Meaning of Life – Primary References

Meaning of Life References with a DOI and Cite(s)
Number of records: 448

1. Abs: Abs | Goog: Goog | GoogSchol: GS | DOI: 10.1037/0022-0167.53.1.80 | Journal Impact Factor | Journal Metrics | Article Metrics
Title: The Meaning in Life Questionnaire: Assessing the Presence of and Search for Meaning in Life
Author(s): Steger, M. .et al
Cites per Year: 215 Cites: 4092 Year: 2006 Journal: ‘ J-Rnks 1-3: 0 | |
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2. Abs: Abs | Goog: Goog | GoogSchol: GS | DOI: 10.1080/17439760.2015.1137623 | Journal Impact Factor | Journal Metrics | Article Metrics
Title: The three meanings of meaning in life: Distinguishing coherence, purpose, and significance
Author(s): Martela, Frank and Steger, M.
Cites per Year: 113 Cites: 1018 Year: 2016 Journal: ‘ J-Rnks 1-3: 0 | |
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3. Abs: Abs | Goog: Goog | GoogSchol: GS | DOI: 10.1038/35037722 | Journal Impact Factor | Journal Metrics | Article Metrics
Title: Corpse clearance defines the meaning of cell death
Author(s): Savill, J. and Fadok, V.
Cites per Year: 67 Cites: 1667 Year: 2000 Journal: Nature J-Rnks 1-3: 12 | 20.957 | 1331
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4. Abs: Abs | Goog: Goog | GoogSchol: GS | DOI: 10.1146/annurev-psych-072420-122921 | Journal Impact Factor | Journal Metrics | Article Metrics
Title: The Science of Meaning in Life.
Author(s): King, L. and Hicks, Joshua A.
Cites per Year: 63 Cites: 315 Year: 2020 Journal: Annual Review of Psychology J-Rnks 1-3: 90 | 9.226 | 266
Abstract Text: 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 how it has been measured and briefly describe its correlates. Then we review evidence that meaning in life, for all its mystery, is a rather commonplace experience. We then define the construct and review its constituent facets: comprehension/coherence, purpose, and existential mattering/significance. We review the many experiences that have been shown to enhance meaning in life and close by considering important remaining research questions about this fascinating topic. Expected final online publication date for the Annual Review of Psychology, Volume 72 is January 4, 2021. Please see http://www.annualreviews.org/page/journal/pubdates for revised estimates.

5. Abs: Abs | Goog: Goog | GoogSchol: GS | DOI: 10.1111/scs.13039 | Journal Impact Factor | Journal Metrics | Article Metrics
Title: Elucidating the meaning of life world phenomena. A phenomenological hermeneutical method for researching lived experience
Author(s): Lindseth, A and Norberg, A
Cites per Year: 60 Cites: 179 Year: 2022 Journal: ‘ J-Rnks 1-3: 0 | |
Abstract Text: … In this paper, we propose a method for elucidating the meaning of life world phenomena, and we describe the theory behind it. The method is a way to get from the recognition that …

6. Abs: Abs | Goog: Goog | GoogSchol: GS | DOI: 10.1037/0022-3514.90.1.179 | Journal Impact Factor | Journal Metrics | Article Metrics
Title: Positive affect and the experience of meaning in life.
Author(s): King, L. .et al
Cites per Year: 59 Cites: 1127 Year: 2006 Journal: Journal of Personality and Social Psychology J-Rnks 1-3: 408 | 3.799 | 416
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7. Abs: Abs | Goog: Goog | GoogSchol: GS | DOI: 10.1080/15325024.2020.1765098 | Journal Impact Factor | Journal Metrics | Article Metrics
Title: Reaction to the COVID-19 Pandemic: The Influence of Meaning in Life, Life Satisfaction, and Assumptions on World Orderliness and Positivity
Author(s): Trzebiński, J. .et al
Cites per Year: 57 Cites: 286 Year: 2020 Journal: ‘ J-Rnks 1-3: 0 | |
Abstract Text: Abstract 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 reactions to the COVID-19 pandemic. The 317 participants were recruited over four days (April 1st–4th) during the start of the dynamic increase of the pandemic in Poland. The study was performed via open-access forums on the internet. The analyses indicated that stronger basic hope and higher levels of meaning in life and life satisfaction correlate with lower state anxiety and lower COVID-19 stress. Mediation analyses suggested the following interpretation of the interdependencies: basic hope supports meaning in life and life satisfaction and the increase in the latter two factors results in lower anxiety and COVID-19 stress. The results suggest that these three global assumptions and feelings may serve as buffers against anxiety as well as nonproductive thinking and decision making in the face of an unpredictable threat.

8. Abs: Abs | Goog: Goog | GoogSchol: GS | DOI: 10.1080/1047840X.2015.1064294 | Journal Impact Factor | Journal Metrics | Article Metrics
Title: Mindfulness Broadens Awareness and Builds Eudaimonic Meaning: A Process Model of Mindful Positive Emotion Regulation
Author(s): Garland, E. .et al
Cites per Year: 54 Cites: 544 Year: 2015 Journal: Psychological Inquiry J-Rnks 1-3: 3663 | 1.088 | 94
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9. Abs: Abs | Goog: Goog | GoogSchol: GS | DOI: 10.1037/gpr0000077 | Journal Impact Factor | Journal Metrics | Article Metrics
Title: Meaning in Life as Comprehension, Purpose, and Mattering: Toward Integration and New Research Questions
Author(s): George, Login S. and Park, Crystal L.
Cites per Year: 53 Cites: 477 Year: 2016 Journal: ‘ J-Rnks 1-3: 0 | |
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10. Abs: Abs | Goog: Goog | GoogSchol: GS | DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-6494.2007.00484.x | Journal Impact Factor | Journal Metrics | Article Metrics
Title: Understanding the search for meaning in life: personality, cognitive style, and the dynamic between seeking and experiencing meaning.
Author(s): Steger, M. .et al
Cites per Year: 52 Cites: 877 Year: 2008 Journal: Journal of Personality J-Rnks 1-3: 1110 | 2.192 | 160
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11. Abs: Abs | Goog: Goog | GoogSchol: GS | DOI: 10.1080/17439760802303127 | Journal Impact Factor | Journal Metrics | Article Metrics
Title: Meaning in life across the life span: Levels and correlates of meaning in life from emerging adulthood to older adulthood
Author(s): Steger, Michael F. .et al
Cites per Year: 51 Cites: 814 Year: 2009 Journal: Journal of Positive Psychology J-Rnks 1-3: 1723 | 1.701 | 92
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12. Abs: Abs | Goog: Goog | GoogSchol: GS | DOI: 10.5860/choice.186110 | Journal Impact Factor | Journal Metrics | Article Metrics
Title: Free Will, Agency, and Meaning in Life
Author(s): Pereboom, Derk
Cites per Year: 48 Cites: 526 Year: 2014 Journal: ‘ J-Rnks 1-3: 0 | |
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13. Abs: Abs | Goog: Goog | GoogSchol: GS | DOI: 10.1007/s10943-020-01005-8 | Journal Impact Factor | Journal Metrics | Article Metrics
Title: Does spiritual intelligence (SI) exist? A theoretical investigation of a tool useful for finding the meaning of life
Author(s): Skrzypińska, K
Cites per Year: 47 Cites: 187 Year: 2021 Journal: ‘ J-Rnks 1-3: 0 | |
Abstract Text: … Fulfillment of the criterion 1 is possible if we assume that SI is an instrument for finding and discovering the meaning of life. These actions would be the core operation of SI. Obviously, if …

14. Abs: Abs | Goog: Goog | GoogSchol: GS | DOI: 10.1037/a0035049 | Journal Impact Factor | Journal Metrics | Article Metrics
Title: Life is pretty meaningful.
Author(s): Heintzelman, Samantha J and King, L.
Cites per Year: 45 Cites: 498 Year: 2014 Journal: American Psychologist J-Rnks 1-3: 504 | 3.363 | 256
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15. Abs: Abs | Goog: Goog | GoogSchol: GS | DOI: 10.1037/pspp0000225 | Journal Impact Factor | Journal Metrics | Article Metrics
Title: Meaning is about mattering: Evaluating coherence, purpose, and existential mattering as precursors of meaning in life judgments.
Author(s): Costin, V. and Vignoles, V.
Cites per Year: 41 Cites: 206 Year: 2020 Journal: Journal of Personality and Social Psychology J-Rnks 1-3: 408 | 3.799 | 416
Abstract Text: When people judge their lives as meaningful, what is this judgment about? Drawing on recent tripartite theoretical accounts of meaning in life (MIL), we tested the separate contributions of coherence (or comprehension), purpose, and existential mattering (or significance) as potential precursors of peoples self-reported evaluations of MIL. In Study 1 (N = 314 social media users), we developed brief acquiescence-free measures of these constructs, confirming that sense of coherence, purpose, mattering, and MIL judgments were distinct from each other and from related constructs (sense of control, belonging, self-esteem, self-competence, mood). In Study 2 (N = 168 students) and Study 3 (N = 442 Prolific Academic respondents; preregistered), we collected longitudinal data to test temporal relationships between coherence, purpose, mattering, and MIL judgments over a 1-month time lag. In both studies, sense of mattering consistently emerged as a significant precursor of MIL judgments, whereas sense of purpose and coherence did not. We conclude that researchers and practitioners should pay more attention to the relatively neglected dimension of existential mattering, beyond their more common emphases on coherence or purpose as bases of meaningfulness. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2019 APA, all rights reserved).

16. Abs: Abs | Goog: Goog | GoogSchol: GS | DOI: 10.5840/IPQ199636448 | Journal Impact Factor | Journal Metrics | Article Metrics
Title: Darwin’s Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meanings of Life
Author(s): Gallagher, K.
Cites per Year: 40 Cites: 1171 Year: 1996 Journal: ‘ J-Rnks 1-3: 0 | |
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17. Abs: Abs | Goog: Goog | GoogSchol: GS | DOI: 10.1038/35085689 | Journal Impact Factor | Journal Metrics | Article Metrics
Title: The meaning of life
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Cites per Year: 39 Cites: 947 Year: 2001 Journal: Nature J-Rnks 1-3: 12 | 20.957 | 1331
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18. Abs: Abs | Goog: Goog | GoogSchol: GS | DOI: 10.1007/s10943-020-01142-0 | Journal Impact Factor | Journal Metrics | Article Metrics
Title: Relationship between compassion fatigue in nurses, and work-related stress and the meaning of life
Author(s): Aslan, H .et al
Cites per Year: 38 Cites: 113 Year: 2022 Journal: ‘ J-Rnks 1-3: 0 | |
Abstract Text: … This research was conducted in order to examine the correlation between work-related stress and meaning of life in association with compassion fatigue of nurses, as well as to …

19. Abs: Abs | Goog: Goog | GoogSchol: GS | DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199685516.001.0001 | Journal Impact Factor | Journal Metrics | Article Metrics
Title: Free Will, Agency, and Meaning in Life
Author(s): Pereboom, Derk
Cites per Year: 37 Cites: 411 Year: 2014 Journal: ‘ J-Rnks 1-3: 0 | |
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20. Abs: Abs | Goog: Goog | GoogSchol: GS | DOI: 10.1080/01612840.2016.1253804 | Journal Impact Factor | Journal Metrics | Article Metrics
Title: Meaning in life and meaning of life in mental health care: An integrative literature review
Author(s): Glaw, X .et al
Cites per Year: 36 Cites: 285 Year: 2017 Journal: ‘ J-Rnks 1-3: 0 | |
Abstract Text: … peoples beliefs regarding the meaning of life. This will inform … identified to answer the meaning of life question. These … understand their beliefs about meaning of life, contributing to a …

21. Abs: Abs | Goog: Goog | GoogSchol: GS | DOI: 10.1080/17437199.2017.1327325 | Journal Impact Factor | Journal Metrics | Article Metrics
Title: Meaning in life and physical health: systematic review and meta-analysis
Author(s): Czekierda, K. .et al
Cites per Year: 34 Cites: 274 Year: 2017 Journal: Health Psychology Review J-Rnks 1-3: 578 | 3.101 | 66
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22. Abs: Abs | Goog: Goog | GoogSchol: GS | DOI: 10.1080/07294360.2015.1087474 | Journal Impact Factor | Journal Metrics | Article Metrics
Title: The influence of motivation and adaptation on students’ subjective well-being, meaning in life and academic performance
Author(s): Bailey, Thomas and Phillips, L.
Cites per Year: 34 Cites: 308 Year: 2016 Journal: ‘ J-Rnks 1-3: 0 | |
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23. Abs: Abs | Goog: Goog | GoogSchol: GS | DOI: 10.1037/0022-0167.52.4.574 | Journal Impact Factor | Journal Metrics | Article Metrics
Title: Meaning in Life: One Link in the Chain From Religiousness to Well-Being
Author(s): Steger, M. and Frazier, P.
Cites per Year: 34 Cites: 678 Year: 2005 Journal: ‘ J-Rnks 1-3: 0 | |
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24. Abs: Abs | Goog: Goog | GoogSchol: GS | DOI: 10.1007/S10902-017-9869-7 | Journal Impact Factor | Journal Metrics | Article Metrics
Title: Meaningfulness as Satisfaction of Autonomy, Competence, Relatedness, and Beneficence: Comparing the Four Satisfactions and Positive Affect as Predictors of Meaning in Life
Author(s): Martela, Frank .et al
Cites per Year: 32 Cites: 224 Year: 2018 Journal: ‘ J-Rnks 1-3: 0 | |
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25. Abs: Abs | Goog: Goog | GoogSchol: GS | DOI: 10.1037/gpr0000115 | Journal Impact Factor | Journal Metrics | Article Metrics
Title: A Meaningful Life is a Healthy Life: A Conceptual Model Linking Meaning and Meaning Salience to Health
Author(s): Hooker, S. .et al
Cites per Year: 32 Cites: 223 Year: 2018 Journal: ‘ J-Rnks 1-3: 0 | |
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26. Abs: Abs | Goog: Goog | GoogSchol: GS | DOI: 10.1037/a0024292 | Journal Impact Factor | Journal Metrics | Article Metrics
Title: The past makes the present meaningful: nostalgia as an existential resource.
Author(s): Routledge, C. .et al
Cites per Year: 31 Cites: 427 Year: 2011 Journal: Journal of Personality and Social Psychology J-Rnks 1-3: 408 | 3.799 | 416
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27. Abs: Abs | Goog: Goog | GoogSchol: GS | DOI: 10.1080/17439760.2016.1209546 | Journal Impact Factor | Journal Metrics | Article Metrics
Title: The Multidimensional Existential Meaning Scale: A tripartite approach to measuring meaning in life
Author(s): George, Login S. and Park, Crystal L.
Cites per Year: 30 Cites: 240 Year: 2017 Journal: ‘ J-Rnks 1-3: 0 | |
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28. Abs: Abs | Goog: Goog | GoogSchol: GS | DOI: 10.1016/J.PAID.2010.01.008 | Journal Impact Factor | Journal Metrics | Article Metrics
Title: The role of meaning in life and optimism in promoting well-being
Author(s): Ho, M. .et al
Cites per Year: 30 Cites: 446 Year: 2010 Journal: ‘ J-Rnks 1-3: 0 | |
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29. Abs: Abs | Goog: Goog | GoogSchol: GS | DOI: 10.1016/J.JRP.2013.04.007 | Journal Impact Factor | Journal Metrics | Article Metrics
Title: Gratitude and grit indirectly reduce risk of suicidal ideations by enhancing meaning in life: Evidence for a mediated moderation model
Author(s): Kleiman, Evan M. .et al
Cites per Year: 30 Cites: 356 Year: 2013 Journal: ‘ J-Rnks 1-3: 0 | |
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30. Abs: Abs | Goog: Goog | GoogSchol: GS | DOI: 10.1080/17439760903271074 | Journal Impact Factor | Journal Metrics | Article Metrics
Title: The Sources of Meaning and Meaning in Life Questionnaire (SoMe): Relations to demographics and well-being
Author(s): Schnell, T.
Cites per Year: 29 Cites: 467 Year: 2009 Journal: ‘ J-Rnks 1-3: 0 | |
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31. Abs: Abs | Goog: Goog | GoogSchol: GS | DOI: 10.1046/J.1365-2648.2002.02315.X | Journal Impact Factor | Journal Metrics | Article Metrics
Title: Towards clarification of the meaning of spirituality.
Author(s): Tanyi, R.
Cites per Year: 28 Cites: 648 Year: 2002 Journal: Journal of Advanced Nursing J-Rnks 1-3: 4886 | 0.913 | 169
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32. Abs: Abs | Goog: Goog | GoogSchol: GS | DOI: 10.2307/j.ctt7t3cm | Journal Impact Factor | Journal Metrics | Article Metrics
Title: Meaning in Life and Why It Matters
Author(s): Wolf, Susan
Cites per Year: 27 Cites: 408 Year: 2010 Journal: ‘ J-Rnks 1-3: 0 | |
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33. Abs: Abs | Goog: Goog | GoogSchol: GS | DOI: 10.1111/J.2044-8295.1992.TB02429.X | Journal Impact Factor | Journal Metrics | Article Metrics
Title: On the relation between meaning in life and psychological well-being.
Author(s): Zika, S. and Chamberlain, K.
Cites per Year: 27 Cites: 890 Year: 1992 Journal: British Journal of Psychology J-Rnks 1-3: 1848 | 1.633 | 103
Abstract Text: Meaning in life is an important construct in psychology, but one which has been the focus of limited research. Most research has concentrated on the relation between meaning and psychopathology, and has been conducted with the Purpose in Life Test. This paper examines the relation between meaning in life and psychological well-being using several meaning measures and both positive and negative well-being dimensions. A strong association is found between meaning in life and well-being, which is replicated in two different samples. Meaning in life is found to have a stronger association with positive than with negative well-being dimensions, suggesting the value of taking a salutogenic approach to mental health research. Implications and suggestions for future research are discussed.

