The science of meaning in life

LA King, JA Hicks - Annual review of psychology, 2021 - annualreviews.org
Meaning in life has long been a mystery of human existence. In this review, we seek to
demystify this construct. Focusing on the subjective experience of meaning in life, we review …

The relationship between nature connectedness and eudaimonic well-being: A meta-analysis

A Pritchard, M Richardson, D Sheffield… - Journal of happiness …, 2020 - Springer
Nature connectedness relates to an individual's subjective sense of their relationship with
the natural world. A recent meta-analysis has found that people who are more connected to …

Reaction to the COVID-19 pandemic: The influence of meaning in life, life satisfaction, and assumptions on world orderliness and positivity

J Trzebiński, M Cabański… - Loss and Trauma in the …, 2024 - taylorfrancis.com
The goal of the research was to measure the impact of the meaning in life, life satisfaction,
and the beliefs in orderliness and positivity of the social world on emotional and cognitive …

The relationships between resilience of the adults affected by the covid pandemic in Turkey and Covid-19 fear, meaning in life, life satisfaction, intolerance of …

Z Karataş, Ö Tagay - Personality and Individual Differences, 2021 - Elsevier
The current study was conducted to investigate the association between the resilience of the
adults affected by the Covid-19 pandemic and Covid-19 fear, meaning in life, life …

A psychologically rich life: Beyond happiness and meaning.

S Oishi, EC Westgate - Psychological Review, 2022 - psycnet.apa.org
Psychological science has typically conceptualized a good life in terms of either hedonic or
eudaimonic well-being. We propose that psychological richness is another, neglected …

A multicountry perspective on gender differences in time use during COVID-19

LM Giurge, AV Whillans… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - National Acad Sciences
The COVID-19 pandemic has fundamentally altered how people spend time, with possible
consequences for subjective well-being. Using diverse samples from the United States …

Significance-quest theory

AW Kruglanski, E Molinario, K Jasko… - Perspectives on …, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
Even though the motivation to feel worthy, to be respected, and to matter to others has been
identified for centuries by scholars, the antecedents, consequences, and conditions of its …

[HTML][HTML] What is good mental health? A scoping review

P Fusar-Poli, GS de Pablo, A De Micheli… - European …, 2020 - Elsevier
Promotion of good mental health in young people with and without mental disorders has
received little empirical research attention and interventions for improving mental health in …

On the promotion of human flourishing

TJ VanderWeele - Proceedings of the National Academy of …, 2017 - National Acad Sciences
Many empirical studies throughout the social and biomedical sciences focus only on very
narrow outcomes such as income, or a single specific disease state, or a measure of positive …

A review of the empirical literature on meaningful work: Progress and research agenda

C Bailey, R Yeoman, A Madden… - Human Resource …, 2019 - journals.sagepub.com
Meaningful work is a topic of importance in core domains of human resource development
(HRD) such as employee engagement, motivation, and personal development. However …