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Existential distress in family caregivers: scoping review of meaning-making interventions

BMJ Supportive & Palliative Care, 2023
Objectives Family and friend caregivers often feel overwhelmed by and ill-prepared for their responsibilities. Many feel helpless living with uncertainty about the outcome of the patient’s illness, which leads to existential distress.
N. Mcandrew   +6 more
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Existential Meaning Through Illness

Journal of Psychosocial Oncology, 2004
Abstract This study probed the effects of both level of existential meaning and coping processes on quality of life for patients with breast cancer. Results of bivariate correlation analyses with a sample of 248 women one to five years after diagnosis showed that a high level of meaning was strongly correlated with a high quality of life (r= .448, p
Eva G. Schoen, Donald R. Nicholas
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Existential Meaning and Terror Management

2019
Terror management theory (TMT) posits that the uniquely human awareness of death engenders potentially debilitating existential terror that is “managed” by subscribing to cultural worldviews providing a sense that life has meaning as well as opportunities to obtain self-esteem, in pursuit of psychological equanimity in the present and literal or ...
Sheldon Solomon, Jeff Greenberg
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