34. Abs: Abs | Goog: Goog | GoogSchol: GS | DOI: 10.4324/9781003136040-3 | Journal Impact Factor | Journal Metrics | Article Metrics
Title: Why trees, too, are good to think with: towards an anthropology of the meaning of life
Author(s): Bloch, M
Cites per Year: 27 Cites: 106 Year: 2021 Journal: ‘ J-Rnks 1-3: 0 | |
Abstract Text: Trees are used as major symbols all over the world, and the purpose of this chapter is to present a tentative explanation of why this should be the case. The most obvious way of …

35. Abs: Abs | Goog: Goog | GoogSchol: GS | DOI: 10.1080/00332747.1973.11023774 | Journal Impact Factor | Journal Metrics | Article Metrics
Title: The development of meaning in life
Author(s): Battista, J and Almond, R
Cites per Year: 26 Cites: 1364 Year: 1973 Journal: ‘ J-Rnks 1-3: 0 | |
Abstract Text: … Thus, when an individual states that his life is meaningful, he implies (1) that he is positively committed to some concept of the meaning of life; (2) that this concept of the meaning of life …

36. Abs: Abs | Goog: Goog | GoogSchol: GS | DOI: 10.1080/17439760.2016.1209541 | Journal Impact Factor | Journal Metrics | Article Metrics
Title: Prosocial behavior increases perceptions of meaning in life
Author(s): Klein, Nadav
Cites per Year: 26 Cites: 207 Year: 2017 Journal: ‘ J-Rnks 1-3: 0 | |
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37. Abs: Abs | Goog: Goog | GoogSchol: GS | DOI: 10.4324/9780203146286-17 | Journal Impact Factor | Journal Metrics | Article Metrics
Title: Experiencing meaning in life: Optimal functioning at the nexus of well-being, psychopathology, and spirituality.
Author(s): Steger, M.
Cites per Year: 25 Cites: 319 Year: 2012 Journal: ‘ J-Rnks 1-3: 0 | |
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38. Abs: Abs | Goog: Goog | GoogSchol: GS | DOI: 10.1007/s12529-010-9089-6 | Journal Impact Factor | Journal Metrics | Article Metrics
Title: Meaning in Life: Is It a Protective Factor for Adolescents’ Psychological Health?
Author(s): Brassai, László .et al
Cites per Year: 24 Cites: 332 Year: 2011 Journal: International Journal of Behavioral Medicine J-Rnks 1-3: 4521 | 0.957 | 72
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39. Abs: Abs | Goog: Goog | GoogSchol: GS | DOI: 10.1007/S11031-007-9068-7 | Journal Impact Factor | Journal Metrics | Article Metrics
Title: Curiosity and pathways to well-being and meaning in life: Traits, states, and everyday behaviors
Author(s): Kashdan, T. and Steger, M.
Cites per Year: 24 Cites: 426 Year: 2007 Journal: ‘ J-Rnks 1-3: 0 | |
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40. Abs: Abs | Goog: Goog | GoogSchol: GS | DOI: 10.1007/s10865-007-9111-x | Journal Impact Factor | Journal Metrics | Article Metrics
Title: Religiousness/Spirituality and Health: A Meaning Systems Perspective
Author(s): Park, Crystal L.
Cites per Year: 23 Cites: 421 Year: 2007 Journal: Journal of Behavioral Medicine J-Rnks 1-3: 3359 | 1.141 | 104
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41. Abs: Abs | Goog: Goog | GoogSchol: GS | DOI: 10.1007/S10551-013-1894-9 | Journal Impact Factor | Journal Metrics | Article Metrics
Title: Conceptualising Meaningful Work as a Fundamental Human Need
Author(s): Yeoman, Dr Ruth
Cites per Year: 23 Cites: 257 Year: 2014 Journal: ‘ J-Rnks 1-3: 0 | |
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42. Abs: Abs | Goog: Goog | GoogSchol: GS | DOI: 10.1037/a0014060 | Journal Impact Factor | Journal Metrics | Article Metrics
Title: Thine own self: true self-concept accessibility and meaning in life.
Author(s): Schlegel, Rebecca J. .et al
Cites per Year: 23 Cites: 360 Year: 2009 Journal: Journal of Personality and Social Psychology J-Rnks 1-3: 408 | 3.799 | 416
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43. Abs: Abs | Goog: Goog | GoogSchol: GS | DOI: 10.5860/choice.29-5378 | Journal Impact Factor | Journal Metrics | Article Metrics
Title: Meanings of Life
Author(s): Baumeister, R.
Cites per Year: 22 Cites: 730 Year: 1992 Journal: ‘ J-Rnks 1-3: 0 | |
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44. Abs: Abs | Goog: Goog | GoogSchol: GS | DOI: 10.1007/s11948-016-9770-5 | Journal Impact Factor | Journal Metrics | Article Metrics
Title: Will life be worth living in a world without work? Technological unemployment and the meaning of life
Author(s): Danaher, J
Cites per Year: 22 Cites: 174 Year: 2017 Journal: ‘ J-Rnks 1-3: 0 | |
Abstract Text: Suppose we are about to enter an era of increasing technological unemployment. What implications does this have for society? Two distinct ethical/social issues would seem to arise. …

45. Abs: Abs | Goog: Goog | GoogSchol: GS | DOI: 10.1016/J.JRP.2007.09.003 | Journal Impact Factor | Journal Metrics | Article Metrics
Title: The meaningful life in Japan and the United States: Levels and correlates of meaning in life
Author(s): Steger, M. .et al
Cites per Year: 21 Cites: 365 Year: 2008 Journal: ‘ J-Rnks 1-3: 0 | |
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46. Abs: Abs | Goog: Goog | GoogSchol: GS | DOI: 10.1007/S10902-006-9011-8 | Journal Impact Factor | Journal Metrics | Article Metrics
Title: Stability and specificity of meaning in life and life satisfaction over one year
Author(s): Steger, M. and Kashdan, T.
Cites per Year: 21 Cites: 381 Year: 2007 Journal: ‘ J-Rnks 1-3: 0 | |
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47. Abs: Abs | Goog: Goog | GoogSchol: GS | DOI: 10.4324/9780203766637 | Journal Impact Factor | Journal Metrics | Article Metrics
Title: The Death of God and the Meaning of Life
Author(s): Young, Julian
Cites per Year: 21 Cites: 229 Year: 2014 Journal: ‘ J-Rnks 1-3: 0 | |
Abstract Text: … The same is true of the meaning of life. That we talk, make nervous jokes, write and read … For most of our Western history we have not talked about the meaning of life. This is because …

48. Abs: Abs | Goog: Goog | GoogSchol: GS | DOI: 10.1037/0882-7974.22.3.456 | Journal Impact Factor | Journal Metrics | Article Metrics
Title: Longitudinal study of social support and meaning in life.
Author(s): Krause, N.
Cites per Year: 21 Cites: 369 Year: 2007 Journal: Psychology and Aging J-Rnks 1-3: 2556 | 1.348 | 168
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49. Abs: Abs | Goog: Goog | GoogSchol: GS | DOI: 10.4324/9780367823160 | Journal Impact Factor | Journal Metrics | Article Metrics
Title: The Psychology of Meaning in Life
Author(s): Schnell, Tatjana
Cites per Year: 20 Cites: 102 Year: 2020 Journal: ‘ J-Rnks 1-3: 0 | |
Abstract Text: Not Available – Click on ABS link above.

50. Abs: Abs | Goog: Goog | GoogSchol: GS | DOI: 10.4324/9780203164242 | Journal Impact Factor | Journal Metrics | Article Metrics
Title: On the Meaning of Life
Author(s): Cottingham, John
Cites per Year: 20 Cites: 446 Year: 2003 Journal: ‘ J-Rnks 1-3: 0 | |
Abstract Text: … ancient puzzle of the meaning of life were firmly reminded that … could inquire into the meaning of life was taken as a sign of … when we ask about the meaning of life? Partly, it seems, we …

51. Abs: Abs | Goog: Goog | GoogSchol: GS | DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199599318.001.0001 | Journal Impact Factor | Journal Metrics | Article Metrics
Title: Meaning in Life
Author(s): Metz, Thaddeus
Cites per Year: 20 Cites: 241 Year: 2013 Journal: ‘ J-Rnks 1-3: 0 | |
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52. Abs: Abs | Goog: Goog | GoogSchol: GS | DOI: 10.1177/0190272512459662 | Journal Impact Factor | Journal Metrics | Article Metrics
Title: Role-Identity Salience, Purpose and Meaning in Life, and Well-Being among Volunteers
Author(s): Thoits, P.
Cites per Year: 20 Cites: 259 Year: 2012 Journal: ‘ J-Rnks 1-3: 0 | |
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53. Abs: Abs | Goog: Goog | GoogSchol: GS | DOI: 10.1007/s10943-011-9540-2 | Journal Impact Factor | Journal Metrics | Article Metrics
Title: Linking Religion and Spirituality with Psychological Well-being: Examining Self-actualisation, Meaning in Life, and Personal Growth Initiative
Author(s): Ivtzan, Itai .et al
Cites per Year: 20 Cites: 239 Year: 2013 Journal: Journal of Religion and Health J-Rnks 1-3: 6050 | 0.793 | 52
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54. Abs: Abs | Goog: Goog | GoogSchol: GS | DOI: 10.1515/9781400834617 | Journal Impact Factor | Journal Metrics | Article Metrics
Title: The Brain and the Meaning of Life
Author(s): Thagard, Paul
Cites per Year: 20 Cites: 294 Year: 2010 Journal: ‘ J-Rnks 1-3: 0 | |
Abstract Text: … What is the meaning of life, and how can we find happiness in it? Thagard employs the latest tools and findings of science in his attempts to answer these (and additional) questions.—…

55. Abs: Abs | Goog: Goog | GoogSchol: GS | DOI: 10.1111/J.1758-0854.2009.01024.X | Journal Impact Factor | Journal Metrics | Article Metrics
Title: When is the Search for Meaning Related to Life Satisfaction
Author(s): Park, Nansook .et al
Cites per Year: 20 Cites: 293 Year: 2010 Journal: ‘ J-Rnks 1-3: 0 | |
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56. Abs: Abs | Goog: Goog | GoogSchol: GS | DOI: 10.1016/j.psychres.2013.08.002 | Journal Impact Factor | Journal Metrics | Article Metrics
Title: A meaningful life is worth living: Meaning in life as a suicide resiliency factor
Author(s): Kleiman, Evan M. and Beaver, Jenna K.
Cites per Year: 19 Cites: 233 Year: 2013 Journal: Psychiatry Research J-Rnks 1-3: 1154 | 2.139 | 159
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57. Abs: Abs | Goog: Goog | GoogSchol: GS | DOI: 10.1093/geronb/gbp047 | Journal Impact Factor | Journal Metrics | Article Metrics
Title: Meaning in life and mortality.
Author(s): Krause, N.
Cites per Year: 19 Cites: 306 Year: 2009 Journal: Journals of Gerontology – Series B Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences J-Rnks 1-3: 1029 | 2.311 | 169
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58. Abs: Abs | Goog: Goog | GoogSchol: GS | DOI: 10.1007/s10943-013-9781-3 | Journal Impact Factor | Journal Metrics | Article Metrics
Title: Religion and health: Anxiety, religiosity, meaning of life and mental health
Author(s): Shiah, YJ .et al
Cites per Year: 19 Cites: 190 Year: 2015 Journal: ‘ J-Rnks 1-3: 0 | |
Abstract Text: … of religiosity and meaning of life in a same study, we tested the hypotheses that meaning of life is associated with religiosity and mental health and that meaning of life and religiosity …

59. Abs: Abs | Goog: Goog | GoogSchol: GS | DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2019.01140 | Journal Impact Factor | Journal Metrics | Article Metrics
Title: Why awe promotes prosocial behaviors? The mediating effects of future time perspective and self-transcendence meaning of life
Author(s): Li, JJ .et al
Cites per Year: 19 Cites: 114 Year: 2019 Journal: ‘ J-Rnks 1-3: 0 | |
Abstract Text: … by conceptual analysis of awe as a trait positive emotion, we tested the hypothesis that dispositional awe results in an improvement of individuals self-transcendence meaning of life (…

60. Abs: Abs | Goog: Goog | GoogSchol: GS | DOI: 10.1080/17439760.2011.569171 | Journal Impact Factor | Journal Metrics | Article Metrics
Title: Is a life without meaning satisfying? The moderating role of the search for meaning in satisfaction with life judgments
Author(s): Steger, M. .et al
Cites per Year: 19 Cites: 261 Year: 2011 Journal: ‘ J-Rnks 1-3: 0 | |
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61. Abs: Abs | Goog: Goog | GoogSchol: GS | DOI: 10.1093/GERONB/58.3.S160 | Journal Impact Factor | Journal Metrics | Article Metrics
Title: Religious meaning and subjective well-being in late life.
Author(s): Krause, N.
Cites per Year: 18 Cites: 399 Year: 2003 Journal: Journals of Gerontology – Series B Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences J-Rnks 1-3: 1029 | 2.311 | 169
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62. Abs: Abs | Goog: Goog | GoogSchol: GS | DOI: 10.1007/S10902-012-9403-X | Journal Impact Factor | Journal Metrics | Article Metrics
Title: Meaning in Nature: Meaning in Life as a Mediator of the Relationship Between Nature Connectedness and Well-Being
Author(s): Howell, A. .et al
Cites per Year: 17 Cites: 206 Year: 2013 Journal: ‘ J-Rnks 1-3: 0 | |
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63. Abs: Abs | Goog: Goog | GoogSchol: GS | DOI: 10.1177/0146167211400424 | Journal Impact Factor | Journal Metrics | Article Metrics
Title: Feeling Like You Know Who You Are: Perceived True Self-Knowledge and Meaning in Life
Author(s): Schlegel, Rebecca J. .et al
Cites per Year: 17 Cites: 240 Year: 2011 Journal: Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin J-Rnks 1-3: 1085 | 2.238 | 218
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64. Abs: Abs | Goog: Goog | GoogSchol: GS | DOI: 10.1080/1047840X.2012.720832 | Journal Impact Factor | Journal Metrics | Article Metrics
Title: Making Meaning in Life
Author(s): Steger, M.
Cites per Year: 17 Cites: 222 Year: 2012 Journal: ‘ J-Rnks 1-3: 0 | |
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65. Abs: 3.0.CO;2-A target=’_blank’>Abs | Goog: 3.0.CO;2-A target=’_blank’>Goog | GoogSchol: 3.0.CO;2-A target=’_blank’>GS | DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1099-1611(199909/10)8:5<378::AID-PON406>3.0.CO;2-A | Journal Impact Factor | Journal Metrics | Article Metrics
Title: Seeking meaning and hope: self‐reported spiritual and existential needs among an ethnically‐diverse cancer patient population
Author(s): Moadel, A. .et al
Cites per Year: 16 Cites: 428 Year: 1999 Journal: Psycho-Oncology J-Rnks 1-3: 3535 | 1.111 | 152
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66. Abs: Abs | Goog: Goog | GoogSchol: GS | DOI: 10.1111/J.1758-0854.2009.01018.X | Journal Impact Factor | Journal Metrics | Article Metrics
Title: If One is Looking for Meaning in Life, Does it Help to Find Meaning in Work?
Author(s): Steger, M. and Dik, Bryan J.
Cites per Year: 16 Cites: 260 Year: 2009 Journal: ‘ J-Rnks 1-3: 0 | |
Abstract Text: Not Available – Click on ABS link above.

67. Abs: Abs | Goog: Goog | GoogSchol: GS | DOI: 10.1016/j.jpsychores.2009.02.006 | Journal Impact Factor | Journal Metrics | Article Metrics
Title: Meaning in life, anxiety, depression, and general health among smoking cessation patients.
Author(s): Steger, M. .et al
Cites per Year: 16 Cites: 259 Year: 2009 Journal: Journal of Psychosomatic Research J-Rnks 1-3: 3420 | 1.131 | 170
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68. Abs: Abs | Goog: Goog | GoogSchol: GS | DOI: 10.4324/9780203146286 | Journal Impact Factor | Journal Metrics | Article Metrics
Title: The Human Quest for Meaning Theories Research and Applications
Author(s): Wong, P.
Cites per Year: 16 Cites: 208 Year: 2012 Journal: ‘ J-Rnks 1-3: 0 | |
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69. Abs: Abs | Goog: Goog | GoogSchol: GS | DOI: 10.1080/17439760.2010.516616 | Journal Impact Factor | Journal Metrics | Article Metrics
Title: Family as a salient source of meaning in young adulthood
Author(s): Lambert, N. .et al
Cites per Year: 16 Cites: 235 Year: 2010 Journal: ‘ J-Rnks 1-3: 0 | |
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70. Abs: Abs | Goog: Goog | GoogSchol: GS | DOI: 10.1080/09658211.2012.677452 | Journal Impact Factor | Journal Metrics | Article Metrics
Title: The power of the past: Nostalgia as a meaning-making resource
Author(s): Routledge, C. .et al
Cites per Year: 16 Cites: 203 Year: 2012 Journal: Memory J-Rnks 1-3: 6795 | 0.726 | 100
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71. Abs: Abs | Goog: Goog | GoogSchol: GS | DOI: 10.1002/J.2161-0045.2010.TB00128.X | Journal Impact Factor | Journal Metrics | Article Metrics
Title: The Salience of a Career Calling Among College Students: Exploring Group Differences and Links to Religiousness, Life Meaning, and Life Satisfaction
Author(s): Duffy, Ryan D. and Sedlacek, W.
Cites per Year: 16 Cites: 233 Year: 2010 Journal: ‘ J-Rnks 1-3: 0 | |
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72. Abs: Abs | Goog: Goog | GoogSchol: GS | DOI: 10.1037/a0023965 | Journal Impact Factor | Journal Metrics | Article Metrics
Title: Positive affect, meaning in life, and future time perspective: an application of socioemotional selectivity theory.
Author(s): Hicks, Joshua A. .et al
Cites per Year: 15 Cites: 200 Year: 2012 Journal: Psychology and Aging J-Rnks 1-3: 2556 | 1.348 | 168
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73. Abs: Abs | Goog: Goog | GoogSchol: GS | DOI: 10.1111/jnp.12065 | Journal Impact Factor | Journal Metrics | Article Metrics
Title: The meaning of lifeand other abstract words: Insights from neuropsychology
Author(s): Hoffman, P
Cites per Year: 15 Cites: 137 Year: 2016 Journal: ‘ J-Rnks 1-3: 0 | |
Abstract Text: There are a number of long‐standing theories on how the cognitive processing of abstract words, like ‘life’, differs from that of concrete words, like ‘knife’. This review considers current …

74. Abs: Abs | Goog: Goog | GoogSchol: GS | DOI: 10.1007/S10902-007-9075-0 | Journal Impact Factor | Journal Metrics | Article Metrics
Title: Measuring Meaning in Life
Author(s): Morgan, Jessica and Farsides, Tom
Cites per Year: 15 Cites: 237 Year: 2009 Journal: ‘ J-Rnks 1-3: 0 | |
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75. Abs: Abs | Goog: Goog | GoogSchol: GS | DOI: 10.1016/J.PAID.2010.08.028 | Journal Impact Factor | Journal Metrics | Article Metrics
Title: Posttraumatic distress and the presence of posttraumatic growth and meaning in life: Experiential avoidance as a moderator.
Author(s): Kashdan, T. and Kane, Jennifer Q.
Cites per Year: 15 Cites: 203 Year: 2011 Journal: Personality and Individual Differences J-Rnks 1-3: 2235 | 1.463 | 193
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76. Abs: Abs | Goog: Goog | GoogSchol: GS | DOI: 10.1080/713649965 | Journal Impact Factor | Journal Metrics | Article Metrics
Title: Religious involvement, spirituality and personal meaning for life: Existential predictors of psychological wellbeing in community-residing and institutional care elders
Author(s): Fry, P.
Cites per Year: 13 Cites: 335 Year: 2000 Journal: ‘ J-Rnks 1-3: 0 | |
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77. Abs: Abs | Goog: Goog | GoogSchol: GS | DOI: 10.1002/jts.20460 | Journal Impact Factor | Journal Metrics | Article Metrics
Title: Posttraumatic stress disorder, guilt, depression, and meaning in life among military veterans.
Author(s): Owens, Gina P. .et al
Cites per Year: 13 Cites: 213 Year: 2009 Journal: Journal of Traumatic Stress J-Rnks 1-3: 2002 | 1.564 | 149
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78. Abs: Abs | Goog: Goog | GoogSchol: GS | DOI: 10.1002/JCLP.1114 | Journal Impact Factor | Journal Metrics | Article Metrics
Title: Coping, meaning in life, and suicidal manifestations: examining gender differences.
Author(s): Edwards, Melanie J. and Holden, Ronald R.
Cites per Year: 13 Cites: 316 Year: 2001 Journal: Journal of Clinical Psychology J-Rnks 1-3: 4134 | 1.014 | 133
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79. Abs: Abs | Goog: Goog | GoogSchol: GS | DOI: 10.1007/s10804-017-9280-y | Journal Impact Factor | Journal Metrics | Article Metrics
Title: When is Meaning in Life Most Beneficial to Young People? Styles of Meaning in Life and Well-Being Among Late Adolescents
Author(s): Krok, Dariusz
Cites per Year: 13 Cites: 101 Year: 2017 Journal: Journal of Adult Development J-Rnks 1-3: 8163 | 0.626 | 48
Abstract Text: The purpose of this article was to investigate the relationships between different dimensions of meaning in life and subjective and psychological well-being (PWB) among late adolescents. Three hundred and eighty four Polish participants completed The Personal Meaning Profile scale, The Satisfaction With Life Scale, The Positive and Negative Affect Schedule, The PWB scale, and the Meaning in Life Questionnaire. Two studies were conducted. In Study 1, the findings revealed that personal meaning had strong relations with subjective well-being (SWB) and PWB. In addition, the dimensions of personal meaning were more strongly associated with the cognitive dimension of SWB than with PWB. In Study 2, search for meaning had positive associations with SWB and PWB among those late adolescents who already had substantial meaning in life. Individuals who were in presence and search style had higher levels of SWB and PWB than those in only search style or presence style. The results demonstrate that purpose embedded in the concept of meaning in life appears central to the formation of adolescent well-being as young people come to establish overarching aims.

