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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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.
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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
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Meaningful Activities and Sources of Meaning for Community-Dwelling People Living with Dementia [PDF]
J Am Med Dir Assoc, 2021 Objectives: To examine how people living with dementia at home engage in meaningful activities, a critical component of quality of life. Design: Ethnographic study design using semistructured interviews, participant-observation, and ethnographic analysis.
Theresa A. Allison +8 more
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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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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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Scandinavian Journal of PsychologyCancer survivors may be struggling to re-create meaning in life. Addressing their personal sources of meaning can support them in this process. The sources of meaning card method (SoMeCaM) aims to map and explore personal sources of meaning in a 1-h ...
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European Journal of Cancer Care, 2014 Although existential needs are highly prevalent in patients with cancer, specific sources of meaning have been little explored. We investigated whether specific sources of meaning predict global meaning and psychological distress.
Sigrun Vehling, Anja Mehnert
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Two sources of meaning in infant communication: preceding action contexts and act-accompanying characteristics [PDF]
Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci, 2014 Ulf Liszkowski
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Resources of the meaning of life in counseling students: A qualitative study [PDF]
Faṣlnāmah-i Farhang Mushavirah va Ravān/Darmānī, 2022 Human life represents a lifelong endeavor to seek and construct meaning. This basic dimension of existence is present every day in the process of working with people in auxiliary professions and challenges therapists to think seriously about the meaning ...
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