Sense of life, quality of life, integrity of a personality, mental health, personality of a teacher

The aim of the paper is to point out to the facts that accompany all of us throughout our lives which can significantly influence the quality of our lives. We focus on the basic human motive “to experience a meaningful life”. The extent to which one is successful when looking for a sense of his/her own existence is reflected on his/her overall health, his/her effort to achieve a certain goal and his/her action. We present some findings from our recent research study which attempts to reveal the level of (subjectively) experienced meaningfulness in one’s life. Results were obtained from a sample of Czech elementary school teachers and students of pedagogical studies. One aim of the study was to discover any connections (relationship) between experiencing meaningfulness, the age and sex of the participants. The set included 120 people in total (60 men and 60 women, out of which half were teachers and the other half were students). Our focus on the job of a teacher was motivated by the fact that a teacher’s character, psyche functioning and integrity of a teacher’s personality are extremely important in their influence on the young generation.