80. Abs: Abs | Goog: Goog | GoogSchol: GS | DOI: 10.1111/J.1540-4560.1983.TB00142.X | Journal Impact Factor | Journal Metrics | Article Metrics
Title: Searching for Meaning in Misfortune: Making Sense of Incest
Author(s): Silver, Roxane L. .et al
Cites per Year: 13 Cites: 528 Year: 1983 Journal: ‘ J-Rnks 1-3: 0 | |
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81. Abs: Abs | Goog: Goog | GoogSchol: GS | DOI: 10.1037//0022-3514.51.3.564 | Journal Impact Factor | Journal Metrics | Article Metrics
Title: Life events and substance use among adolescents: mediating effects of perceived loss of control and meaninglessness in life.
Author(s): Newcomb, M. and Harlow, L.
Cites per Year: 12 Cites: 469 Year: 1986 Journal: Journal of Personality and Social Psychology J-Rnks 1-3: 408 | 3.799 | 416
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82. Abs: Abs | Goog: Goog | GoogSchol: GS | DOI: 10.4135/9781452233703 | Journal Impact Factor | Journal Metrics | Article Metrics
Title: Exploring Existential Meaning: Optimizing Human Development Across the Life Span
Author(s): Reker, G. and Chamberlain, K.
Cites per Year: 12 Cites: 307 Year: 1999 Journal: ‘ J-Rnks 1-3: 0 | |
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83. Abs: Abs | Goog: Goog | GoogSchol: GS | DOI: 10.5860/choice.47-4118 | Journal Impact Factor | Journal Metrics | Article Metrics
Title: The Philosophical Baby: What Childrens Minds Tell Us About Truth, Love, and the Meaning of Life
Author(s): Alison Gopnik
Cites per Year: 12 Cites: 176 Year: 2010 Journal: ‘ J-Rnks 1-3: 0 | |
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84. Abs: Abs | Goog: Goog | GoogSchol: GS | DOI: 10.4314/ejhs.v32i4.6 | Journal Impact Factor | Journal Metrics | Article Metrics
Title: Social Support and Meaning of Life in Women with Breast Cancer
Author(s): Jadidi, A.
Cites per Year: 11 Cites: 34 Year: 2022 Journal: ‘ J-Rnks 1-3: 0 | |
Abstract Text: BACKGROUND: Social support is known as an affection-oriented coping mechanism when a person is involved with cancer. Therefore, this study was conducted to investigate the relationship between family social support and the meaning of life in women with breast cancer.METHODS: In this cross-sectional study, 84 women with a mean age of 60 (SD = 5.7) years with breast cancer who were admitted to a teaching hospital participated. Data were collected using social support and meaning of life questionnaires. After collecting the completed questionnaires and entering the data into the computer, the analysis was performed using SPSS software and using t-test, ANOVA, and Pearson correlation test at a significant level of 0.01.RESULTS: The mean score of their social support was 39.35 ± 9.51, respectively and the meaning of life was 29.5 ± 7.49. ANOVA results indicated that the social support score and meaning of life had no significant relationship with any of the demographic variables. Also, the findings suggest that there is a statistically significant correlation between social support and the meaning of life (r = 0.773, P < 0.001).CONCLUSION: It is proposed to increase the level of social support from the family to help improve the meaning of life in cancer patients.

85. Abs: Abs | Goog: Goog | GoogSchol: GS | DOI: 10.1525/9780520919242 | Journal Impact Factor | Journal Metrics | Article Metrics
Title: Disrupted Lives: How People Create Meaning in a Chaotic World
Author(s): Becker, G.
Cites per Year: 11 Cites: 314 Year: 1997 Journal: ‘ J-Rnks 1-3: 0 | |
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86. Abs: Abs | Goog: Goog | GoogSchol: GS | DOI: 10.1080/03069885.2020.1760206 | Journal Impact Factor | Journal Metrics | Article Metrics
Title: Do hope and meaning of life mediate resilience and life satisfaction among Latinx students?
Author(s): Karaman, MA .et al
Cites per Year: 11 Cites: 55 Year: 2020 Journal: ‘ J-Rnks 1-3: 0 | |
Abstract Text: … The purpose of the current study was to understand the mediation effects of hope and meaning of life between resilience and life satisfaction among Latinx students. Until now, there …

87. Abs: Abs | Goog: Goog | GoogSchol: GS | DOI: 10.1093/GERONB/59.5.S287 | Journal Impact Factor | Journal Metrics | Article Metrics
Title: Stressors arising in highly valued roles, meaning in life, and the physical health status of older adults.
Author(s): Krause, N.
Cites per Year: 11 Cites: 231 Year: 2004 Journal: Journals of Gerontology – Series B Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences J-Rnks 1-3: 1029 | 2.311 | 169
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88. Abs: Abs | Goog: Goog | GoogSchol: GS | DOI: 10.1086/481840 | Journal Impact Factor | Journal Metrics | Article Metrics
Title: Meanings of Life
Author(s): Hocking, W. E.
Cites per Year: 11 Cites: 972 Year: 1936 Journal: Journal of Religion J-Rnks 1-3: 23123 | 0.133 | 19
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89. Abs: Abs | Goog: Goog | GoogSchol: GS | DOI: 10.3200/JACH.57.2.221-232 | Journal Impact Factor | Journal Metrics | Article Metrics
Title: The protective function of meaning of life on life satisfaction among Chinese students in Australia and Hong Kong: A cross-cultural comparative study
Author(s): Pan, JY .et al
Cites per Year: 11 Cites: 182 Year: 2008 Journal: ‘ J-Rnks 1-3: 0 | |
Abstract Text: … , meaning of life, … Meaning of life had a strong positive contribution and acculturative stressors had a negative contribution in predicting life satisfaction in both samples. Meaning of life …

90. Abs: Abs | Goog: Goog | GoogSchol: GS | DOI: 10.1111/sjp.12044 | Journal Impact Factor | Journal Metrics | Article Metrics
Title: The good cause account of the meaning of life
Author(s): Smuts, A
Cites per Year: 11 Cites: 128 Year: 2013 Journal: ‘ J-Rnks 1-3: 0 | |
Abstract Text: … I argue that the best theory of the meaning of life should clearly distinguish … the meaning of life must respect on pain of radical revisionism. I offer a normative theory of the meaning of life, …

91. Abs: Abs | Goog: Goog | GoogSchol: GS | DOI: 10.5860/choice.48-7213 | Journal Impact Factor | Journal Metrics | Article Metrics
Title: The Belief Instinct: The Psychology of Souls, Destiny, and the Meaning of Life
Author(s):
Cites per Year: 11 Cites: 149 Year: 2011 Journal: ‘ J-Rnks 1-3: 0 | |
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92. Abs: Abs | Goog: Goog | GoogSchol: GS | DOI: 10.1093/actrade/9780199532179.001.0001 | Journal Impact Factor | Journal Metrics | Article Metrics
Title: The Meaning of Life
Author(s): Eagleton, Terry
Cites per Year: 10 Cites: 178 Year: 2008 Journal: ‘ J-Rnks 1-3: 0 | |
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93. Abs: Abs | Goog: Goog | GoogSchol: GS | DOI: 10.1080/17482631.2022.2028348 | Journal Impact Factor | Journal Metrics | Article Metrics
Title: The meaning of life according to patients with advanced lung cancer: a qualitative study
Author(s): Zhang, JM .et al
Cites per Year: 10 Cites: 31 Year: 2022 Journal: ‘ J-Rnks 1-3: 0 | |
Abstract Text: … These include: 1) The core of the meaning of life is “self-iteration,” which includes self-… form of the meaning of life is “yu-wei,” including self-reliance and altruism; 3) The meaning of life is …

94. Abs: Abs | Goog: Goog | GoogSchol: GS | DOI: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780195187243.013.0064 | Journal Impact Factor | Journal Metrics | Article Metrics
Title: Meaning in Life
Author(s): Steger, Michael F.
Cites per Year: 10 Cites: 165 Year: 2009 Journal: ‘ J-Rnks 1-3: 0 | |
Abstract Text:

In this chapter, it is argued that meaning in life is an important variable for human well-being. Literature supporting this contention is reviewed, and complexities regarding defining meaning in life are discussed. Definitions of meaning have focused on several components, two of which appear central and unique to meaning in life, suggesting a conceptual framework of meaning in life comprised of two pillars: comprehension and purpose. Comprehension encompasses peoples ability to find patterns, consistency, and significance in the many events and experiences in their lives, and their synthesis and distillation of the most salient, important, and motivating factors. People face the challenge of understanding their selves, the world around them, and their unique niche and interactions within the world, and the notion of comprehension unifies these domains of understanding. Purpose refers to highly motivating, long-term goals about which people are passionate and highly committed. In the framework presented in this chapter, it is suggested that people devote significant resources to the pursuit of their purposes and that the most effective and rewarding purposes arise from and are congruent with peoples comprehension of their lives. Literature is reviewed regarding where meaning might come from, and other dimensions of meaning are considered (i.e., sources of meaning and search for meaning). Suggestions for future research are proposed.

95. Abs: Abs | Goog: Goog | GoogSchol: GS | DOI: 10.1017/S1478951517000669 | Journal Impact Factor | Journal Metrics | Article Metrics
Title: Meaning of life, representation of death, and their association with psychological distress
Author(s): Testoni, I.
Cites per Year: 10 Cites: 72 Year: 2018 Journal: Palliative and Supportive Care J-Rnks 1-3: 6818 | 0.724 | 56
Abstract Text: Our findings support the hypothesis that participants who represent death as a passage and have a strong perception of the meaning of life tend to report lower levels of distress, anxiety, and depression. We recommend that perceived meaning of life and representation of death be more specifically examined in the cancer and palliative care settings.

96. Abs: Abs | Goog: Goog | GoogSchol: GS | DOI: 10.1016/j.adolescence.2021.01.004 | Journal Impact Factor | Journal Metrics | Article Metrics
Title: Parenting factors and meaning of life among Chinese adolescents: A six-wave longitudinal study
Author(s): Shek, D.T.L.
Cites per Year: 10 Cites: 41 Year: 2021 Journal: Journal of Adolescence J-Rnks 1-3: 2747 | 1.293 | 130
Abstract Text: Using six-wave data, the present study examined the inluence of parent-child subsystem relational qualities (indexed by parental behavioral control, psychological control, and parent-child relationship) on the initial status and growth trajectory of meaning of life (MOL) in Chinese adolescents. Methods: A total of 2023 high school students in Hong Kong (M age = 12.53 ± 0.66 years, 48.0% male students) responded to a questionnaire measuring their perceived parent-child subsystem relational qualities and meaning of life for six consecutive years from 20092010. Individual growth curve (IGC) analyses and multiple regression analyses were used. Results: Results of IGC analyses showed that parental behavioral control and parent-child relationship quality at Wave 1 positively predicted the initial level of adolescent MOL but negatively inluenced the growth trajectory of MOL. Parental psychological control at the initial level negatively predicted the initial status of MOL but not the developmental trajectory of adolescent MOL. However, compared with adolescents experiencing poorer parent-child relational subsystem qualities, adolescents with better parent-child relational subsystem qualities showed significantly higher MOL at each time point. Multiple regression analyses also showed that while parent-child relationship quality and paternal behavioral control concurrently and longitudinally exhibited positive predictions on adolescent MOL, the impact of parental psychological control on adolescent MOL showed different patterns in early and late adolescence. Conclusions: The pioneering indings underline the important role of different parent-child subsystem relational qualities in inluencing adolescent MOL.

97. Abs: Abs | Goog: Goog | GoogSchol: GS | DOI: 10.5860/choice.45-4515 | Journal Impact Factor | Journal Metrics | Article Metrics
Title: Educations End: Why Our Colleges and Universities Have Given Up on the Meaning of Life
Author(s): Anthony T. Kronman
Cites per Year: 10 Cites: 174 Year: 2008 Journal: ‘ J-Rnks 1-3: 0 | |
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98. Abs: Abs | Goog: Goog | GoogSchol: GS | DOI: 10.1177/0146167203256374 | Journal Impact Factor | Journal Metrics | Article Metrics
Title: The meaning of life (events) predicts changes in attachment security
Author(s): Davila, J and Sargent, E
Cites per Year: 10 Cites: 222 Year: 2003 Journal: ‘ J-Rnks 1-3: 0 | |
Abstract Text: Building on prior research, which has failed to find consistent effects of life events on change in self-reported adult attachment security over time, the present study tested the hypothesis …

99. Abs: Abs | Goog: Goog | GoogSchol: GS | DOI: 10.1016/j.heliyon.2024.e30124 | Journal Impact Factor | Journal Metrics | Article Metrics
Title: The relationship between the meaning of life, psychological well-being, self-care, and social capital, with depression and death anxiety in the elderly living in nursing homes: The mediating role of loneliness
Author(s): Afrashteh, M. Yousefi
Cites per Year: 10 Cites: 10 Year: 2024 Journal: Heliyon J-Rnks 1-3: 8422 | 0.609 | 69
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100. Abs: Abs | Goog: Goog | GoogSchol: GS | DOI: 10.1017/S073093840001995X | Journal Impact Factor | Journal Metrics | Article Metrics
Title: Darwins Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meanings of Life
Author(s): Ivers, D.
Cites per Year: 10 Cites: 288 Year: 1996 Journal: Politics and the Life Sciences J-Rnks 1-3: 13123 | 0.373 | 22
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101. Abs: Abs | Goog: Goog | GoogSchol: GS | DOI: 10.1016/0743-1066(93)90043-G | Journal Impact Factor | Journal Metrics | Article Metrics
Title: Towards a meaning of life
Author(s): Aït-Kaci, H.
Cites per Year: 10 Cites: 316 Year: 1993 Journal: ‘ J-Rnks 1-3: 0 | |
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102. Abs: Abs | Goog: Goog | GoogSchol: GS | DOI: 10.1086/340462 | Journal Impact Factor | Journal Metrics | Article Metrics
Title: Recent work on the meaning of life
Author(s): Metz, T
Cites per Year: 9 Cites: 213 Year: 2002 Journal: ‘ J-Rnks 1-3: 0 | |
Abstract Text: … of the question of the meaning of life. Philosophers are more … to pose questions about the meaning of life. And if space for … for the lack of interest in the meaning of life, but they are not …

103. Abs: Abs | Goog: Goog | GoogSchol: GS | DOI: 10.1016/s0262-4079(12)61552-8 | Journal Impact Factor | Journal Metrics | Article Metrics
Title: Meaning of Life
Author(s): Keith Milham
Cites per Year: 9 Cites: 120 Year: 2012 Journal: New Scientist J-Rnks 1-3: 25363 | 0.110 | 19
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104. Abs: Abs | Goog: Goog | GoogSchol: GS | DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780190649562.003.0020 | Journal Impact Factor | Journal Metrics | Article Metrics
Title: The Meaning of Life
Author(s): Rosenstein, Donald L. and Yopp, Justin M.
Cites per Year: 9 Cites: 64 Year: 2018 Journal: ‘ J-Rnks 1-3: 0 | |
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Not long after Susan died, Karl traveled to Connecticut to attend a wedding. He anticipated some uncomfortable moments but made it through the ceremony without feeling too sad. The reception was much more difficult. Karl was sitting alone and nursing a drink when the deejay announced: . . . Listen up everybody. I need all the married couples to come out on the dance floor. . . . A dozen or so couples came forward as the deejay explained the rules. . . .I want everyone to keep dancing until I call out the number of years that you’ve been married. Let’s start with an easy one: take a seat if you’ve been married for less than four hours. . . . The smiling bride and groom walked off the dance floor as their guests laughed and applauded. . . . Now, keep dancing if you’ve been married for five years or longer. . . . Several young couples took their seats. . . . Ten years … fifteen years. . . . Karl’s heart sank. He and Susan would never reach that milestone. Their number, 14, was frozen in time. The contest ended when an elderly couple who had been married for more than fifty years were the only dancers remaining. As the guests stood and clapped, Karl sat in silence and scanned the room. The contest winners were on a victory lap of hugs and high-fives. The newlyweds stood to the side of the dance floor staring deeply into each other’s eyes. Karl was alone and Susan was dead. Nothing about this celebration felt relevant to him. The focus of group meetings continued to evolve. In the beginning, the group was mostly a safe place for the fathers to share their grief and feel less alone. It quickly became a practical problem-solving get-together and over time matured into a forum to experiment with personal reinvention. The men and their children had experienced staggering pain that often struck them as completely meaningless. They related to Karl’s experience at the wedding in that they also often felt alone, disconnected, and fundamentally confused about their new place in the world and whether it even mattered.

