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 …

Toward a general theory of motivation: Problems, challenges, opportunities, and the big picture

RF Baumeister - Motivation and Emotion, 2016‏ - Springer
Motivation theories have tended to focus on specific motivations, leaving open the
intellectually and scientifically challenging problem of how to construct a general theory of …

Reaction to the COVID-19 pandemic: The influence of meaning in life, life satisfaction, and assumptions on world orderliness and positivity

J Trzebiński, M Cabański… - Loss and Trauma in the …, 2024‏ - taylorfrancis.com
The goal of the research was to measure the impact of the meaning in life, life satisfaction,
and the beliefs in orderliness and positivity of the social world on emotional and cognitive …

Exploring the association between coronavirus stress, meaning in life, psychological flexibility, and subjective well-being

G Arslan, KA Allen - Psychology, health & medicine, 2022‏ - Taylor & Francis
There has been a call to action from much of the community to urgently investigate stress
and well-being during the global health crisis instigated by COVID-19. This study seeks to …

Coronavirus stress, meaningful living, optimism, and depressive symptoms: A study of moderated mediation model

G Arslan, M Yıldırım - Australian Journal of Psychology, 2021‏ - Taylor & Francis
Objective: In the world, the COVID-19 pandemic has led to public mental health stress,
anxiety, panic, and behavioural disorders. The purpose of the present study was to examine …

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 …

Meaningful living, resilience, affective balance, and psychological health problems among Turkish young adults during coronavirus pandemic

M Yıldırım, G Arslan, PTP Wong - Current Psychology, 2022‏ - Springer
The present study sought to investigate the mediating effect of the affective balance and
resilience on the association between meaningful living and psychological health problems …

Meaning in life as comprehension, purpose, and mattering: Toward integration and new research questions

LS George, CL Park - Review of general psychology, 2016‏ - journals.sagepub.com
To advance meaning in life (MIL) research, it is crucial to integrate it with the broader
meaning literature, which includes important additional concepts (eg, meaning frameworks) …

[HTML][HTML] An international study on psychological co** during COVID-19: Towards a meaning-centered co** style

N Eisenbeck, DF Carreno, PTP Wong, JA Hicks… - International journal of …, 2022‏ - Elsevier
Abstract Background/Objective This study examined the role of different psychological
co** mechanisms in mental and physical health during the initial phases of the COVID-19 …

[كتاب][B] Nostalgia: A psychological resource

C Routledge - 2015‏ - taylorfrancis.com
Nostalgia is a topic that most lay people are familiar with, but, until recently, few social
scientists understood. Once viewed as a disease, nostalgia is now considered to be an …