prof. dr hab. Tadeusz BORYS \u2013 Uniwersytet Zielonog\u00f3rski, Instytut Nauk o Zarz\u0105dzaniu i Jako\u015bci, ul. Podg\u00f3rna 50, 65-246 Zielona G\u00f3ra, Polska, e-mail: t.borys@wez.uz.zgora.pl<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Received 2.06.2026. Accepted 9.06.2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n
pp. 2-20<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Abstract<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Purpose: <\/strong>This article is the second part of the publication, in which I have attempted to present an extremely rich set of perspectives through which SELF\u00ad-destruction can be viewed as a multidimensional and interdisciplinary phenomenon. It is this multidimensionality that prompted me to present various approaches to the complex structure of human SELF-destruction in two thematically compact and at the same time complementary parts of viewing this phenomenon from different perspectives. In the first part [5] I divided the existing or postulated models of viewing SELF-destruction into two groups. In the first group of models, which dominates in theory and practice, the direction of implication from effect to cause is assumed, and that is why I have called them \u201creverse\u201d models, in short \u2013 \u201cfrom effect\u201d, and in the second group, the opposite implication is assumed, the essence of which is explained by the cause-and-effect analysis. The preventive potential of the latter group of implications has led me to call these models “classic” (from cause to effect), or in short \u2013 \u201cfrom the cause\u201d. I also pointed out that the proposed division of models is essentially based on two different logics for explaining SELF-destruction. In this more analytical part, I have subordinated its content to the answers to the following three important questions for the quality of human life: (1) What are the existential symptoms of SELF-destruction? \u2013 i.e. what are the causes and effects at the first level of the cascade of human self-destruction; (2) what are the psychological symptoms of SELF-destruction? \u2013 i.e. what are the causes and effects at the second level; (3) what are the neurobiological symptoms of SELF-destruction ? \u2013 i.e. what are the causes and effects at the third level. The answers to these questions illustrate a cascade (stairs) that will reveal more specifically the next levels (layers) of the explanation of SELF-destruction in the proposed model from cause \uf0e8 to effect. It is this cascade of layers of SELF-destruction that will be the subject of the second part of this article. Keywords<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n quality of life, SELF-DESTRUCTION, models, cause, effect<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" prof. dr hab. Tadeusz BORYS \u2013 Uniwersytet Zielonog\u00f3rski, Instytut Nauk o Zarz\u0105dzaniu i Jako\u015bci, ul. Podg\u00f3rna 50, 65-246 Zielona G\u00f3ra, Polska, e-mail: t.borys@wez.uz.zgora.pl Received 2.06.2026. Accepted 9.06.2026 pp. 2-20 Abstract Purpose: This article is the second part of the publication, in which I have attempted to present an extremely rich set of perspectives through which […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[122],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/problemyjakosci.com.pl\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1462"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/problemyjakosci.com.pl\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/problemyjakosci.com.pl\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/problemyjakosci.com.pl\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/problemyjakosci.com.pl\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1462"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/problemyjakosci.com.pl\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1462\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1463,"href":"https:\/\/problemyjakosci.com.pl\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1462\/revisions\/1463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/problemyjakosci.com.pl\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/problemyjakosci.com.pl\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/problemyjakosci.com.pl\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
Research methodology: <\/strong>In the article, as in the first part, I used the method of logical analysis in relation to models \u201cfrom the cause\u201d and a review of the literature, taking into account the interdisciplinarity of the phenomenon of SELF-destruction.
Cognitive value:<\/strong> The features of the cognitive novelty of this study should be seen primarily in the presented cascading and integrated approach to SELF-destruction, based on cause-and-effect analysis \u2013 an approach very rarely presented in the literature on the subject, in which a disintegrated view of the phenomenon of SELF-destruction prevails. This prompted me to present a deeper analysis of the cause-and-effect model of this phenomenon. In my opinion, it is a more perspective view than the \u201cfrom the effect\u201d model, because it takes as its starting point the original cause of SELF-destruction, which is existential in nature with a clear axiological context. It is from this highest level of the cascade that the other two levels \u2013 psychological and neurobiological \u2013 originate in the proposed three-modular approach. This enabled me to integrate the \u201cfrom the cause\u201d model with the \u201cfrom the effect\u201d model in the next step.
Conclusions: <\/strong>The main conclusions of the article are found in the final part of the essay in the form of several conclusions, referring to the previously formulated research questions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n