105. Abs: Abs | Goog: Goog | GoogSchol: GS | DOI: 10.1007/s11211-009-0100-9 | Journal Impact Factor | Journal Metrics | Article Metrics
Title: System justification and the meaning of life: Are the existential benefits of ideology distributed unequally across racial groups?
Author(s): Rankin, LE .et al
Cites per Year: 9 Cites: 146 Year: 2009 Journal: ‘ J-Rnks 1-3: 0 | |
Abstract Text: In this research, we investigated the relations among system justification, religiosity, and subjective well-being in a sample of nationally representative low-income respondents in the …

106. Abs: Abs | Goog: Goog | GoogSchol: GS | DOI: 10.1521/SULI.33.3.231.23213 | Journal Impact Factor | Journal Metrics | Article Metrics
Title: Mental pain and its relationship to suicidality and life meaning.
Author(s): Orbach, I. .et al
Cites per Year: 9 Cites: 199 Year: 2003 Journal: Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior J-Rnks 1-3: 6309 | 0.769 | 103
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107. Abs: Abs | Goog: Goog | GoogSchol: GS | DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2022.957235 | Journal Impact Factor | Journal Metrics | Article Metrics
Title: Perceived meaning of life and satisfaction with life: A research synthesis using an online finding archive
Author(s): Sameer, Y .et al
Cites per Year: 9 Cites: 18 Year: 2023 Journal: ‘ J-Rnks 1-3: 0 | |
Abstract Text: … perceived meaning of life otherwise affect satisfaction with life? (3) How does satisfaction with life affect the perceived the meaning of life… Still, the perceived meaning of life can affect life …

108. Abs: Abs | Goog: Goog | GoogSchol: GS | DOI: 10.1186/s12912-023-01245-5 | Journal Impact Factor | Journal Metrics | Article Metrics
Title: The mediating effects of attitude toward death and meaning of life on the relationship between perception of death and coping with death competence among …
Author(s): He, S .et al
Cites per Year: 9 Cites: 18 Year: 2023 Journal: ‘ J-Rnks 1-3: 0 | |
Abstract Text: … , competence to cope with death, the meaning of life, and attitude toward death. There were … meaning of life, and the chain mediating effect of natural acceptance and meaning of life. …

109. Abs: Abs | Goog: Goog | GoogSchol: GS | DOI: 10.1097/00002820-199006000-00006 | Journal Impact Factor | Journal Metrics | Article Metrics
Title: Understanding the cancer patients search for meaning
Author(s): O’connor, A. .et al
Cites per Year: 9 Cites: 306 Year: 1990 Journal: Cancer Nursing J-Rnks 1-3: 8063 | 0.632 | 83
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110. Abs: Abs | Goog: Goog | GoogSchol: GS | DOI: 10.1177/0033294117697084 | Journal Impact Factor | Journal Metrics | Article Metrics
Title: Presence of Meaning in Life and Search for Meaning in Life and Relationship to Health Anxiety
Author(s): Yek, Ming Hwei .et al
Cites per Year: 9 Cites: 68 Year: 2017 Journal: Psychological Reports J-Rnks 1-3: 7328 | 0.684 | 78
Abstract Text: The present study explored presence of meaning in life, search for meaning in life, and their correlation with health anxiety. The Meaning in Life Questionnaire and the Short Health Anxiety Inventory were completed by 753 individuals. Results indicated higher presence of meaning in life was associated with lower health anxiety, while the opposite was observed for search for meaning in life. Results also revealed an interaction between presence of meaning in life and search for meaning in life, where individuals with high search for meaning in life and high presence of meaning in life had lower health anxiety than those with high search for meaning in life and low presence of meaning in life. These findings suggest that presence of meaning in life and search for meaning in life are correlates of health anxiety.

111. Abs: Abs | Goog: Goog | GoogSchol: GS | DOI: 10.1007/s12144-022-03058-2 | Journal Impact Factor | Journal Metrics | Article Metrics
Title: Why eudemonia bring more happiness: The multiple mediating roles of meaning of life and emotions
Author(s): Sun, W .et al
Cites per Year: 9 Cites: 17 Year: 2023 Journal: ‘ J-Rnks 1-3: 0 | |
Abstract Text: … more dependent on the meaning of life to affect life satisfaction, … eudaimonic motivation and meaning of life, we propose … the chain mediation of meaning of life (seeking or experience) …

112. Abs: Abs | Goog: Goog | GoogSchol: GS | DOI: 10.1177/0022167899394003 | Journal Impact Factor | Journal Metrics | Article Metrics
Title: Sources of Meaning: An Investigation of Significant Commitments in Life
Author(s): Debats, D.
Cites per Year: 8 Cites: 211 Year: 1999 Journal: ‘ J-Rnks 1-3: 0 | |
Abstract Text: Not Available – Click on ABS link above.

113. Abs: Abs | Goog: Goog | GoogSchol: GS | DOI: 10.1037/0002-9432.74.1.72 | Journal Impact Factor | Journal Metrics | Article Metrics
Title: The meaning of life experiences: Application of a meta‐model to rehabilitation sciences and services
Author(s): King, GA
Cites per Year: 8 Cites: 162 Year: 2004 Journal: ‘ J-Rnks 1-3: 0 | |
Abstract Text: … In conclusion, the meta-model of the meaning of life experience simplifies theories of complex phenomena to their essence. Refinement and extension of the model will undoubtedly …

114. Abs: Abs | Goog: Goog | GoogSchol: GS | DOI: 10.4324/9781351018500 | Journal Impact Factor | Journal Metrics | Article Metrics
Title: Meaning and Melancholia
Author(s): Bollas, Christopher
Cites per Year: 8 Cites: 53 Year: 2018 Journal: ‘ J-Rnks 1-3: 0 | |
Abstract Text: Not Available – Click on ABS link above.

115. Abs: Abs | Goog: Goog | GoogSchol: GS | DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4939-0308-5_2 | Journal Impact Factor | Journal Metrics | Article Metrics
Title: Meaning in Life: Nature, Needs, and Myths
Author(s): MacKenzie, Michael J. and Baumeister, Roy F.
Cites per Year: 8 Cites: 83 Year: 2014 Journal: ‘ J-Rnks 1-3: 0 | |
Abstract Text: Not Available – Click on ABS link above.

116. Abs: Abs | Goog: Goog | GoogSchol: GS | DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2021.680795 | Journal Impact Factor | Journal Metrics | Article Metrics
Title: The influence of gratitude on the meaning of life: The mediating effect of family function and peer relationship
Author(s): Zhang, P .et al
Cites per Year: 8 Cites: 30 Year: 2021 Journal: ‘ J-Rnks 1-3: 0 | |
Abstract Text: … of gratitude on the meaning of life of college students and … of gratitude on the meaning of life (meaning existence and … impact of gratitude on the meaning of life (meaning existence and …

117. Abs: Abs | Goog: Goog | GoogSchol: GS | DOI: 10.1080/02698595.2011.605252 | Journal Impact Factor | Journal Metrics | Article Metrics
Title: The Brain and the Meaning of Life
Author(s): Liz Stillwaggon Swan
Cites per Year: 8 Cites: 105 Year: 2011 Journal: ‘ J-Rnks 1-3: 0 | |
Abstract Text: Not Available – Click on ABS link above.

118. Abs: Abs | Goog: Goog | GoogSchol: GS | DOI: 10.4324/9781315784489-2 | Journal Impact Factor | Journal Metrics | Article Metrics
Title: Meaning of Life and Meaning of Death in Successful Aging
Author(s): Wong, Paul T. P.
Cites per Year: 7 Cites: 52 Year: 2018 Journal: ‘ J-Rnks 1-3: 0 | |
Abstract Text: I can never forget the angry reaction from a number of seniors right after the keynote address on successful aging at a major gerontological society convention. The speaker was a prominent authority on the topic, yet his message was met with disapproval and even anger from a small group of seniors standing close to me. These protestors included three or four women, a clergyman and a lanky, tall white-haired man leaning on a cane. We were standing at the door because there were no empty seats left inside the lecture hall. One advantage of being outside was that people could freely express their opinions without embarrassing the speaker.

119. Abs: Abs | Goog: Goog | GoogSchol: GS | DOI: 10.1007/s10943-016-0321-9 | Journal Impact Factor | Journal Metrics | Article Metrics
Title: Empathy is associated with meaning of life and mental health treatment but not religiosity among Brazilian medical students
Author(s): Damiano, RF .et al
Cites per Year: 7 Cites: 59 Year: 2017 Journal: ‘ J-Rnks 1-3: 0 | |
Abstract Text: … We found meaning of life and mental health treatment were both significantly associated with general empathy (Jefferson Final score) and Perspective Taking, the most important …

120. Abs: Abs | Goog: Goog | GoogSchol: GS | DOI: 10.1111/J.2044-8295.1995.TB02758.X | Journal Impact Factor | Journal Metrics | Article Metrics
Title: Experiences of meaning in life: a combined qualitative and quantitative approach.
Author(s): Debats, D. .et al
Cites per Year: 7 Cites: 219 Year: 1995 Journal: British Journal of Psychology J-Rnks 1-3: 1848 | 1.633 | 103
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121. Abs: Abs | Goog: Goog | GoogSchol: GS | DOI: 10.1100/tsw.2003.102 | Journal Impact Factor | Journal Metrics | Article Metrics
Title: Quality of life philosophy I. Quality of life, happiness, and meaning in life
Author(s): Ventegodt, S .et al
Cites per Year: 7 Cites: 156 Year: 2003 Journal: ‘ J-Rnks 1-3: 0 | |
Abstract Text: … The meaning of life is to create a connection between our inner depths and the outer world. It is about finding the dreams and all the hidden potentials and fighting to bring them out. …

122. Abs: Abs | Goog: Goog | GoogSchol: GS | DOI: 10.1186/s40359-023-01053-1 | Journal Impact Factor | Journal Metrics | Article Metrics
Title: The relationship between meaning of life, perceived social support, spiritual well-being and pain catastrophizing with quality of life in migraine patients: the mediating role of pain self-efficacy
Author(s): Afrashteh, M. Yousefi
Cites per Year: 7 Cites: 14 Year: 2023 Journal: BMC psychology J-Rnks 1-3: 4933 | 0.906 | 34
Abstract Text: Abstract Background Migraine is a neurological disease that has several physical and psychological complications, which is characterized by disability and impaired quality of life. Aims The aim of this study was to explore the mediating role of pain self-efficacy in the relationship between meaning of life, perceived social support, spiritual well-being and pain catastrophizing with quality of life in migraine sufferers. The relationship between these factors with quality of life (QOL) was not fully explored in migraine patients. Method This study was a correlational study of structural equations. Therefore, 300 patients with migraine who referred to one of the specialized neurological treatment centers in Zanjan in 2021 were recruited based on the inclusion criteria. Patients also completed the World Health Organization Quality of Life Scale (WHOQOL-BREF), Meaning in Life Questionnaire, Multidimensional Scale of Perceived Social Support, Spiritual Well-Being Scale, Pain Catastrophizing Scale, Pain Self-Efficacy Questionnaire. Finally, the hypotheses were then analyzed with correlation coefficient and path analysis method by using SPSS-26 and LISREL-10.2 programs. Results The results of the present study showed that pain self-efficacy has a mediating role in the relationship between meaning of life and quality of life (B = 0.015), perceived social support with quality of life (B = 0.022), spiritual well-being with quality of life (B = 0.021), as well as pain catastrophizing with quality of life (B = − 0.015). Conclusion According to the results of this study, by considering the role of self-efficacy of pain, it is possible to develop the programs to strengthen and improve the meaning of life, perceived social support, spiritual well-being and also reduce pain catastrophizing, in order to improve the quality of life of patients with migraine.

123. Abs: Abs | Goog: Goog | GoogSchol: GS | DOI: 10.1017/9781108558136 | Journal Impact Factor | Journal Metrics | Article Metrics
Title: God, Soul and the Meaning of Life
Author(s): Metz, Thaddeus
Cites per Year: 7 Cites: 41 Year: 2019 Journal: ‘ J-Rnks 1-3: 0 | |
Abstract Text: This Element critically explores the potential relevance of God or a soul for lifes meaning as discussed in recent Anglo-American philosophical literature. There have been four broad views: God or a soul is necessary for meaning in our lives; neither is necessary for it; one or both would greatly enhance the meaning in our lives; one or both would substantially detract from it. This Element familiarizes readers with all four positions, paying particular attention to the latter two, and also presents prima facie objections to them, points out gaps in research agendas and suggests argumentative strategies that merit development.

124. Abs: Abs | Goog: Goog | GoogSchol: GS | DOI: 10.1172/jci29253 | Journal Impact Factor | Journal Metrics | Article Metrics
Title: Power, Sex, Suicide Mitochondria and the Meaning of Life
Author(s): Eric A. Schon
Cites per Year: 7 Cites: 126 Year: 2006 Journal: Journal of Clinical Investigation J-Rnks 1-3: 257 | 5.117 | 527
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125. Abs: Abs | Goog: Goog | GoogSchol: GS | DOI: 10.2307/1387379 | Journal Impact Factor | Journal Metrics | Article Metrics
Title: Religiosity, life meaning and wellbeing: Some relationships in a sample of women.
Author(s): Chamberlain, K. and Zika, S.
Cites per Year: 7 Cites: 243 Year: 1988 Journal: ‘ J-Rnks 1-3: 0 | |
Abstract Text: Not Available – Click on ABS link above.

126. Abs: Abs | Goog: Goog | GoogSchol: GS | DOI: 10.5040/9781472546289 | Journal Impact Factor | Journal Metrics | Article Metrics
Title: Deleuze and the Meaning of Life
Author(s): Colebrook, Claire
Cites per Year: 7 Cites: 98 Year: 2010 Journal: ‘ J-Rnks 1-3: 0 | |
Abstract Text: Introduction: The Problem of Vitalism: ActivePassive 1. Brain, System, Model: The Affective Turn 2. Vitalism and Theoria 3. Inorganic Art 4. Inorganic Vitalism 5. The Vital Order After Theory 6.On Becoming 7. Living Systems, Extended Minds, Gaia Conclusion.

127. Abs: Abs | Goog: Goog | GoogSchol: GS | DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-05062-1 | Journal Impact Factor | Journal Metrics | Article Metrics
Title: THE BEGINNING AND THE END: The Meaning of Life in a Cosmological Perspective
Author(s): Vidal, C.
Cites per Year: 6 Cites: 71 Year: 2014 Journal: ‘ J-Rnks 1-3: 0 | |
Abstract Text: Where does it all come from? Where are we going? Are we alone in the universe? What is good and what is evil? The scientific narrative of cosmic evolution demands that we tackle such big questions with a cosmological perspective. I tackle the first question in Chapters 4-6; the second in Chapters 7-8; the third in Chapter 9 and the fourth in Chapter 10. However, where do we start to answer such questions? In Chapters 1-3, I elaborate the concept of worldview and argue that we should aim at constructing comprehensive and coherent worldviews. In Chapter 4, I identify seven fundamental challenges to any ultimate explanation. I conclude that our explanations tend to fall in two cognitive attractors, the point or the cycle. In Chapter 5, I focus on the free parameters issue, while Chapter 6 is a critical analysis of the fine-tuning issue. I conclude that fine-tuning is a conjecture and that we need to further study how typical our universe is. This opens a research endeavor that I call artificial cosmogenesis. In Chapter 7, I show the importance of artificial cosmogenesis from extrapolating the future of scientific simulations. I then analyze two other evolutionary explanations of fine-tuning in Chapter 8: Cosmological Natural Selection and the broader scenario of Cosmological Artificial Selection. In Chapter 9, I inquire into the search for extraterrestrials and conclude that some binary star systems are good candidates. Since those putative beings feed on stars, I call them starivores. The question of their artificiality remains open, but I propose a prize to further continue and motivate the scientific assessment of this hypothesis. In Chapter 10, I explore foundations to build a cosmological ethics and conclude that the ultimate good is the infinite continuation of the evolutionary process. Appendix I summarizes my position and Appendix II provides argumentative maps of the entire thesis.

128. Abs: Abs | Goog: Goog | GoogSchol: GS | DOI: 10.1016/j.ijintrel.2008.08.002 | Journal Impact Factor | Journal Metrics | Article Metrics
Title: Meaning of life as a protective factor of positive affect in acculturation: A resilience framework and a cross-cultural comparison
Author(s): Pan, J.Y.
Cites per Year: 6 Cites: 109 Year: 2008 Journal: International Journal of Intercultural Relations J-Rnks 1-3: 5713 | 0.824 | 94
Abstract Text: Not Available – Click on ABS link above.

129. Abs: Abs | Goog: Goog | GoogSchol: GS | DOI: 10.1007/s11205-004-4644-7 | Journal Impact Factor | Journal Metrics | Article Metrics
Title: The divergent meanings of life satisfaction: Item response modeling of the satisfaction with life scale in Greenland and Norway
Author(s): Vittersø, J.
Cites per Year: 6 Cites: 125 Year: 2005 Journal: Social Indicators Research J-Rnks 1-3: 4324 | 0.984 | 126
Abstract Text: Not Available – Click on ABS link above.

130. Abs: Abs | Goog: Goog | GoogSchol: GS | DOI: 10.1080/09515070.2016.1274253 | Journal Impact Factor | Journal Metrics | Article Metrics
Title: Wisdom at the end of life: Hospice patients reflections on the meaning of life and death
Author(s): Wright, ST .et al
Cites per Year: 6 Cites: 43 Year: 2018 Journal: ‘ J-Rnks 1-3: 0 | |
Abstract Text: … This qualitative study explored 15 terminally ill hospice patients’ perspectives on wisdom, the dying process, and the meaning of life using consensual qualitative research methods. …

131. Abs: Abs | Goog: Goog | GoogSchol: GS | DOI: 10.1080/13538322.2014.978136 | Journal Impact Factor | Journal Metrics | Article Metrics
Title: Factors affecting study-related burnout among Finnish university students: teaching-learning environment, achievement motivation and the meaning of life
Author(s): Meriläinen, M
Cites per Year: 6 Cites: 66 Year: 2014 Journal: ‘ J-Rnks 1-3: 0 | |
Abstract Text: … In this regard, perceived meaning of life is a potential mediator of students’ burnout. Positive perceptions of the meaning of life directly explain lower study-related burnout and indirectly …

132. Abs: Abs | Goog: Goog | GoogSchol: GS | DOI: 10.1007/s10902-010-9201-2 | Journal Impact Factor | Journal Metrics | Article Metrics
Title: Is the meaning of life also the meaning of death? A terror management perspective reply
Author(s): Taubman-Ben-Ari, O
Cites per Year: 6 Cites: 83 Year: 2011 Journal: ‘ J-Rnks 1-3: 0 | |
Abstract Text: … Though this research did not deal with the meaning of life, … to mortality salience with increased meaning of life (Routledge et al… between the perceived meaning of life and thoughts about …

133. Abs: Abs | Goog: Goog | GoogSchol: GS | DOI: 10.4324/9780203146286-27 | Journal Impact Factor | Journal Metrics | Article Metrics
Title: Meaning-in-Life Measures and Development of a Brief Version of the Personal Meaning Pro le
Author(s):
Cites per Year: 6 Cites: 71 Year: 2013 Journal: ‘ J-Rnks 1-3: 0 | |
Abstract Text: Not Available – Click on ABS link above.

134. Abs: Abs | Goog: Goog | GoogSchol: GS | DOI: 10.1007/BF03026782 | Journal Impact Factor | Journal Metrics | Article Metrics
Title: Hope and the meaning of life as influences on Korean adolescents resilience: Implications for counselors
Author(s): Kim, TH .et al
Cites per Year: 6 Cites: 115 Year: 2005 Journal: ‘ J-Rnks 1-3: 0 | |
Abstract Text: … That is, hope and meaning of life variables are … and meaning of life variables with other main protective variables, the findings of the present study indicate that hope and meaning of life …

135. Abs: Abs | Goog: Goog | GoogSchol: GS | DOI: 10.1007/BF02274181 | Journal Impact Factor | Journal Metrics | Article Metrics
Title: On the search for meaning
Author(s): Lacocque, Pierre-Emmanuel
Cites per Year: 6 Cites: 241 Year: 1982 Journal: Journal of Religion and Health J-Rnks 1-3: 6050 | 0.793 | 52
Abstract Text: Not Available – Click on ABS link above.

136. Abs: Abs | Goog: Goog | GoogSchol: GS | DOI: 10.5040/9781472564658 | Journal Impact Factor | Journal Metrics | Article Metrics
Title: Law’s Meaning of Life : Philosophy, Religion, Darwin and the Legal Person
Author(s):
Cites per Year: 6 Cites: 88 Year: 2009 Journal: ‘ J-Rnks 1-3: 0 | |
Abstract Text: Not Available – Click on ABS link above.

