V predlagaemoy knige predstavleno teoreticheskoe opisanie kategorii «zhiznennyy mir», ee izuchenie v razlichnykh naukakh o cheloveke, strukturnye i soderzhatel"nye kharakteristiki, dinamika vozniknoveniya i razvitiya. Takzhe delaetsya analiz razlichnykh podkhodov k vydeleniyu tipologii zhiznennykh mirov, na osnove kotorogo predlagaetsya sobstvennaya tipologiya, vklyuchayushchaya chetyre tipa: realisticheskiy, tsennostnyy, gedonisticheskiy i tvorcheskiy, otlichayushchiesya drug ot druga soderzhatel"no. Privodyatsya rezul"taty empiricheskoy proverki gipotezy ob ustoychivosti zhiznennogo mira ot yunosheskogo do zrelogo vozrasta. Privodyatsya dokazatel"stva togo, chto kategoriya zhiznennogo mira imeet paradigmal"noe znachenie. Kniga mozhet byt" interesna ne tol"ko psikhologam, studentam psikhologicheskikh fakul"tetov, no vsem chitatelyam, interesuyushchimsya psikhologiey.