The science of meaning in life

LA King, JA Hicks - Annual review of psychology, 2021 - annualreviews.org
Meaning in life has long been a mystery of human existence. In this review, we seek to
demystify this construct. Focusing on the subjective experience of meaning in life, we review …

Trajectories of resilience and mental distress to global major disruptions

SK Schäfer, AM Kunzler, R Kalisch, O Tüscher… - Trends in Cognitive …, 2022 - cell.com
The COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in a major societal disruption, raising the question of
how people can maintain or quickly regain their mental health (ie, be resilient) during such …

[LIBRO][B] Working with spiritual struggles in psychotherapy: From research to practice

KI Pargament, JJ Exline - 2021 - books.google.com
Does my life have any deeper meaning? Does God really care about me? How can I find
and follow my moral compass? What do I do when my faith is shaken to the core? Spiritual …

Significant work is about self-realization and broader purpose: Defining the key dimensions of meaningful work

F Martela, AB Pessi - Frontiers in psychology, 2018 - frontiersin.org
Research on meaningful work has proliferated in recent years, with an increasing
understanding of the centrality of meaningfulness for work-related motivation, commitment …

Meaning is about mattering: Evaluating coherence, purpose, and existential mattering as precursors of meaning in life judgments.

V Costin, VL Vignoles - Journal of personality and social …, 2020 - psycnet.apa.org
When people judge their lives as meaningful, what is this judgment about? Drawing on
recent tripartite theoretical accounts of meaning in life (MIL), we tested the separate …

Purpose in life: A resolution on the definition, conceptual model, and optimal measurement.

TB Kashdan, FR Goodman, PE McKnight… - American …, 2024 - psycnet.apa.org
Theoretically, purpose serves as a basic dimension of healthy psychological functioning and
an important protective factor from psychopathology. Theory alone, however, is insufficient to …

The multidimensional existential meaning scale: A tripartite approach to measuring meaning in life

LS George, CL Park - The Journal of Positive Psychology, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
To address conceptual difficulties and advance research on meaning in life (MIL), it may be
useful to adopt a tripartite view of meaning as consisting of comprehension, purpose, and …

The making of violent extremists

A Kruglanski, K Jasko, D Webber… - Review of General …, 2018 - journals.sagepub.com
The authors outline a psychological model of extremism and analyze violent extremism as a
special case of it. Their significance quest theory identifies 3 general drivers of violent …

Meaning in life and resilience to stressors

BD Ostafin, T Proulx - Anxiety, Stress, & Co**, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
ABSTRACT Background: and Objectives: This research examined whether life meaning
promotes resilience to stressor-related psychological distress and repetitive negative …

Existential positive psychology and integrative meaning therapy

PTP Wong - International Review of Psychiatry, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
The unprecedented changes in our society because of COVID-19 and the fourth industrial
revolution (4IR) shows that our healthcare system and the medical approach to …