137. Abs: Abs | Goog: Goog | GoogSchol: GS | DOI: 10.4324/9780203146286-24 | Journal Impact Factor | Journal Metrics | Article Metrics
Title: e Construction of Meaning From Life Events: Empirical Studies of Personal Narratives
Author(s):
Cites per Year: 6 Cites: 66 Year: 2013 Journal: ‘ J-Rnks 1-3: 0 | |
Abstract Text: Not Available – Click on ABS link above.

138. Abs: Abs | Goog: Goog | GoogSchol: GS | DOI: 10.3390/healthcare10020188 | Journal Impact Factor | Journal Metrics | Article Metrics
Title: Effects of a Reminiscence Program on Meaning of Life, Sense of Coherence and Coping in Older Women Living in Nursing Homes during COVID-19
Author(s): Sales, A.
Cites per Year: 5 Cites: 16 Year: 2022 Journal: Healthcare (Switzerland) J-Rnks 1-3: 9398 | 0.550 | 48
Abstract Text: Aging is a dynamic process that can bring well-being but also physical and cognitive decline. Older adults can draw on their personal resources to help them cope and thrive through the aging process. Having personal resources to cope and ensure older adults’ well-being is important. Psychological strengths such as a sense of coherence, resilience, and coping are protective against the adversity associated with health problems such as those stemming from the COVID-19 pandemic. Our study’s purpose was to investigate the usefulness of reminiscence therapy for older women living in nursing homes during the COVID-19 pandemic. A sample composed of 29 older women was evaluated with the Purpose-in-Life Test (PIL), Sense of Coherence (SOC-13) and Brief Cope Inventory (COPE-28). Our reminiscence program consisted of 10 sessions lasting 60 min each. Reminiscence therapy is a psychological intervention for older adults to assist in remembering and interpreting the life events, feelings, and thoughts that define and give meaning to the person’s life. Reminiscence can lead to positive mental health and other elements of particular relevance to older adults. In each session, we worked on a different theme that promoted the memory of positive emotions: optimal experience, decisive moment, stresses, tensions, problems and solutions, memories of childhood, adolescence, maturity, significant people in life, sense of life, and future script. We compared an intervention group (n = 12) with a control group (n = 17) using a pre-post, single-blind design. Significant results were obtained and showed that reminiscence therapy was effective in increasing meaning of life, sense of coherence, and coping in older women. The reminiscence therapy applied yielded positive effects in older female participants living in a nursing home during COVID-19 pandemic.

139. Abs: Abs | Goog: Goog | GoogSchol: GS | DOI: 10.5860/choice.43-4653 | Journal Impact Factor | Journal Metrics | Article Metrics
Title: Power, Sex, Suicide: Mitochondria and the Meaning of Life
Author(s): Nick Lane
Cites per Year: 5 Cites: 97 Year: 2006 Journal: ‘ J-Rnks 1-3: 0 | |
Abstract Text: Not Available – Click on ABS link above.

140. Abs: Abs | Goog: Goog | GoogSchol: GS | DOI: 10.1111/j.1747-9991.2007.00061.x | Journal Impact Factor | Journal Metrics | Article Metrics
Title: New developments in the meaning of life
Author(s): Metz, T
Cites per Year: 5 Cites: 91 Year: 2007 Journal: ‘ J-Rnks 1-3: 0 | |
Abstract Text: In this article I survey philosophical literature on the topic of what, if anything, makes a persons life meaningful, focusing on systematic texts that are written in English and that have …

141. Abs: Abs | Goog: Goog | GoogSchol: GS | DOI: 10.1177/1049909114546208 | Journal Impact Factor | Journal Metrics | Article Metrics
Title: The effect of social support and meaning of life on the quality-of-life care for terminally ill patients
Author(s): Dobríková, P .et al
Cites per Year: 5 Cites: 50 Year: 2015 Journal: ‘ J-Rnks 1-3: 0 | |
Abstract Text: … higher the level of QOL of the patient, the deeper the meaning of life he or she experiences. … and meaning of life support the thinking of other authors who reported the meaning of life as …

142. Abs: Abs | Goog: Goog | GoogSchol: GS | DOI: 10.1007/s12671-024-02404-8 | Journal Impact Factor | Journal Metrics | Article Metrics
Title: Mindfulness meditation and the meaning of life
Author(s): Hanner, O
Cites per Year: 5 Cites: 5 Year: 2024 Journal: ‘ J-Rnks 1-3: 0 | |
Abstract Text: … by examining the question of what kinds of life-meanings are made available by Buddhist doctrine, considering the two alternatives of a cosmic, human-independent meaning of life …

143. Abs: Abs | Goog: Goog | GoogSchol: GS | DOI: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199235018.003.0016 | Journal Impact Factor | Journal Metrics | Article Metrics
Title: The Phenomenology of Mood and the Meaning of Life
Author(s): Ratcliffe, M.
Cites per Year: 5 Cites: 75 Year: 2010 Journal: ‘ J-Rnks 1-3: 0 | |
Abstract Text: Not Available – Click on ABS link above.

144. Abs: Abs | Goog: Goog | GoogSchol: GS | DOI: 10.1039/d2gc02761e | Journal Impact Factor | Journal Metrics | Article Metrics
Title: The meaning of life … cycles: lessons from and for safe by design studies
Author(s): Guinée, J.B.
Cites per Year: 5 Cites: 15 Year: 2022 Journal: Green Chemistry J-Rnks 1-3: 1368 | 1.959 | 255
Abstract Text: The meaning of the term ‘life cycle’ in relation to chemical, material and product in Safe-by-Design (SbD) studies is discussed. We recommend including explicit definitions and graphical representations of life cycles in future SbD work.

145. Abs: Abs | Goog: Goog | GoogSchol: GS | DOI: 10.1017/S1478951522000979 | Journal Impact Factor | Journal Metrics | Article Metrics
Title: Perceptions of the meaning of life among Korean patients with advanced cancer: A mixed-methods study
Author(s): Koh, S.J.
Cites per Year: 5 Cites: 10 Year: 2023 Journal: Palliative and Supportive Care J-Rnks 1-3: 6818 | 0.724 | 56
Abstract Text: Abstract Objective This study aimed to explore perceptions of the meaning of life among Korean patients living with advanced cancer. Method The study employed a mixed-methods design, and 16 participants were included in the analysis. Qualitative data gathered from in-depth interviews were analyzed using Colaizzis phenomenological method. Quantitative survey data were analyzed using descriptive statistics, the Mann–Whitney U test, the Kruskal–Wallis test, and Spearmans ρ correlation. Results Participants experienced both the existence of meaning and the will to find meaning in terms of four categories: “interpersonal relationships based on attachment and cohesion” (three themes — family as the core meaning of ones life, supportive and dependent interconnectedness with significant others, and existential responsibility embedded in familism), “therapeutic relationships based on trust” (one theme — communication and trust between the patient and medical staff), “optimism” (two themes — positivity embodied through past experiences and a positive attitude toward the current situation), and “a sense of purpose with advanced cancer” (two themes — the will to survive and expectations for the near future). The meaning in life questionnaire (MLQ) and the purpose in life scale (PIL) showed a significant positive correlation tendency with the functional assessment of chronic illness therapy-spiritual well-being scale (FACIT-Sp). The patient health questionnaire (PHQ-9) showed significant negative correlation tendency with both the MLQ-presence of meaning (MLQ-PM) and PIL-Initiative (PIL-I) questionnaires. Significance of results Finding meaning in life helps advanced cancer patients realize their will to live. It also acts as a coping mechanism that palliates negative experiences in the fight against the disease. In particular, among advanced cancer patients in the Korean culture, the dynamics of relationships with family and medical staff was a key axis that instilled optimism and will to live. These results suggest that considering the meaning of life in advanced cancer patients by reflecting Korean culture in the treatment process improves the quality of care.

146. Abs: Abs | Goog: Goog | GoogSchol: GS | DOI: 10.2466/pr0.1980.46.2.387 | Journal Impact Factor | Journal Metrics | Article Metrics
Title: Categorization of college students meaning of life
Author(s): Devogler, KL and Ebersole, P
Cites per Year: 5 Cites: 224 Year: 1980 Journal: ‘ J-Rnks 1-3: 0 | |
Abstract Text: This study was designed to develop meaning-in-life categories which have adequate interrater reliability and stability over time. Also of interest were the categories which college …

147. Abs: Abs | Goog: Goog | GoogSchol: GS | DOI: 10.1007/3-540-54444-5_104 | Journal Impact Factor | Journal Metrics | Article Metrics
Title: Towards a meaning of LIFE
Author(s): Aït-Kaci, H and Podelski, A
Cites per Year: 5 Cites: 169 Year: 1991 Journal: ‘ J-Rnks 1-3: 0 | |
Abstract Text: … that will give a full account of the complete meaning Of LIFE. The purpose of this document is … In essence, our quest for the meaning of LIFE has put their ideas and ours together. To …

148. Abs: Abs | Goog: Goog | GoogSchol: GS | DOI: 10.2307/3528378 | Journal Impact Factor | Journal Metrics | Article Metrics
Title: Is More Life Always Better?: The New Biology of Aging and the Meaning of Life
Author(s): Gems, D
Cites per Year: 5 Cites: 108 Year: 2003 Journal: ‘ J-Rnks 1-3: 0 | |
Abstract Text: The social consequences of extending the human life span might be quite bad; perhaps the worst outcome is that power could be concentrated into ever fewer hands, as those who …

149. Abs: Abs | Goog: Goog | GoogSchol: GS | DOI: 10.1080/17439760600566008 | Journal Impact Factor | Journal Metrics | Article Metrics
Title: Structural properties of personal meaning systems: A new approach to measuring meaning of life
Author(s): Pöhlmann, K .et al
Cites per Year: 5 Cites: 93 Year: 2006 Journal: ‘ J-Rnks 1-3: 0 | |
Abstract Text: … This article introduces a new qualitative–quantitative approach to assess meaning of life. … of personal meaning systems can be a promising new approach to measure meaning of life. …

150. Abs: Abs | Goog: Goog | GoogSchol: GS | DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-41397-6_4 | Journal Impact Factor | Journal Metrics | Article Metrics
Title: Working with Meaning in Life in Mental Health Care: A Systematic Literature Review of the Practices and Effectiveness of Meaning-Centred Therapies
Author(s): Vos, Joel
Cites per Year: 5 Cites: 44 Year: 2016 Journal: ‘ J-Rnks 1-3: 0 | |
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151. Abs: Abs | Goog: Goog | GoogSchol: GS | DOI: 10.1007/s11569-009-0079-6 | Journal Impact Factor | Journal Metrics | Article Metrics
Title: Playing god in frankensteins footsteps: Synthetic biology and the meaning of life
Author(s): Belt, H. van den
Cites per Year: 5 Cites: 77 Year: 2009 Journal: NanoEthics J-Rnks 1-3: 15301 | 0.295 | 33
Abstract Text: The emergent new science of synthetic biology is challenging entrenched distinctions between, amongst others, life and non-life, the natural and the artificial, the evolved and the designed, and even the material and the informational. Whenever such culturally sanctioned boundaries are breached, researchers are inevitably accused of playing God or treading in Frankenstein’s footsteps. Bioethicists, theologians and editors of scientific journals feel obliged to provide an authoritative answer to the ambiguous question of the ‘meaning’ of life, both as a scientific definition and as an explication with wider existential connotations. This article analyses the arguments mooted in the emerging societal debates on synthetic biology and the way its practitioners respond to criticism, mostly by assuming a defiant posture or professing humility. It explores the relationship between the ‘playing God’ theme and the Frankenstein motif and examines the doctrinal status of the ‘playing God’ argument. One particularly interesting finding is that liberal theologians generally deny the religious character of the ‘playing God’ argument—a response which fits in with the curious fact that this argument is used mainly by secular organizations. Synthetic biology, it is therefore maintained, does not offend so much the God of the Bible as a deified Nature. While syntheses of artificial life forms cause some vague uneasiness that life may lose its special meaning, most concerns turn out to be narrowly anthropocentric. As long as synthetic biology creates only new microbial life and does not directly affect human life, it will in all likelihood be considered acceptable.

152. Abs: Abs | Goog: Goog | GoogSchol: GS | DOI: 10.1093/hrlr/ngs002 | Journal Impact Factor | Journal Metrics | Article Metrics
Title: The meaning of life: Dignity and the right to life in international human rights treaties
Author(s): Wicks, E.
Cites per Year: 5 Cites: 62 Year: 2012 Journal: Human Rights Law Review J-Rnks 1-3: 15886 | 0.278 | 39
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153. Abs: Abs | Goog: Goog | GoogSchol: GS | DOI: 10.1080/15665399.2011.10820058 | Journal Impact Factor | Journal Metrics | Article Metrics
Title: The God Instinct: The Psychology of Souls, Destiny and the Meaning of Life
Author(s): Jonathan Jong
Cites per Year: 5 Cites: 66 Year: 2011 Journal: ‘ J-Rnks 1-3: 0 | |
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154. Abs: Abs | Goog: Goog | GoogSchol: GS | DOI: 10.1080/05568640509485167 | Journal Impact Factor | Journal Metrics | Article Metrics
Title: On luck, responsibility and the meaning of life
Author(s): Brogaard, B and Smith, B
Cites per Year: 5 Cites: 94 Year: 2005 Journal: ‘ J-Rnks 1-3: 0 | |
Abstract Text: A meaningful life, we shall argue, is a life upon which a certain sort of valuable pattern has been imposed by the person in question—a pattern which involves in serious ways the …

155. Abs: Abs | Goog: Goog | GoogSchol: GS | DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2022.957782 | Journal Impact Factor | Journal Metrics | Article Metrics
Title: Meaning of life as a resource for coping with psychological crisis: Comparisons of suicidal and non-suicidal patients
Author(s): Kalashnikova, O.
Cites per Year: 5 Cites: 14 Year: 2022 Journal: Frontiers in Psychology J-Rnks 1-3: 5069 | 0.891 | 157
Abstract Text: IntroductionMeaning is an important psychological resource both in situations of accomplishment and in situations of ongoing adversity and psychological crisis. Meaning in life underlies the reasons for staying alive both in everyday and in critical circumstances, fulfilling a buffering function with respect to life adversities.AimThe aim of the present study was to reveal the role of both meaningfulness, including specific sources of meaning and reasons for living, and meaninglessness (alienation) in patients suffering from profound crisis situations with or without suicidal intentions and behavior.MethodsThe sample included 148 patients (all Caucasian) who were referred to a crisis center in Moscow, Russia. Seventy-seven patients (54 females, mean age 32.00 ± 11.98 years) reported a current crisis situation in their life but denied suicidal thoughts or behavior. Twenty-nine patients (21 females, mean age 31.55 ± 13.76 years) reported suicidal ideations but denied suicidal attempts or self-harming behavior. Forty-two patients (31 females, mean age 30.64 ± 11.38 years) had episodes of suicidal attempts or self-harming behavior accompanied by suicidal intentions. There were no significant gender or age differences between groups.Participants completed a number of measures of different aspects of meaning and meaninglessness, well-being, ill-being and psychological resources. For some patients (N = 74), a clinical checklist was completed by their doctors assessing 28 various characteristics associated with the patient’s clinical status.Results and discussionMeaningfulness and reasons for living were more helpful in distinguishing between reactions to profound crisis situations (suicidal intentions versus non-suicidal behavior) than were measures of well-being, ill-being, meaning crisis or personality resources. In both suicidal and non-suicidal crisis patients meaningfulness predicted more positive reasons for living. The relationship between meaningfulness and most reasons for living remained significant after controlling for clinically appraised suicidal “readiness,” acute stress and lack of social support. Self-transcendence was the major specific source of meaning predicting higher reasons for living after adjusting for general meaningfulness.ConclusionThe data cast some light on the psychological meaning of suicide. It follows that prevention efforts are to be focused not on eliminating the factors “pushing” one to suicidal behavior, but rather on supporting inner strengths conducive of a positive decision, to be, through enhancing meaningfulness and reasons for living.

156. Abs: Abs | Goog: Goog | GoogSchol: GS | DOI: 10.1188/12.ONF.E480-E488 | Journal Impact Factor | Journal Metrics | Article Metrics
Title: The meaning of life intervention for patients with advanced-stage cancer: Development and pilot study
Author(s): Mok, E.
Cites per Year: 5 Cites: 60 Year: 2012 Journal: Oncology Nursing Forum J-Rnks 1-3: 9168 | 0.565 | 95
Abstract Text: The Meaning of Life Intervention represents a potentially effective and efficient intervention that is feasible for implementation by nursing staff for patients with advanced-stage cancer in a palliative care setting.

157. Abs: Abs | Goog: Goog | GoogSchol: GS | DOI: 10.1177/1468017314550748 | Journal Impact Factor | Journal Metrics | Article Metrics
Title: On the meaning of life: A qualitative interpretive meta synthesis of the lived experience of life without parole
Author(s): Sliva, SM
Cites per Year: 5 Cites: 46 Year: 2015 Journal: ‘ J-Rnks 1-3: 0 | |
Abstract Text: This Qualitative Interpretive Meta Synthesis (QIMS) develops a more complete understanding of the lived experience of serving a Life Without Parole (LWOP) sentence by synthesizing …

158. Abs: Abs | Goog: Goog | GoogSchol: GS | DOI: 10.1093/bjsw/bcv144 | Journal Impact Factor | Journal Metrics | Article Metrics
Title: Assessing Meaning in Life in Social Work Practice: Validation of the Meaning in Life Questionnaire among Clinical Samples
Author(s): Chan, Wallace Chi Ho
Cites per Year: 5 Cites: 41 Year: 2016 Journal: British Journal of Social Work J-Rnks 1-3: 8231 | 0.621 | 90
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159. Abs: Abs | Goog: Goog | GoogSchol: GS | DOI: 10.2190/0CKD-PVQ0-T260-NTXU | Journal Impact Factor | Journal Metrics | Article Metrics
Title: Making meaning of life events: Theory, evidence, and research directions for an alternative model
Author(s): O’Connor, MF
Cites per Year: 5 Cites: 99 Year: 2003 Journal: ‘ J-Rnks 1-3: 0 | |
Abstract Text: … Although the importance of seeing the meaning of life events has a long history, the process of how individuals make meaning, especially after a traumatic event, is not well understood. …

160. Abs: Abs | Goog: Goog | GoogSchol: GS | DOI: 10.1007/s10902-022-00592-5 | Journal Impact Factor | Journal Metrics | Article Metrics
Title: How the COVID-19 Pandemic and its Consequences Affect the Presence of and Search for Meaning of Life: A Longitudinal Study
Author(s): Baños, R.M.
Cites per Year: 5 Cites: 9 Year: 2023 Journal: Journal of Happiness Studies J-Rnks 1-3: 2073 | 1.528 | 95
Abstract Text: AbstractThe presence of meaning in life (PML) and the search for meaning in life (SML) are crucial when facing difficult times. Although several theoretical frameworks have tried to explain the dynamics of meaning in life during adversity, empirical evidence about interactions among both constructs using longitudinal designs is scarce. This study examined the trajectories of both PML and SML during the COVID-19 lockdown period in Spain. In total, 220 adults fulfilled an online survey during two periods: a strict and a relaxed lockdown period. Latent growth models showed that both PML and SML declined slightly during the strict lockdown, but they reached a plateau during the relaxed lockdown. Results also showed that age and having a partner predicted higher PML and lower SML at baseline, whereas being male predicted higher scores on PML. PML and SML were negatively associated at baseline, higher SML at baseline was related to a steeper decreasing PML slope during the strict lockdown, and the PML and SML slopes in the relaxed lockdown period were negatively related. This study contributes to better understanding longitudinal fluctuations of meaning in life in situations of adversity.

