he present study examined the mediator role of calling in the relation between attitudes related to lifelong learning and life satisfaction in a school teacher sample. 318 teachers of elementary, junior high, and high school completed the questionnaire through internet survey. Mediation analysis for 234 teachers (Mage = 46.68; 155 men, 79 women) showed that calling significantly mediated the link between attitudes related to lifelong learning and life satisfaction. This result suggests that higher levels of autonomy-improvement of teachers relates to life satisfaction via higher levels of calling. Limitations and implications for further study are discussed.

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Psychotherapy respects subjectivity, but it is difficult to see the evidence for why a basis in subjectivity is inevitable. Therefore, this text elucidates the evidence for this basis in subjectivity through an analysis of Edmund Husserl’s phenomenology. The results exhibited the theoretical limitations of positivism and showed the epistemological and teleological inevitability of a basis in subjectivity. Moreover, this text indicated that a more thorough elucidation of the evidence for a basis in subjectivity can be obtained by bridging the gap between Husserl’s phenomenology and Eugen Gendlin's phenomenology.

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