Life is pretty meaningful.

SJ Heintzelman, LA King - American psychologist, 2014‏ - psycnet.apa.org
The human experience of meaning in life is widely viewed as a cornerstone of well-being
and a central human motivation. Self-reports of meaning in life relate to a host of important …

When death is good for life: Considering the positive trajectories of terror management

KE Vail III, J Juhl, J Arndt, M Vess… - Personality and …, 2012‏ - journals.sagepub.com
Research derived from terror management theory (TMT) has shown that people's efforts to
manage the awareness of death often have deleterious consequences for the individual and …

[كتاب][B] Posttraumatic growth: Theory, research, and applications

RG Tedeschi, J Shakespeare-Finch, K Taku - 2018‏ - taylorfrancis.com
Posttraumatic Growth reworks and overhauls the seminal 2006 Handbook of Posttraumatic
Growth. It provides a wide range of answers to questions concerning knowledge of …

The relationship between death anxiety and severity of mental illnesses

RE Menzies, L Sharpe… - British Journal of Clinical …, 2019‏ - Wiley Online Library
Objectives Death anxiety has been implicated theoretically and empirically in mental health
and has been proposed to be a transdiagnostic construct. However, it has largely been …

Threat and defense: From anxiety to approach

E Jonas, I McGregor, J Klackl, D Agroskin… - … in experimental social …, 2014‏ - Elsevier
The social psychological literature on threat and defense is fragmented. Groups of
researchers have focused on distinct threats, such as mortality, uncertainty, uncontrollability …

Social identities promote well‐being because they satisfy global psychological needs

KH Greenaway, T Cruwys, SA Haslam… - European Journal of …, 2016‏ - Wiley Online Library
Social identities are known to improve well‐being, but why is this? We argue that this is
because they satisfy basic psychological needs, specifically, the need to belong, the need …

To nostalgize: Mixing memory with affect and desire

C Sedikides, T Wildschut, C Routledge, J Arndt… - … in experimental social …, 2015‏ - Elsevier
Nostalgia is a self-conscious, bittersweet but predominantly positive and fundamentally
social emotion. It arises from fond memories mixed with yearning about one's childhood …

[كتاب][B] Second wave positive psychology: Embracing the dark side of life

I Ivtzan, T Lomas, K Hefferon, P Worth - 2015‏ - taylorfrancis.com
Positive psychology is currently equated with theory and research on the positive aspects of
life. The reality could not be further from the truth. Positive psychology investigates and …

[PDF][PDF] Theories of personality

DP Schultz, SE Schultz, M Enos - 2009‏ - academia.edu
Each edition of a textbook must be as vital, dynamic, and responsive to change as the field it
covers. To remain an effective teaching instrument, it must reflect the development of the …

[كتاب][B] The psychology of human values

GR Maio - 2016‏ - taylorfrancis.com
This original and engaging book advocates an unabashedly empirical approach to
understanding human values: abstract ideals that we consider important, such as freedom …