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Journal of Happiness Studies, 2016
Two aspects of meaning in life have drawn much attention in previous research: presence of meaning and search for meaning. We proposed four additional aspects concerning individuals’ thoughts and feelings about meaning in life: need for meaning, meaning confusion, meaning avoidance, and meaning anxiety.
Hong Zhang
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Two aspects of meaning in life have drawn much attention in previous research: presence of meaning and search for meaning. We proposed four additional aspects concerning individuals’ thoughts and feelings about meaning in life: need for meaning, meaning confusion, meaning avoidance, and meaning anxiety.
Hong Zhang
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Uncertainty, Belongingness, and Four Needs for Meaning
Psychological Inquiry, 2009The Van den Bos research program is persuasive in demonstrating that when uncertainty arises, people cling to their cultural worldview. That is, uncertainty increases worldview defense. Why?
Stillman, Tyler F., Baumeister, Roy F.
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Life Stories and the Four Need for Meaning
Psychological Inquiry, 1996(1996). Life Stories and the Four Need for Meaning. Psychological Inquiry: Vol. 7, No. 4, pp. 322-325.
Baumeister, RF, Wilson, B
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Labor of Meaning, Labor of Need:
2016This chapter critically examines the promise of organic farm volunteering programs such as WWOOF in meeting organic farmers’ need for affordable labor in Hawaii. While organic farm volunteering offers a short term coping strategy for some organic farmers, the cultural logic and rationale that propels these programs perpetuates the underlying labor ...
Mary Mostafanezhad +3 more
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Meaning in Life: Nature, Needs, and Myths
2014The authors first discuss the nature of meaning with a focus on three broad functions of meaning and two levels of meaning. Next, the authors discuss the need for meaning with a focus on the four needs for meaning (Baumeister 1991). Finally, the authors discuss some myths related to meaning, particularly the expectation that everything in life does (or
MacKenzie, Michael J. +1 more
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Unmet need means pressures mount
Nursing Older People, 2002While the funding of long-term care continues to attract controversy around the UK, acute services for older people have grabbed the national headlines and fuelled debate in Westminster.
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Mean Platelet Volume: The Need for a Reference Method
American Journal of Clinical Pathology, 1984The time course of artifactual effects due to anticoagulants, specimen temperature, and interval between venipuncture and analysis on platelet volume measurements was evaluated. Split specimens were analyzed using hydrodynamic focusing, and platelet distributions were computed using a least-squares fit to a log-normal distribution.
G A, Threatte +3 more
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Needs to reflect on the meaning of home
2018The aim of the research-project was to extend our understanding of the phenomenon of 'home' and how meaning of home is understood and constructed. For this purpose, literature was reviewed and two interviews with fellow students were conducted. The interviews were oriented at the problem-centered interview (PZI), looking for categories that were ...
Schober, Christian-Tilman +1 more
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Estimating Bed Needs by Means of Queuing Theory
New England Journal of Medicine, 1974RECENTLY, a major urban hospital planned to increase and improve its cardiac-care services. The hospital desired an increase in the number of acute coronary-care-unit beds; it also planned to estab...
J K, Cooper, T M, Corcoran
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