How people engage in leisure is an important but frequently underappreciated aspect of
meaning in life. Leisure activities range from highly engaging and meaningful to subjectively …

We all desire to have meaningful experiences in life, but what factors give rise to perceptions
of meaning? Across seven preregistered studies (total N= 1362), we examined the role of …

Much academic and media attention has been focused on how nature contributes to
psychological health, yet, most of this focus has been on happiness or hedonic well-being …

Climate crisis presents a near-term existential threat to the human species, one that society
has neither the physical nor psychological infrastructure to manage. Eco-anxiety increases …

Understanding and promoting subjective wellbeing (SWB) has been the topic of increasing
research, due in part to its potential contributions to health and productivity. To date, the …

Suffering is inevitable in human life. Our perspective paper theorizes on precise
mechanisms for how self-transcendence—the state in which an individual looks beyond the …

This study examines how a phenomenon, awe, along with related resilience practices, is
perceived by a NASA medical and mental health professional, who also serves in a …

Objective: Making meaning out of the experience of chronic pain and posttraumatic stress
disorder (PTSD) is a core process of recovery and symptom management of the comorbidity …

Recent research in positive psychology has proposed that the experience of meaning in life
(MIL) is multidimensional and consists of three components: mattering, purpose, and …

Difficulty in the experience of meaning has been both theoretically and empirically linked
with depression. This cross-sectional study first aimed to replicate the association between …