161. Abs: Abs | Goog: Goog | GoogSchol: GS | DOI: 10.1037/0000083-000 | Journal Impact Factor | Journal Metrics | Article Metrics
Title: Meaning in life: A therapist’s guide.
Author(s): Hill, Clara E.
Cites per Year: 4 Cites: 31 Year: 2018 Journal: ‘ J-Rnks 1-3: 0 | |
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162. Abs: Abs | Goog: Goog | GoogSchol: GS | DOI: 10.4081/mi.2018.7420 | Journal Impact Factor | Journal Metrics | Article Metrics
Title: Addiction and religiosity in facing suicide: A qualitative study on meaning of life and death among homeless people
Author(s): Testoni, I.
Cites per Year: 4 Cites: 30 Year: 2018 Journal: Mental Illness J-Rnks 1-3: 18413 | 0.216 | 16
Abstract Text: This qualitative research explores the relationship between religiosity, suicide thoughts and drug abuse among 55 homeless people, interviewed with interpretative phenomenological analysis. Analyzing the thematic structure of the participants’ narrations, important main themes appeared in order to avoid suicide, among which family, the certainty of finding a solution and the will to live. However, the suicide ideation inheres in about 30% of participants, almost all believers, addicted andor alcoholics. Results suggest that religiosity and meaning of death neither prevent from substances abuse and alcoholism, nor is a protective factor against suicide ideation. Meanings of life are the most important reasons for living, and when they are definitively considered unworkable, alcohol and drug help to endure life in the street. A specific model is discussed.

163. Abs: Abs | Goog: Goog | GoogSchol: GS | DOI: 10.1111/ijn.12198 | Journal Impact Factor | Journal Metrics | Article Metrics
Title: The meaning of life and health experience for the C hinese elderly with chronic illness: A qualitative study from positive health philosophy
Author(s): Zhang, H .et al
Cites per Year: 4 Cites: 47 Year: 2014 Journal: ‘ J-Rnks 1-3: 0 | |
Abstract Text: … The aim of the study was to investigate the meaning of life … Four interrelated themes indicated a rich meaning of life and … presented a dialectic meaning of life and were interpreted from …

164. Abs: Abs | Goog: Goog | GoogSchol: GS | DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2021.726150 | Journal Impact Factor | Journal Metrics | Article Metrics
Title: Meaning Reflectivity in Later Life: The Relationship Between Reflecting on Meaning in Life, Presence and Search for Meaning, and Depressive Symptoms in Older Adults Over the Age of 75
Author(s): Dewitte, Laura and Dezutter, Jessie
Cites per Year: 4 Cites: 17 Year: 2021 Journal: Frontiers in Psychology J-Rnks 1-3: 5069 | 0.891 | 157
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165. Abs: Abs | Goog: Goog | GoogSchol: GS | DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4939-0308-5_14 | Journal Impact Factor | Journal Metrics | Article Metrics
Title: Meaning in Life and Coping: Sense of Meaning as a Buffer Against Stress
Author(s): Halama, Peter
Cites per Year: 4 Cites: 46 Year: 2014 Journal: ‘ J-Rnks 1-3: 0 | |
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166. Abs: Abs | Goog: Goog | GoogSchol: GS | DOI: 10.5860/choice.34-0603 | Journal Impact Factor | Journal Metrics | Article Metrics
Title: Self Expressions: Mind, Morals, and the Meaning of Life
Author(s):
Cites per Year: 4 Cites: 121 Year: 1996 Journal: ‘ J-Rnks 1-3: 0 | |
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167. Abs: Abs | Goog: Goog | GoogSchol: GS | DOI: 10.1080/17439760.2019.1639793 | Journal Impact Factor | Journal Metrics | Article Metrics
Title: Implicit meaning in life: The assessment and construct validity of implicit meaning in life and relations with explicit meaning in life and depression
Author(s): Huo, Jun-Yu .et al
Cites per Year: 4 Cites: 25 Year: 2019 Journal: Journal of Positive Psychology J-Rnks 1-3: 1723 | 1.701 | 92
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168. Abs: Abs | Goog: Goog | GoogSchol: GS | DOI: 10.1007/s10892-019-09296-0 | Journal Impact Factor | Journal Metrics | Article Metrics
Title: The meaning of life, equality and eternity
Author(s): Persson, I and Savulescu, J
Cites per Year: 4 Cites: 25 Year: 2019 Journal: ‘ J-Rnks 1-3: 0 | |
Abstract Text: … We present an analysis of a notion of the meaning of life, according to which our lives have meaning if we spend them intentionally producing what has value for ourselves or others. In …

169. Abs: Abs | Goog: Goog | GoogSchol: GS | DOI: 10.1007/s12144-022-04031-9 | Journal Impact Factor | Journal Metrics | Article Metrics
Title: Meaning in life, life role importance, life strain, and life satisfaction
Author(s): Wolfram, Hans-Joachim
Cites per Year: 4 Cites: 12 Year: 2022 Journal: Current Psychology J-Rnks 1-3: 7648 | 0.661 | 54
Abstract Text: Abstract: This study aimed at examining assumptions from Frankl’s (1946/1998) logotherapy and existential analysis. Using an online questionnaire with

170. Abs: Abs | Goog: Goog | GoogSchol: GS | DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2023.112249 | Journal Impact Factor | Journal Metrics | Article Metrics
Title: Relational dynamics and meaning in life: Dominance predicts perceived social support, belongingness, and meaning in life
Author(s): Moynihan, Andrew B. .et al
Cites per Year: 4 Cites: 8 Year: 2023 Journal: Personality and Individual Differences J-Rnks 1-3: 2235 | 1.463 | 193
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171. Abs: Abs | Goog: Goog | GoogSchol: GS | DOI: 10.4324/9781315385945-26 | Journal Impact Factor | Journal Metrics | Article Metrics
Title: Wittgenstein and the meaning of life
Author(s): Hosseini, Reza
Cites per Year: 4 Cites: 28 Year: 2018 Journal: ‘ J-Rnks 1-3: 0 | |
Abstract Text: … In “A Lecture on Ethics,” he goes on to claim that writing about value or the meaning of life … if we were to write the true book on the meaning of life we would need to dismantle the whole …

172. Abs: Abs | Goog: Goog | GoogSchol: GS | DOI: 10.34291/BV2021/04/Zalec | Journal Impact Factor | Journal Metrics | Article Metrics
Title: Existential Hope and Meaning of Life, and Resonance
Author(s): Žalec, B.
Cites per Year: 4 Cites: 16 Year: 2021 Journal: Bogoslovni Vestnik J-Rnks 1-3: 14875 | 0.308 | 13
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173. Abs: Abs | Goog: Goog | GoogSchol: GS | DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2022.878531 | Journal Impact Factor | Journal Metrics | Article Metrics
Title: Self-Disclosure and Post-traumatic Growth in Korean Adults: A Multiple Mediating Model of Deliberate Rumination, Positive Social Responses, and Meaning of Life
Author(s): Ryu, J.H.
Cites per Year: 4 Cites: 12 Year: 2022 Journal: Frontiers in Psychology J-Rnks 1-3: 5069 | 0.891 | 157
Abstract Text: BackgroundTo explore how self-disclosure leads to post-traumatic growth (PTG) in adults who have experienced traumatic events, this study identified the relationship between self-disclosure and post-traumatic growth in Korean adults. We examined a parallel multiple mediating model for this relationship.MethodsParticipants were 318 Korean male and female adult participants aged 20 years or older who had experienced trauma. We measured deliberate rumination, positive social responses, and the meaning of life as mediating variables.ResultsThe results revealed that the study variables positively correlated with PTG. Self-disclosure was positively correlated with deliberate rumination, positive social responses, and meaning of life. In the multiple mediating model, deliberate rumination, positive social responses, and meaning of life mediated the relationship between self-disclosure and PTG.ConclusionSelf-disclosure, deliberate rumination, positive social responses, and meaning of life play an important role in the growth of adults who have experienced traumatic events. The findings of this study should provide valuable information for future research and for mental health professionals who want to promote the PTG of their clients.

174. Abs: Abs | Goog: Goog | GoogSchol: GS | DOI: 10.1097/jnr.0000000000000514 | Journal Impact Factor | Journal Metrics | Article Metrics
Title: Exploring Meaning of Life in Women With Breast Cancer in Taiwan: A Phenomenological Study
Author(s): Sun, F.K.
Cites per Year: 4 Cites: 12 Year: 2022 Journal: Journal of nursing research : JNR J-Rnks 1-3: 0 | 7493 | 0.671
Abstract Text: Background: Globally, breast cancer is the most common cancer type in terms of incidence for women. Women with breast cancer endure higher levels of psychological distress than other types of cancer because many lose their identity as a woman, which is an additional characteristic of their psychological distress. Research using phenomenology to explore the meaning of life is rare among women with breast cancer.Purpose: The purpose of this study was to explore the perspectives of women with breast cancer on the meaning of life. Methods: A phenomenological approach was used. Twenty-six women living with breast cancer drawn from a cancer treatment hospital in Taiwan participated in this study. A semistructured interview was utilized to collect the data, and Colaizzis seven steps were used to analyze the data.Results: Four themes emerged: (a) value of overcoming suffering, (b) value of reciprocal love, (c) value of self-transcendence, and (d) value of spiritual comfort. This means that the participants defined the meaning of life through the lens of suffering from cancer, reciprocal love from their families and friends, uncovering and discovering creative pathways that transformed their pain while searching for the value of their existence, and seeking spiritual guidance from religion. Conclusions:The participants identified the most pivotal aspect of healing as transforming their pain and accepting value for their suffering. They acknowledged they could not change the fact that they had cancer, but they could learn to accept it as part of their lived experience. Healthcare professionals may use these four themes at a clinically appropriate time on womens journeys toward healing to inspire women with breast cancer to process their own unique meaning of life.

175. Abs: Abs | Goog: Goog | GoogSchol: GS | DOI: 10.1186/1477-7525-5-59 | Journal Impact Factor | Journal Metrics | Article Metrics
Title: Meaning in life in the Federal Republic of Germany: results of a representative survey with the Schedule for Meaning in Life Evaluation (SMiLE)
Author(s): Fegg, Martin J .et al
Cites per Year: 4 Cites: 71 Year: 2007 Journal: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes J-Rnks 1-3: 4258 | 0.993 | 128
Abstract Text: BackgroundThe construct meaning-in-life (MiL) has recently raised the interest of clinicians working in psycho-oncology and end-of-life care and has become a topic of scientific investigation. Difficulties regarding the measurement of MiL are related to the various theoretical and conceptual approaches and its inter-individual variability. Therefore the Schedule for Meaning in Life Evaluation (SMiLE), an individualized instrument for the assessment of MiL, was developed. The aim of this study was to evaluate MiL in a representative sample of the German population.MethodsIn the SMiLE, the respondents first indicate a minimum of three and maximum of seven areas which provide meaning to their life before rating their current level of importance and satisfaction of each area. Indices of total weighting (IoW, range 20–100), total satisfaction (IoS, range 0–100), and total weighted satisfaction (IoWS, range 0–100) are calculated.ResultsIn July 2005, 1,004 Germans were randomly selected and interviewed (inclusion rate, 85.3%). 3,521 areas of MiL were listed and assigned to 13 a-posteriori categories. The mean IoS was 81.9 ± 15.1, the mean IoW was 84.6 ± 11.9, and the mean IoWS was 82.9 ± 14.8. In youth (16–19 yo), friends were most important for MiL, in young adulthood (20–29 yo) partnership, in middle adulthood (30–39 yo) work, during retirement (60–69 yo) health and altruism, and in advanced age (70 yo and more) spiritualityreligion and nature experienceanimals.ConclusionThis study is a first nationwide survey on individual MiL in a randomly selected, representative sample. The MiL areas of the age stages seem to correspond with Eriksons stages of psychosocial development.

176. Abs: Abs | Goog: Goog | GoogSchol: GS | DOI: 10.1080/00048670701517942 | Journal Impact Factor | Journal Metrics | Article Metrics
Title: Acculturative stressor and meaning of life as predictors of negative affect in acculturation: A cross-cultural comparative study between Chinese international students in Australia and Hong Kong
Author(s): Pan, J.Y.
Cites per Year: 4 Cites: 71 Year: 2007 Journal: Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry J-Rnks 1-3: 1541 | 1.821 | 129
Abstract Text: Acculturative stressor is a critical risk factor for negative affect in acculturation for Chinese international students in Australia and Hong Kong. Meaning of life acted as a protective factor that mitigated negative affect for mainland Chinese students in Hong Kong, but not for the Chinese international students in Australia. The theoretical and practical implications for resilience-based and meaning-oriented intervention for Chinese international students are discussed.

177. Abs: Abs | Goog: Goog | GoogSchol: GS | DOI: 10.1080/17482620902864194 | Journal Impact Factor | Journal Metrics | Article Metrics
Title: Extra dimensions in all aspects of life—the meaning of life with bipolar disorder
Author(s): Rusner, M .et al
Cites per Year: 4 Cites: 63 Year: 2009 Journal: ‘ J-Rnks 1-3: 0 | |
Abstract Text: … The aim of this study is thus to explore the existential meaning of life with BD. Ten persons, six women and four men, (aged 30–61), diagnosed with BD were interviewed. A reflective …

178. Abs: Abs | Goog: Goog | GoogSchol: GS | DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2648.2003.02689_1.x | Journal Impact Factor | Journal Metrics | Article Metrics
Title: Meaning of life for adolescents with a physical disability in Korea
Author(s): Kim, SJ and Kang, KA
Cites per Year: 4 Cites: 85 Year: 2003 Journal: ‘ J-Rnks 1-3: 0 | |
Abstract Text: … Comparing these five ways to discover the meaning of life with the findings of this study, we note that disabled people can appreciate the meaning of life by meeting other people. …

179. Abs: Abs | Goog: Goog | GoogSchol: GS | DOI: 10.1080/01933920701476664 | Journal Impact Factor | Journal Metrics | Article Metrics
Title: Meaning of life group: Group application of logotherapy for substance use treatment
Author(s): Somov, PG
Cites per Year: 4 Cites: 69 Year: 2007 Journal: ‘ J-Rnks 1-3: 0 | |
Abstract Text: … The present article then introduces the Meaning of Life group protocol as a motivation-enhancing and relapse-prevention application of logotherapy for substance use treatment. …

180. Abs: Abs | Goog: Goog | GoogSchol: GS | DOI: 10.1007/978-94-007-6527-6_19 | Journal Impact Factor | Journal Metrics | Article Metrics
Title: Generativity and the meaning of life
Author(s): Aubin, E de St.
Cites per Year: 4 Cites: 45 Year: 2013 Journal: ‘ J-Rnks 1-3: 0 | |
Abstract Text: This chapter examines the manner in which generativity is one potential path to the experience of meaning in life. Generativity is the desire that emerges in adult development to …

181. Abs: Abs | Goog: Goog | GoogSchol: GS | DOI: 10.17583/ijep.2020.6784 | Journal Impact Factor | Journal Metrics | Article Metrics
Title: Depression and the meaning of life in university students in times of pandemic
Author(s): Parra, R.M.R.
Cites per Year: 4 Cites: 18 Year: 2020 Journal: International Journal of Educational Psychology J-Rnks 1-3: 11876 | 0.427 | 8
Abstract Text: The emergence of the pandemic has led to fundamental social and economic swaps throughout the world, the sponsored measures taken have a significant effect on the mental health of individuals. The objective of the study was to compare the level of depression related to the meaning of life in students in times of pandemic at the Continental University of Peru and the Rafael María Baralt National Experimental University of Venezuela. The type of research developed was descriptive correlational with a cross-sectional design. The sample was made up of two groups: the first corresponds to 300 students from Peru and 300 from Venezuela. The Beck Depression Inventory and the Dimensional Sense of Life Scale, standardized version for Latin America, were used as measurement instruments. With the Spearman correlation coefficient it was determined that there is a moderate negative relationship of -.610, which indicates that there is an inverse correlation in the variables level of depression and sense of life of the students and it was concluded that, among the students university students from both countries, there is a moderate inverse significant correlation between depression and the meaning of life, in the current times of pandemic.

182. Abs: Abs | Goog: Goog | GoogSchol: GS | DOI: 10.5860/choice.42-6430 | Journal Impact Factor | Journal Metrics | Article Metrics
Title: Dawkins God: Genes, Memes, and the Meaning of Life
Author(s): Alister E. McGrath
Cites per Year: 4 Cites: 72 Year: 2005 Journal: ‘ J-Rnks 1-3: 0 | |
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183. Abs: Abs | Goog: Goog | GoogSchol: GS | DOI: 10.1007/s10790-017-9591-z | Journal Impact Factor | Journal Metrics | Article Metrics
Title: Understanding “meaning of life” in terms of reasons for action
Author(s): Višak, T
Cites per Year: 4 Cites: 28 Year: 2017 Journal: ‘ J-Rnks 1-3: 0 | |
Abstract Text: … I think that the exploration of the meaning of life would benefit from a plausible and clear conceptualization of life’s meaning. Getting clear on the concept of meaning in life is important, …

184. Abs: Abs | Goog: Goog | GoogSchol: GS | DOI: 10.1111/jopy.12793 | Journal Impact Factor | Journal Metrics | Article Metrics
Title: Individual differences in revising the life story—Personality and event characteristics influence change in the autobiographical meaning of life events
Author(s): Peters, I.
Cites per Year: 4 Cites: 7 Year: 2023 Journal: Journal of Personality J-Rnks 1-3: 1110 | 2.192 | 160
Abstract Text: AbstractObjectiveRepeated autobiographical narratives have recently received increased attention as measures of the stability of narrative identity. We propose that one way to map change in life narratives is to rate the degree to which the autobiographical meaning of renarrated events changes. We aimed to test the influence of age, traits (openness, extraversion), and event characteristics on how much autobiographical meaning changes.MethodIn waves 3 and 4 of the MainLife study, 123 participants (15–72 years) narrated their lives twice, 4 years apart. Life events that were told both times were rated for change in autobiographical meaning (n = 531). Multilevel models tested individual and event characteristics as predictors.ResultsAutobiographical meaning changed more the more individuals were open to experience, the more recently the events had happened, and the more negative emotions the event narratives contained. It was unrelated to extraversion and to the use of autobiographical arguments. A decrease in change with age was due to older individuals narrating older events.ConclusionOur findings add to understanding how traits and life story are related and underscore the need to further study the role of event characteristics for stability and change in narrative identity.

