographical disruption: a “breach of trust” that urges the person to reinterpret one’s own life story, including the life event as a part of it (Giddens, 1990; Scherer-Rath, 2014).…”

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Narrative meaning making and integration: Toward a better understanding of the way falling ill influences quality of life

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Falling seriously ill is often experienced as a life event that causes conflict with people's personal goals and expectations in life and evokes existential questions. This article presents a new humanities approach to the way people make meaning of such events and how this influences their quality of life. Incorporating theories on contingency, narrative identity, and quality of life, we developed a theoretical model entailing the concepts life event, worldview, ultimate life goals, experience of contingency, narrative meaning making, narrative integration, and quality of life. We formulate testable hypotheses and describe the self-report questionnaire that was developed based on the model.

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Section: Theoretical Modelmentioning

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Narrative meaning making and integration: Toward a better understanding of the way falling ill influences quality of life

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“…First, thinking about the future in a scientific way means to be transparent and clear on the worldview taken as a basis. Second, it is very useful for a SEF to be clear in one's mind that our world is not deterministic, not eschatological, not easy to understand, and of course not to predict because for example of contingency in human behaviour [65,66] and emergence in social systems [67]. In short, a worldview with a clear reference to complex structures and complex dynamics is more adequate for a SEF than a simplistic worldview because there are always more things and possibilities of change that we can grasp, oversee, understand or know.…”

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A scientific enquiry into the future

Gabriel¹

2013

Eur J Futures Res

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Thinking about the future in a scientific manner is often characterised by an illusion of knowledge, leading to precarious one-sidedness and false conclusions. The reasons for this are misinterpretations of core scientific concepts as well as vested interests in knowledge creation and scientific advice; these misinterpretations and interfering interests can prevail because there is no coherent set of rules on what a scientific enquiry into the future could look like. To provide a foundation for further discussion, this article takes the knowledge illusion seriously and drafts some epistemological concepts and methodological rules that could bridge this gap. Ways to think about the future in a scientific way correspond to scientific anticipation instead of knowledge creation, to a complex analytical worldview instead of determinism, to discourse and scepticism instead of critical rationalism, to illustrative thought experiments instead of explanatory prognoses, and to plausibility instead of probability. The concepts and rules for a scientific enquiry into the future developed in this article can help to clearly differentiate between multiple prognoses and scenarios, and to evaluate scenarios by scientific means.

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“…Nevertheless, appropriate, effective, and brief interventions to address spiritual concerns are still lacking. One of the key-elements in these spiritual concerns is the experience of contingency: the experience that something is neither a necessity, nor an impossibility, everything could have been different [12]. Contingency will be experienced when it is problematic to incorporate an event into one’s story of life.…”

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“…Their life lines are suddenly disrupted, which necessitates a reinterpretation of their lives. This experience is called experience of contingency [12]. Experiences of contingency prompt people to shape a meaningful relation to the situations they are confronted with.…”

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The life in sight application study (LISA): design of a randomized controlled trial to assess the role of an assisted structured reflection on life events and ultimate life goals to improve quality of life of cancer patients

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BackgroundIt is widely recognized that spiritual care plays an important role in physical and psychosocial well-being of cancer patients, but there is little evidence based research on the effects of spiritual care. We will conduct a randomized controlled trial on spiritual care using a brief structured interview scheme supported by an e-application. The aim is to examine whether an assisted reflection on life events and ultimate life goals can improve quality of life of cancer patients.Methods/DesignBased on the findings of our previous research, we have developed a brief interview model that allows spiritual counsellors to explore, explicate and discuss life events and ultimate life goals with cancer patients. To support the interview, we created an e-application for a PC or tablet. To examine whether this assisted reflection improves quality of life we will conduct a randomized trial. Patients with advanced cancer not amenable to curative treatment options will be randomized to either the intervention or the control group. The intervention group will have two consultations with a spiritual counsellor using the interview scheme supported by the e-application. The control group will receive care as usual. At baseline and one and three months after randomization all patients fill out questionnaires regarding quality of life, spiritual wellbeing, empowerment, satisfaction with life, anxiety and depression and health care consumption.DiscussionHaving insight into one’s ultimate life goals may help integrating a life event such as cancer into one’s life story. This is the first randomized controlled trial to evaluate the role of an assisted structured reflection on ultimate life goals to improve patients’ quality of life and spiritual well being. The intervention is brief and based on concepts and skills that spiritual counsellors are familiar with, it can be easily implemented in routine patient care and incorporated in guidelines on spiritual care.Trial registrationThe study is registered at ClinicalTrials.gov: NCT01830075

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Kontingenz in der Gegenwartsgesellschaft

Cited by 25 publications

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Narrative meaning making and integration: Toward a better understanding of the way falling ill influences quality of life

Narrative meaning making and integration: Toward a better understanding of the way falling ill influences quality of life

A scientific enquiry into the future

The life in sight application study (LISA): design of a randomized controlled trial to assess the role of an assisted structured reflection on life events and ultimate life goals to improve quality of life of cancer patients

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