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A multivariate analysis of the structural variability of existential noun phrases
Moderna Språk, 2023 The literature on there-existential construction (e.g. ‘there are no graves, son’) is extensive, especially those showing the complexity involved in its internal structure, meaning and interpretation.
Mayowa Akinlotan
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Illuminating Existential Meaning: A New Approach in the Study of Retirement
Qualitative Sociology Review, 2021 Current discussions on the importance of retirement are largely built on statistical analyses of longitudinal data showing that well-being seldom changes from before to after entering retirement, but is rather mainly dependent on the individual’s social ...
M. Bengtsson, Marita Flisbäck
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Death and science: the existential underpinnings of belief in intelligent design and discomfort with evolution. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2011 The present research examined the psychological motives underlying widespread support for intelligent design theory (IDT), a purportedly scientific theory that lacks any scientific evidence; and antagonism toward evolutionary theory (ET), a theory ...
Jessica L Tracy +2 more
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Meaning and Purpose in Life in Aging: A Scoping Review [PDF]
Psicologia: Teoria e Pesquisa, 2023 The feeling that life has meaning or purpose is essential for human beings. Absence of meaning can lead to an existential vacuum. Purpose in life, akin to meaning in life, derives from the humanistic psychology theory of Frankl, and they are considered ...
Vanessa Alonso +3 more
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Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 2020 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 contributions of coherence (or comprehension), purpose, and existential mattering
Vlad Costin, V. Vignoles
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Existential Issues in Old Age as Narrated by Older People—An Interview Study from Norway
Religions, 2022 Background: Research about the importance of existential issues and individuals’ responses to them in old age is growing. This study aimed to explore older Norwegians’ thoughts and experiences related to existential issues and whether or not they wanted ...
Åsta Marie Olafsson, Linda Rykkje
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Measuring meaning in life [PDF]
, 2009 The present studies addressed the need for a comprehensive, economical, and psychometrically adequate measure of existential meaning. In Study 1, principal-axis factor analysis of participants’ responses to popular meaning measures identified five latent
Farsides, Tom, Morgan, Jessica
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Review of: "Collective Guilt and the Search for Meaning in Post-Communist Albania: An Existential Perspective" [PDF]
, 2023 Bayartsetseg Terbish
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Natality and Relational Transcendence in Humanist Chaplaincy
Religions, 2022 Every life has a beginning and an end. Natality and mortality are both profound existential fundaments of life that may lead us to question meaning in life as well as to find meaning.
Joanna Wojtkowiak, Carmen Schuhmann
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Frontiers in Psychiatry, 2019 Burnout syndrome is a state of total exhaustion related to work conditions and stress from work. Recent findings suggest that logotherapy and the concepts of existential meaning and life fulfilment could provide a useful framework for explaining and ...
Norbert Riethof, Petr Bob, Petr Bob
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