185. Abs: Abs | Goog: Goog | GoogSchol: GS | DOI: 10.1100/tsw.2003.105 | Journal Impact Factor | Journal Metrics | Article Metrics
Title: Quality of life philosophy V. Seizing the meaning of life and becoming well again
Author(s): Ventegodt, S .et al
Cites per Year: 3 Cites: 76 Year: 2003 Journal: ‘ J-Rnks 1-3: 0 | |
Abstract Text: … seizing the meaning of life and becoming … meaning of life is rather unpleasant. The really sad truth is that we have no wish to know the truth about ourselves or the deeper meaning of life…

186. Abs: Abs | Goog: Goog | GoogSchol: GS | DOI: 10.1007/s10790-011-9293-x | Journal Impact Factor | Journal Metrics | Article Metrics
Title: Immorality and the Meaning of Life
Author(s): Landau, I
Cites per Year: 3 Cites: 47 Year: 2011 Journal: ‘ J-Rnks 1-3: 0 | |
Abstract Text: … Advocates of subjectivist theories of the meaning of life imply that highly immoral lives could … This is also the case for other subjectivist theories of the meaning of life. Since on …

187. Abs: Abs | Goog: Goog | GoogSchol: GS | DOI: 10.1097/MD.0000000000016330 | Journal Impact Factor | Journal Metrics | Article Metrics
Title: Simulated directed-learning in life-education intervention on the meaning of life, positive beliefs, and well-being among nursing students: A Quasi-experimental study
Author(s): Tsai, F.J.
Cites per Year: 3 Cites: 20 Year: 2019 Journal: Medicine (United States) J-Rnks 1-3: 11116 | 0.460 | 163
Abstract Text: Nursing educators have the responsibility to equip nursing students with knowledge about the meaning of life, positive beliefs, and well-being in order to enhance their physical, psychological, spiritual, and social health education and promotion. The purpose of this study was to explore nursing students’ simulated directed-learning in a life-education intervention on the meaning of life, positive beliefs, and well-being in regard to immediate and delayed effects in improving physical, psychological, spiritual, and social health education and promotion. The method of this study was constituted a quasi-experimental design with experimental and control groups for pre-test, post-test, and post-post-test. Purposive sampling and non-random distribution were used in the study. Assigned to the experimental group, 54 participants were third-year nursing students enrolled in a health education course with simulated directed-learning in a life-education intervention. Assigned to the control group, 56 participants were third-year nursing students enrolled in a caring care course without simulated directed-learning in a life-education intervention. A 56-item questionnaire was utilized, and the content validity index (CVI) was 0.95, as determined by seven expert scholars. The reliability of the questionnaire (n = 45) on Cronbachs α were: meaning of life 0.96, positive beliefs 0.95, and well-being 0.96. The statistical package SPSS 23.0 was used to analyze all of the data in the study. Frequencies, percentages, pre-test mean and SD, post-test mean and SD, post-post-test mean and SD, chi-squared test, t test, and generalized estimating equation (GEE) were employed for data analysis. Nursing students in the experimental group compared with the control group exhibited significant differences in meaning of life on the pre-post-test (β = 16.40, P < .001) and pre-post post-test (β = 25.94, P < .001), positive beliefs on the pre-post-test (β = 5.64, P < .01) and pre-post post-test (β = 9.21, P < .001), and well-being on the pre-post-test (β = 14.33, P < .001) and pre-post post-test (β = 23.68, P < .001). Nursing students in the experimental group showed a significant improvement in the simulated directed-learning with a life-education intervention on meaning of life, positive beliefs, and well-being in the immediate and delayed effects that enhanced their physical, psychological, spiritual, and social health education and promotion.

188. Abs: Abs | Goog: Goog | GoogSchol: GS | DOI: 10.4324/9781003097020 | Journal Impact Factor | Journal Metrics | Article Metrics
Title: The Value and Meaning of Life
Author(s): Belshaw, Christopher
Cites per Year: 3 Cites: 16 Year: 2020 Journal: ‘ J-Rnks 1-3: 0 | |
Abstract Text: In this book Christopher Belshaw draws on earlier work concerning death, identity, animals, immortality, and extinction, and builds a large-scale argument dealing with questions of both …

189. Abs: Abs | Goog: Goog | GoogSchol: GS | DOI: 10.1007/s10699-010-9184-9 | Journal Impact Factor | Journal Metrics | Article Metrics
Title: The meaning of life in a developing universe
Author(s): Stewart, JE
Cites per Year: 3 Cites: 48 Year: 2010 Journal: ‘ J-Rnks 1-3: 0 | |
Abstract Text: The evolution of life on Earth has produced an organism that is beginning to model and understand its own evolution and the possible future evolution of life in the universe. These …

190. Abs: Abs | Goog: Goog | GoogSchol: GS | DOI: 10.3766/jaaa.19022 | Journal Impact Factor | Journal Metrics | Article Metrics
Title: An Exploratory Step Toward Measuring the Meaning of Life in Patients with Tinnitus and in Cochlear Implant Users
Author(s): Tyler, R.
Cites per Year: 3 Cites: 16 Year: 2020 Journal: Journal of the American Academy of Audiology J-Rnks 1-3: 9550 | 0.543 | 82
Abstract Text: Abstract Background Many questionnaires attempt to quantify the “quality of life.” However, we believe understanding the quality of life is complex, and many widely used questionnaires do not capture the broad range of factors that we believe are important. Many do not include questions about communicating. Purpose We developed a preliminary questionnaire designed to measure “The Meaning of Life” from a broader perspective. Research Design We reviewed other scales and sought input from individuals with disabilities and developed an initial 23-item questionnaire. Study Sample As a first step, we sampled 116 adults with tinnitus and 196 with cochlear implants (CIs). Individuals who were participating in our CI or tinnitus research programs participated. Data Collection and Analysis To compare differences between the two participant groups, independent sample f-tests were completed for specific items on the questionnaire and for the total score. We compared age and gender differences across all participants using f-tests. Statistical significance was defined as p < 0.05. An exploratory factor analysis was conducted to examine the relationship among the questionnaire items using oblique rotation to produce correlated factors. Extracted factors with an eigenvalue >1.0 were retained according to the Kaiser-Guttman rule. Results Four factors were prominent in this initial sample, which we labeled (1) friendship and positive outlook, (2) physical health, (3) hearing and mental health, and (4) satisfaction with life. Participants with tinnitus reported more trouble sleeping than participants with CI, whereas both groups had lower scores on hearing. Older patients reported more difficulty with remembering things but were more satisfied with their financial situation. Female participants reportedly had more hobbies and were more satisfied with their sex lives than male participants. Conclusions This exploratory study intended to take a broader look at quality of life scales. Further work is needed with a larger sample including younger and older participants with and without disabilities.

191. Abs: Abs | Goog: Goog | GoogSchol: GS | DOI: 10.1007/978-94-007-6527-6_5 | Journal Impact Factor | Journal Metrics | Article Metrics
Title: Trauma and Meaning Making: Converging Conceptualizations and Emerging Evidence
Author(s): Park, Crystal L.
Cites per Year: 3 Cites: 38 Year: 2013 Journal: ‘ J-Rnks 1-3: 0 | |
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192. Abs: Abs | Goog: Goog | GoogSchol: GS | DOI: 10.1016/0959-8049(95)00643-5 | Journal Impact Factor | Journal Metrics | Article Metrics
Title: Measuring the meaning of life for patients with incurable cancer: The Life Evaluation Questionnaire (LEQ)
Author(s): Salmon, P.
Cites per Year: 3 Cites: 90 Year: 1996 Journal: European Journal of Cancer J-Rnks 1-3: 660 | 2.898 | 235
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193. Abs: Abs | Goog: Goog | GoogSchol: GS | DOI: 10.2991/978-94-6463-096-1_2 | Journal Impact Factor | Journal Metrics | Article Metrics
Title: Making Meaning in Life: A Thematic Review of Successful Experimental Psychological and Psychotherapeutic Interventions
Author(s): Steger, Michael F.
Cites per Year: 3 Cites: 9 Year: 2022 Journal: ‘ J-Rnks 1-3: 0 | |
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194. Abs: Abs | Goog: Goog | GoogSchol: GS | DOI: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190063504.001.0001 | Journal Impact Factor | Journal Metrics | Article Metrics
Title: The Oxford Handbook of Meaning in Life
Author(s): Landau, Iddo
Cites per Year: 3 Cites: 9 Year: 2022 Journal: ‘ J-Rnks 1-3: 0 | |
Abstract Text: Abstract: This volume presents thirty-two essays on a wide array of topics in modern philosophical meaning in life research. The essays are organized into six parts. Part I, Understanding Meaning in Life, focuses on various ways of conceptualizing meaning in life. Among other issues, it discusses whether meaning in life should be understood objectively or subjectively, the relation between importance and meaningfulness, and whether meaningful lives should be understood narratively. Part II, Meaning in Life, Science, and Metaphysics, presents opposing views on whether neuroscience sheds light on life’s meaning, inquires whether hard determinists must see life as meaningless, and explores the relation between time, personal identity, and meaning. Part III, Meaning in Life and Religion, examines the relation between meaningfulness, mysticism, and transcendence, and considers life’s meaning from both atheist and theist perspectives. Part IV, Ethics and Meaning in Life, examines (among other issues) whether meaningful lives must be moral, how important forgiveness is for meaning, the relation between life’s meaningfulness (or meaninglessness) and procreation ethics, and whether animals have meaningful lives. Part V, Philosophical Psychology and Meaning in Life, compares philosophical and psychological research on life’s meaning, explores the experience of meaningfulness, and discusses the relation between meaningfulness and desire, love, and gratitude. Part VI, Living Meaningfully: Challenges and Prospects, elaborates on topics such as suicide, suffering, education, optimism and pessimism, and their relation to life’s meaning.

195. Abs: Abs | Goog: Goog | GoogSchol: GS | DOI: 10.1177/18344909231166758 | Journal Impact Factor | Journal Metrics | Article Metrics
Title: Growth mindset of meaning in Life: Viewing meaning in life as malleable matters
Author(s): Huang, Zhen .et al
Cites per Year: 3 Cites: 6 Year: 2023 Journal: Journal of Pacific Rim Psychology J-Rnks 1-3: 8138 | 0.628 | 21
Abstract Text: Meaning in life contributes to psychological well-being. However, few studies have adopted an implicit theory approach to studying peoples beliefs about the malleability of meaning in life. We propose the growth mindset of meaning in life (GMML) as the belief that meaning in life can be developed. In Study 1, we construct the Mindset of Meaning in Life Scale (MMLS) to measure GMML and demonstrate that GMML is distinct from growth mindset of intelligence and meaning in life. As predicted, GMML is positively associated with psychological well-being indicators, including life satisfaction and positive coping styles, and negatively correlated with ill-being measures such as depression and anxiety. In Study 2, tolerance of uncertainty was found to partially mediate the relationships between GMML and depression, anxiety, purpose in life, the presence of and search for meaning in life. Taken together, our findings suggest that GMML is a distinct construct relevant to individuals’ well-being and meaning in life.

196. Abs: Abs | Goog: Goog | GoogSchol: GS | DOI: 10.4324/9781315225852 | Journal Impact Factor | Journal Metrics | Article Metrics
Title: What is this thing called The Meaning of Life?
Author(s): Goetz, S and Seachris, JW
Cites per Year: 3 Cites: 15 Year: 2020 Journal: ‘ J-Rnks 1-3: 0 | |
Abstract Text: What are we asking when we ask, What is the meaning of life?? Can there be meaning without God? Is a happy life a meaningful life? Can an immoral life be meaningful? Does our …

197. Abs: Abs | Goog: Goog | GoogSchol: GS | DOI: 10.1080/00981389.2019.1710320 | Journal Impact Factor | Journal Metrics | Article Metrics
Title: Effect of group reminiscence therapy on depression and perceived meaning of life of veterans diagnosed with dementia at veteran homes
Author(s): Ching-Teng, Y.
Cites per Year: 3 Cites: 15 Year: 2020 Journal: Social Work in Health Care J-Rnks 1-3: 8035 | 0.635 | 48
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198. Abs: Abs | Goog: Goog | GoogSchol: GS | DOI: 10.1097/MD.0000000000019470 | Journal Impact Factor | Journal Metrics | Article Metrics
Title: The effectiveness of a health promotion intervention on the meaning of life, positive beliefs, and well-being among undergraduate nursing students: One-group experimental study
Author(s): Tsai, F.J.
Cites per Year: 3 Cites: 15 Year: 2020 Journal: Medicine (United States) J-Rnks 1-3: 11116 | 0.460 | 163
Abstract Text: Nursing educators have a responsibility to value undergraduate nursing students’ physical, psychological, spiritual, and social health promotion. The purpose of the study was to examine the effectiveness of a health promotion intervention concerning meaning of life, positive beliefs, and well-being among undergraduate nursing students in a health promotion curriculum. The study was adopted a pretest, posttest, and post post-test design in 1-group experimental study with a purposive sample of 112 undergraduate nursing students who attended in a health promotion curriculum and voluntarily completed a reliable 3-part questionnaire (content validity index = 0.95; Cronbachs αs = meaning of life, 0.97; positive beliefs, 0.94; and well-being 0.96). Undergraduate nursing students showed significant (all P < .001) improvements on the meaning of life, positive beliefs, and well-being immediately after the intervention, which were sustained over time. Nursing educators should incorporate these variables into the health promotion curriculum to enhance undergraduate nursing students’ physical, psychological, spiritual, and social health promotion.

199. Abs: Abs | Goog: Goog | GoogSchol: GS | DOI: 10.5860/choice.37-0296 | Journal Impact Factor | Journal Metrics | Article Metrics
Title: The Fifth Miracle: The Search for the Origin and Meaning of Life
Author(s): P. C. W. Davies
Cites per Year: 3 Cites: 78 Year: 1999 Journal: ‘ J-Rnks 1-3: 0 | |
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200. Abs: Abs | Goog: Goog | GoogSchol: GS | DOI: 10.1086/660988 | Journal Impact Factor | Journal Metrics | Article Metrics
Title: The meaning of life
Author(s): Anidjar, G
Cites per Year: 3 Cites: 41 Year: 2011 Journal: ‘ J-Rnks 1-3: 0 | |
Abstract Text: Executive number 2: Yeah, I’ve had a team working on this over the past few weeks, and what we’ve come up with can be reduced to two fundamental concepts. One: People aren’t …

201. Abs: Abs | Goog: Goog | GoogSchol: GS | DOI: 10.5964/ejop.4689 | Journal Impact Factor | Journal Metrics | Article Metrics
Title: The meaning of life and death in the eyes of frankl: Archetypal and terror management perspectives
Author(s): Mayer, C.H.
Cites per Year: 3 Cites: 11 Year: 2021 Journal: Europe’s Journal of Psychology J-Rnks 1-3: 9379 | 0.551 | 33
Abstract Text: This article aims to uncover the meaning of life and death across the lifespan of the extraordinary person, Viktor E. Frankl (1905–1997). Frankl was purposively sampled due to his international acclaim as an Austrian neurologist and psychiatrist, who later became famous as a holocaust survivor and the founder of logotherapy. Through his approach of “healing through meaning,” he became the founder of the meaning-centred school of psychotherapy and published many books on existential and humanistic psychology. The study describes the meaning of life and death through two theoretical approaches: the archetypal analysis based on C.G. Jung’s and C.S. Pearson’s work and a terror management approach based on the melancholic existentialist work of Ernest Becker. The methodology of psychobiography is used to conduct the psycho-historical analysis of the interplay of archetypes and death annihilation anxiety throughout Frankl’s lifespan. The article evaluates how archetypes and death anxiety interacts and how they built meaning in different stages of Frankl’s lifespan. The theories are discussed and illustrated in the light of Viktor E. Frankl’s life.

202. Abs: Abs | Goog: Goog | GoogSchol: GS | DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4612-0423-7_1 | Journal Impact Factor | Journal Metrics | Article Metrics
Title: The meaning of life
Author(s): Baier, K
Cites per Year: 3 Cites: 185 Year: 1957 Journal: ‘ J-Rnks 1-3: 0 | |
Abstract Text: Tolstoy, in his autobiographical work, “A Confession,” reports how, when he was fifty and at the height of his literary success, he came to be obsessed by the fear that life was …

203. Abs: Abs | Goog: Goog | GoogSchol: GS | DOI: 10.1515/9781400834594 | Journal Impact Factor | Journal Metrics | Article Metrics
Title: Meaning in Life and Why It Matters
Author(s): Wolf, Susan
Cites per Year: 3 Cites: 40 Year: 2010 Journal: ‘ J-Rnks 1-3: 0 | |
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204. Abs: Abs | Goog: Goog | GoogSchol: GS | DOI: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190063504.013.3 | Journal Impact Factor | Journal Metrics | Article Metrics
Title: Meaning and Anti-Meaning in Life
Author(s): Nyholm, Sven and Campbell, Stephen M.
Cites per Year: 3 Cites: 8 Year: 2022 Journal: ‘ J-Rnks 1-3: 0 | |
Abstract Text: Abstract: While it is widely thought that activities and lives can be meaningful or meaningless, this chapter explores the possibility that they could also be ‘anti-meaningful’. Anti-meaning is the opposite of meaning. This chapter has two main objectives: first, it discusses what anti-meaning is (or could be taken to be); second, it discusses whether there are good reasons to add this unfamiliar notion to our set of concepts for thinking about meaning in life. The authors review the limited literature on this topic, distinguish two formal interpretations of the idea of anti-meaning, and propose different substantive theories of anti-meaning that correspond to leading theories of meaning. They then defend the notion of anti-meaning against scepticism about the usefulness of this concept.

205. Abs: Abs | Goog: Goog | GoogSchol: GS | DOI: 10.4324/9780203480861 | Journal Impact Factor | Journal Metrics | Article Metrics
Title: The Death of God and the Meaning of Life
Author(s): Young, Julian
Cites per Year: 3 Cites: 56 Year: 2004 Journal: ‘ J-Rnks 1-3: 0 | |
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206. Abs: Abs | Goog: Goog | GoogSchol: GS | DOI: 10.4103/IJPC.IJPC_171_18 | Journal Impact Factor | Journal Metrics | Article Metrics
Title: The effect of positive psychotherapy on the meaning of life in patients with cancer: A randomized clinical trial
Author(s): Saeedi, B.
Cites per Year: 3 Cites: 16 Year: 2019 Journal: Indian Journal of Palliative Care J-Rnks 1-3: 13661 | 0.351 | 34
Abstract Text: Background and Aim: Cancer, as a social phenomenon, disrupts the daily functions and social activities of a person and changes his ability to perform roles and responsibilities and reach the meaning of life. The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of positive psychotherapy on understanding the meaning of life in patients with cancer. Materials and Methods: This was a randomized clinical trial study. Sixty-one patients with cancer were selected by convenience sampling method and were assigned randomly into two positive psychotherapeutic ( n = 30) and control ( n = 31) groups. Positive psychotherapy included eight 90-min sessions held weekly in group form. The life attitude profile-Gary Reker was completed before and after the intervention. Results: The results showed that there was no significant difference between the mean scores of meaning of life and all its dimensions (purposes, existential vacuum, death acceptance, goal seeking, coherence and responsibility choice) before intervention, but there was a significant difference between the two groups after intervention ( P < 0.05). Also in the control group, the mean score was reduced after the intervention. Conclusion: The positive psychotherapy is effective in increasing the level of meaningful life, enjoyable and committed life of people with cancer. Therefore, based on the results of this study, health-care managers can plan to train and increase the empowerment of nurses in providing these interventions to patients in need.

