Relationships of Sources of Meaning and Resilience With Meaningfulness and Satisfaction With Life: A Population-Based Study of Norwegians in Late Adulthood [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2021 Health-promoting initiatives incorporating meaning-making to enhance the well-being of people in late adulthood are important, particularly as the number of older people is increasing.
Torgeir Sørensen +4 more
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Motivations for Relationships as Sources of Meaning: Ghanaian and South African Experiences [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2020 Afrocentric paradigms reflect assumptions of the overarching importance of interconnectedness and social bonds in meaningful experiences. It is, however, not known if types of relatedness vary in importance as meaning sources in the subjective ...
Marié P. Wissing +6 more
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The Meaning and Purpose Scales (MAPS): development and multi-study validation of short measures of meaningfulness, crisis of meaning, and sources of purpose [PDF]
BMC Psychology, 2023 Background Meaning in life is multidimensional. It encompasses different qualities of meaning, such as meaningfulness, crisis of meaning, or existential indifference, as well as the sources from which people draw meaning, or purpose.
Tatjana Schnell, Lars Johan Danbolt
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Meaningful Activities and Sources of Meaning for Community-Dwelling People Living with Dementia. [PDF]
J Am Med Dir Assoc, 2022 Allison TA +8 more
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What Matters Most in Life? A German Cohort Study on the Sources of Meaning and Their Neurobiological Foundations in Four Age Groups [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2021 Existing work in the field of positive psychology suggests that people can draw meaning from a variety of sources. The present study aimed to identify the most important sources of meaning and to explore the role of age and neural adaptation processes in
Christopher Karwetzky +2 more
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“Action-Metaphor”: The Performatic Sources of Human Meaning-Making
Signata, 2020 Since the claim of this journal issue points out a potential relationship between the (theatrical) notion of “performance” and the notion of “semiotic practices”, rather than to the semiotic notion of “performance” as such, an intended side effect of the
Fabrizio Deriu
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School Principals’ Opinions on the Meaning and Sources of Workload
International Journal of Contemporary Educational Research, 2022 The purpose of this research is to examine various factors affecting workload of principals including psychological effects and coping strategies. A semi-structured interview was conducted with 13 principals.
Muhammet Emin Türkoğlu, Ramazan CANSOY
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What brings meaning to life in a highly secular society? A study on sources of meaning among Danes [PDF]
Scandinavian Journal of Psychology, 2018 This study presents psychometric properties of the Danish version of the Sources of Meaning and Meaning in Life Scale (SoMe-Da) and associations to socio-demographic and religious characteristics.
Heidi Frølund Pedersen +6 more
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Sources of meaning in life among older adults during the COVID-19 pandemic: A qualitative study. [PDF]
Nurs Open, 2023 Kim C, Lee MH, Kang KI.
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Meaning and resilience in war-affected populations during crisis [PDF]
Frontiers in PsychiatryIntroductionThe unprecedented events of October 7th, 2023, in Israel have profoundly impacted mental health and psychological functioning. This study aimed to explore how protective psychological factors—specifically meaning in life (MIL) and optimism ...
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