207. Abs: Abs | Goog: Goog | GoogSchol: GS | DOI: 10.3389/fpubh.2022.905699 | Journal Impact Factor | Journal Metrics | Article Metrics
Title: College students cyberloafing and the sense of meaning of life: The mediating role of state anxiety and the moderating role of psychological flexibility
Author(s): Li, Q.
Cites per Year: 3 Cites: 8 Year: 2022 Journal: Frontiers in Public Health J-Rnks 1-3: 3459 | 1.125 | 80
Abstract Text: BackgroundWith the gradual penetration of network media into various fields of peoples life, the relationship between network behavior and the sense of meaning of life is bound to be closer and closer. The purpose of this study is to explore the mediating role of state anxiety between cyber loafing and the sense of meaning of life, and the moderating role of psychological flexibility in this mediating relationship.MethodologyWith 964 undergraduates recruited as subjects three-wave-time-lagged quantitative research design was conducted in China. All participants were required to complete a self-reported electronic questionnaire. Then, the mediating mechanism and moderating effect were explored with utilization of SPSS25.0.ResultsThe results showed that cyberloafing had significant negative correlation with the sense of meaning of life. Our analysis testing the mediating effect showed that state anxiety partially mediated the relationship between cyberloafing and the sense of meaning of life (indirect effect = −0.05, p &lt; 0.01,), while the mediating effect was 31.25% of the total effect. Our analysis testing the moderating effect showed that psychological flexibility significantly moderated the relationship between cyberloafing and state anxiety (interaction effect = −0.26, p &lt; 0.01). And our analysis testing the moderated mediating effect showed that psychological flexibility played a moderating role in the mediating effect of state anxiety.ConclusionBased on the findings of this study, college students cyberloafing negatively affects their sense of meaning of life. Therefore, appropriate measures should be taken to supervise and restrict college students Internet use and provide them with corresponding guidance; certain psychological adjustment measures should also be taken when necessary to help college students with low psychological flexibility in reducing their state anxiety and improving their sense of meaning of life.

208. Abs: Abs | Goog: Goog | GoogSchol: GS | DOI: 10.1080/02580136.2020.1771824 | Journal Impact Factor | Journal Metrics | Article Metrics
Title: An African approach to the meaning of life
Author(s): Mlungwana, Y
Cites per Year: 3 Cites: 13 Year: 2020 Journal: ‘ J-Rnks 1-3: 0 | |
Abstract Text: … and explain the meaning of life and to pick out the best one. I look at the meaning of life in terms … I look at three different African approaches to such meaning of life, namely life, love and …

209. Abs: Abs | Goog: Goog | GoogSchol: GS | DOI: 10.1017/9781108584425 | Journal Impact Factor | Journal Metrics | Article Metrics
Title: Monotheism and the Meaning of Life
Author(s): Mawson, T. J.
Cites per Year: 3 Cites: 15 Year: 2019 Journal: ‘ J-Rnks 1-3: 0 | |
Abstract Text: Monotheism and the Meaning of Life explores the role of God, and the relationship to the question What is the meaning of life? for adherents of the main monotheistic religions – Judaism, Christianity and Islam. Exploring the various senses of meaning and life, Mawson argues that there are various questions implicit in the notion of the meaning of life and that the God of monotheistic religion is central to the correct answers to all of them.

210. Abs: Abs | Goog: Goog | GoogSchol: GS | DOI: 10.18502/ijps.v16i3.6251 | Journal Impact Factor | Journal Metrics | Article Metrics
Title: The effectiveness of group hope therapy training on the quality of life and meaning of life in patients with multiple sclerosis and their family caregivers
Author(s): Azimian, M.
Cites per Year: 3 Cites: 10 Year: 2021 Journal: Iranian Journal of Psychiatry J-Rnks 1-3: 8837 | 0.584 | 26
Abstract Text: Objective: Multiple sclerosis is a chronic, progressive neurological disease that, due to its special nature, has various physical and mental influences on the patients and their familys lives, decreasing the quality of life and threatening the meaning of life. The purpose of the present study was to evaluate the effectiveness of the group hope therapy training on the quality and the meaning of life in patients with multiple sclerosis and their family caregivers. Method: This quasi-experimental study was performed using pretest-posttest and control group. Thirty patients with multiple sclerosis along with 30 family caregivers who got low to medium scores on the Meaning in Life questionnaire by Steger (MLQ), Multiple Sclerosis Impact Scale (MSIS-29), and the Iranian Quality of Life questionnaire (IRQOL) for the caregivers were selected purposively. Then, the patients were randomly divided into two groups of 15 individuals in experimental and 15 individuals in control groups. The caregivers were grouped in the same manner. The protocol of group hope therapy training was carried out through eight two-hour sessions in two weeks separately on two experimental groups (the patients and the caregivers), and finally the posttest was given to four experimental and control groups. Results: The results of the data showed that the meaning of life in both the patient and the caregiver experimental groups increased significantly (P < 0.001), but there was no significant change in the patient and the caregiver control groups. Conclusion: Group hope therapy training is an effective intervention for improving the meaning of life and the quality of life in patients with multiple sclerosis. Also, any psychological intervention that aims to improve the quality of life in patients in an advanced stage of the disease requires attention to both the physical and the mental issues at the same time. Although group hope therapy training has improved the meaning of life in such patients, it did not have a significant impact on the quality of life. Therefore, paying attention to the stages of multiple sclerosis and the physical condition of the patients during the therapeutic intervention and adopting necessary complementary interventions seems to be essential.

211. Abs: Abs | Goog: Goog | GoogSchol: GS | DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-12-813995-0.00012-1 | Journal Impact Factor | Journal Metrics | Article Metrics
Title: Motives and goals, or: The joys and meanings of life
Author(s): Schultheiss, O.C.
Cites per Year: 3 Cites: 10 Year: 2021 Journal: ‘ J-Rnks 1-3: 0 | |
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212. Abs: Abs | Goog: Goog | GoogSchol: GS | DOI: 10.1007/BF02599016 | Journal Impact Factor | Journal Metrics | Article Metrics
Title: The meaning of life expectancy – What is a clinically significant gain?
Author(s): Naimark, D.
Cites per Year: 2 Cites: 77 Year: 1994 Journal: Journal of General Internal Medicine J-Rnks 1-3: 1549 | 1.814 | 203
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213. Abs: Abs | Goog: Goog | GoogSchol: GS | DOI: 10.7326/0003-4819-129-11_part_1-199812010-00012 | Journal Impact Factor | Journal Metrics | Article Metrics
Title: From fate to tragedy: The changing meanings of life, death, and AIDS
Author(s): Selwyn, P.A.
Cites per Year: 2 Cites: 67 Year: 1998 Journal: Annals of Internal Medicine J-Rnks 1-3: 405 | 3.845 | 419
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214. Abs: Abs | Goog: Goog | GoogSchol: GS | DOI: 10.1111/ejss.12514 | Journal Impact Factor | Journal Metrics | Article Metrics
Title: The search for the meaning of life in soil: an opinion
Author(s): Young, I.M.
Cites per Year: 2 Cites: 17 Year: 2018 Journal: European Journal of Soil Science J-Rnks 1-3: 3990 | 1.035 | 129
Abstract Text: Summary The introduction of impressive technologies in the search for lifes diversity and activity in soil has led to remarkable new techniques and knowledge concerning the soil microbial community. These have led to finding some important links to function. However, we attest that the general lack of causality found between the many metrics of microbial diversity and populations of soil microbes and function is due, at least in part, to the lack of understanding of the links between microbial populations and dynamics to their physical habitat and attendant moisture conditions. In this opinion paper we explore the importance of this interplay between organism and habitat. Further, as an example of this interplay, we introduce the potential importance of nematode movement and gene transfer in bacterial populations. Highlights The importance of the physical habitat is highlighted in soil microbiology studies. The interplay between the soil–root–habitat is emphasized. Seeking a functional understanding of biodiversity rather than a ‘biology of numbers and differences’ approach is proposed. The movement of nematodes with respect to horizontal gene transfer is discussed.

215. Abs: Abs | Goog: Goog | GoogSchol: GS | DOI: 10.1177/0022167813477733 | Journal Impact Factor | Journal Metrics | Article Metrics
Title: Whats It All About? A Qualitative Study of Undergraduate Students Beliefs About Meaning of Life
Author(s): Hill, C.E.
Cites per Year: 2 Cites: 29 Year: 2013 Journal: Journal of Humanistic Psychology J-Rnks 1-3: 9131 | 0.567 | 43
Abstract Text: Ten undergraduate students from psychology classes were interviewed regarding their beliefs about the meaning of life (definition, goals, limitations to goals, sources of meaning, and development of meaning). Interviews were analyzed using consensual qualitative research. These interviewees all indicated that meaning differs across people and time. Typical sources of meaning were relationships, altruism, career, personal growth, pursuit of happiness, and religion. Participants indicated that parents and life-changing experiences triggered changes in their thinking about meaning of life. Specific changes involved shifting from superficial to more meaningful pursuits and thinking more for themselves. Implications for further research and developing programs for helping undergraduate students examine issues related to meaning of life are offered.

216. Abs: Abs | Goog: Goog | GoogSchol: GS | DOI: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190063504.013.4 | Journal Impact Factor | Journal Metrics | Article Metrics
Title: Achievement and Meaning in Life
Author(s): Bradford, Gwen
Cites per Year: 2 Cites: 7 Year: 2022 Journal: ‘ J-Rnks 1-3: 0 | |
Abstract Text: Abstract: Achievements play a key role in many accounts of meaning in life. What characterizes projects that are the best sources of objective worth and meaning? A natural thought is that the achievements that are the most objectively worthwhile and therefore the most significant for meaning are those that accomplish some great good, but John Stuart Mill’s crisis, recounted in his autobiography, casts doubt on this thought: imagining the completion of his life’s goals robs them of their meaningfulness to him. It has been suggested that the most meaningful projects have goals we cannot imagine completing. This chapter gives an account of the structure of the projects that can be the richest source of meaning, and explains why that is so: projects with self-propagating goals involve the pursuit of continued challenge, which activates the value-theoretic principle of recursion, yielding a rich and potentially unending source of value and meaning.

217. Abs: Abs | Goog: Goog | GoogSchol: GS | DOI: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190063504.013.36 | Journal Impact Factor | Journal Metrics | Article Metrics
Title: Virtual Reality and the Meaning of Life
Author(s): Danaher, John
Cites per Year: 2 Cites: 7 Year: 2022 Journal: ‘ J-Rnks 1-3: 0 | |
Abstract Text: Abstract: It is commonly assumed that a virtual life would be less meaningful (perhaps even meaningless). As virtual reality technologies develop and become more integrated into everyday lives, this poses a challenge for those who care about meaning in life. In this chapter, it is argued that the common assumption about meaninglessness and virtuality is mistaken. After clarifying the distinction between two different visions of virtual reality, four arguments are presented for thinking that meaning is possible in virtual reality. Following this, four objections are discussed and rebutted. The chapter concludes that we can be cautiously optimistic about the possibility of meaning in virtual worlds.

218. Abs: Abs | Goog: Goog | GoogSchol: GS | DOI: 10.1111/meta.12176 | Journal Impact Factor | Journal Metrics | Article Metrics
Title: Is philosophy all about the meaning of life?
Author(s): Tartaglia, J
Cites per Year: 2 Cites: 21 Year: 2016 Journal: ‘ J-Rnks 1-3: 0 | |
Abstract Text: … thesis, since it takes the meaning of life to be just one minor and … philosophical interest that the meaning of life has enjoyed in … Then in section 3 I argue that the meaning of life is the best …

219. Abs: Abs | Goog: Goog | GoogSchol: GS | DOI: 10.1515/humaff-2019-0035 | Journal Impact Factor | Journal Metrics | Article Metrics
Title: Recent work on the meaning of lifes meaning: Should we change the philosophical discourse?
Author(s): Metz, T.
Cites per Year: 2 Cites: 14 Year: 2019 Journal: Human Affairs J-Rnks 1-3: 21313 | 0.160 | 17
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220. Abs: Abs | Goog: Goog | GoogSchol: GS | DOI: 10.4324/9781315112060 | Journal Impact Factor | Journal Metrics | Article Metrics
Title: Senses of mystery: Engaging with nature and the meaning of life
Author(s): Cooper, DE
Cites per Year: 2 Cites: 18 Year: 2017 Journal: ‘ J-Rnks 1-3: 0 | |
Abstract Text: … of topics, from Daoism to dogs, from gardening to walking, from Zen to Debussy, Cooper succeeds in conveying some deep and difficult philosophical ideas about the meaning of life in …

221. Abs: Abs | Goog: Goog | GoogSchol: GS | DOI: 10.1111/nhs.12792 | Journal Impact Factor | Journal Metrics | Article Metrics
Title: Reframing the meaning of life and professional values: A theoretical framework of facilitating professional care for terminally ill patients
Author(s): Pan, S.
Cites per Year: 2 Cites: 9 Year: 2021 Journal: Nursing and Health Sciences J-Rnks 1-3: 7509 | 0.670 | 53
Abstract Text: Professional values reflect nurses understanding of how to deliver professional care, which might influence nurses attitudes and caring behaviors during end-of-life care. However, limited research has been conducted to explore nurses experiences of professional development during end-of-life care, and theoretical explanations are scarce about how nurses enact their professional values during the caring process. This study explored the social process of professional values involved in end-of-life care in the Chinese cultural context by adopting a constructivist grounded theory approach. Twenty semi-structured in-depth interviews with 15 nurses from three hospitals in southeastern China were conducted. A theoretical framework emerged when focusing on the social process of reframing the meaning of life and professional values to facilitate professional care for terminally ill patients. Three main categories were sequentially identified as recognizing the dilemmas when caring for terminally ill patients, applying strategies to deal with values conflict, and reconstructing values. This theoretical framework may be applied as a practical framework for equipping nurses with effective strategies to cultivate professional values, including the provision of adequate end-of-life knowledge, and a supportive workplace environment.

222. Abs: Abs | Goog: Goog | GoogSchol: GS | DOI: 10.1177/0022167802238816 | Journal Impact Factor | Journal Metrics | Article Metrics
Title: What eminent people have said about the meaning of life
Author(s): Kinnier, RT .et al
Cites per Year: 2 Cites: 49 Year: 2003 Journal: ‘ J-Rnks 1-3: 0 | |
Abstract Text: … His research interests include topics related to values and the meaning of life. He recently wrote a book titled The Point of It All. In it the meaning of life is finally revealed. …

223. Abs: Abs | Goog: Goog | GoogSchol: GS | DOI: 10.1080/00048402.2010.527354 | Journal Impact Factor | Journal Metrics | Article Metrics
Title: The Meaning of Life Sub Specie Aeternitatis
Author(s): Landau, I
Cites per Year: 2 Cites: 30 Year: 2011 Journal: ‘ J-Rnks 1-3: 0 | |
Abstract Text: … When reflecting on judgments on the meaning of life, then, we should consider predominantly the standards of meaningfulness that we use. Discussing perspectives is frequently less …

224. Abs: Abs | Goog: Goog | GoogSchol: GS | DOI: 10.32598/sija.13.2.182 | Journal Impact Factor | Journal Metrics | Article Metrics
Title: Investigating the meaning of life and psychological well-being, in youth, adults, and elderly (a comparative study of three age groups)
Author(s): Orang, S.
Cites per Year: 2 Cites: 15 Year: 2018 Journal: Iranian Journal of Ageing J-Rnks 1-3: 14666 | 0.315 | 9
Abstract Text: Objectives The present study aimed to examine the meaning in life and well-being of young, middleaged, and older adults. Methods & Materials In this research, a total of 215 participants including 84 young (aged 17-25 years), 59 middle-aged (aged 26-46 years), and 72 older adults (aged 65-80 years) were selected from Tehran city via purposive sampling. The instruments used in this study consisted of the meaning of life questionnaire and Ryffs Scales of Psychological Well-being. Results The results of Mancova analyses showed significant differences between the three age groups. The older people had the most ability in the meaning in life, self-acceptance, positive relation with others, personal growth and purpose in life. Conclusion Research findings indicate that age affects the meaning in life and well-being. So, elderly can be known as a self-awareness, development and relaxation.

225. Abs: Abs | Goog: Goog | GoogSchol: GS | DOI: 10.1080/09644016.2017.1321724 | Journal Impact Factor | Journal Metrics | Article Metrics
Title: The meanings of life for non-state actors in climate politics
Author(s): Dryzek, J.S.
Cites per Year: 2 Cites: 17 Year: 2017 Journal: Environmental Politics J-Rnks 1-3: 1503 | 1.851 | 82
Abstract Text: Not Available – Click on ABS link above.

226. Abs: Abs | Goog: Goog | GoogSchol: GS | DOI: 10.1080/05568641.2015.1014541 | Journal Impact Factor | Journal Metrics | Article Metrics
Title: Death and the Meaning of Life
Author(s): Sigrist, MJ
Cites per Year: 2 Cites: 21 Year: 2015 Journal: ‘ J-Rnks 1-3: 0 | |
Abstract Text: Thoughts of mortality sometimes bring on a crisis in confidence in the meaning in ones life. One expression of this collapse is the midlife crisis. In a recent article, Kieran Setiya argues …

227. Abs: Abs | Goog: Goog | GoogSchol: GS | DOI: 10.1007/978-94-007-6527-6_22 | Journal Impact Factor | Journal Metrics | Article Metrics
Title: Attachment Orientations and Meaning in Life
Author(s): Mikulincer, Mario and Shaver, Phillip R.
Cites per Year: 2 Cites: 25 Year: 2013 Journal: ‘ J-Rnks 1-3: 0 | |
Abstract Text: Not Available – Click on ABS link above.

228. Abs: Abs | Goog: Goog | GoogSchol: GS | DOI: 10.1007/s10902-016-9815-0 | Journal Impact Factor | Journal Metrics | Article Metrics
Title: Need for Meaning, Meaning Confusion, Meaning Anxiety, and Meaning Avoidance: Additional Dimensions of Meaning in Life
Author(s): Zhang, Hong .et al
Cites per Year: 2 Cites: 18 Year: 2016 Journal: Journal of Happiness Studies J-Rnks 1-3: 2073 | 1.528 | 95
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229. Abs: Abs | Goog: Goog | GoogSchol: GS | DOI: 10.1007/s10892-015-9212-7 | Journal Impact Factor | Journal Metrics | Article Metrics
Title: The immortal, the intrinsic and the quasi meaning of life
Author(s): Rowlands, M
Cites per Year: 2 Cites: 20 Year: 2015 Journal: ‘ J-Rnks 1-3: 0 | |
Abstract Text: … Through the examination of the lives (or afterlives) of several immortal beings, this paper defends a version of Moritz Schlick’s claim that the meaning of life is play. More precisely: a …

230. Abs: Abs | Goog: Goog | GoogSchol: GS | DOI: 10.1017/9781108377317 | Journal Impact Factor | Journal Metrics | Article Metrics
Title: Religion and the Meaning of Life: An Existential Approach
Author(s): Williams, C.
Cites per Year: 2 Cites: 10 Year: 2020 Journal: ‘ J-Rnks 1-3: 0 | |
Abstract Text: Not Available – Click on ABS link above.

231. Abs: Abs | Goog: Goog | GoogSchol: GS | DOI: 10.1016/j.apnr.2019.151208 | Journal Impact Factor | Journal Metrics | Article Metrics
Title: Evaluation of meaning of life and self-care agency in nursing care given to chronic obstructive pulmonary patients according to health promotion model
Author(s): Karasu, F.
Cites per Year: 2 Cites: 10 Year: 2020 Journal: Applied Nursing Research J-Rnks 1-3: 8946 | 0.577 | 60
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232. Abs: Abs | Goog: Goog | GoogSchol: GS | DOI: 10.1007/s12144-018-0122-2 | Journal Impact Factor | Journal Metrics | Article Metrics
Title: Locus of control and the meaning of life as a salutogenic model that reduces suicidal tendencies in patients with mental illness
Author(s): Aviad-Wilchek, Y.
Cites per Year: 2 Cites: 8 Year: 2021 Journal: Current Psychology J-Rnks 1-3: 7648 | 0.661 | 54
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233. Abs: Abs | Goog: Goog | GoogSchol: GS | DOI: 10.1016/j.jaging.2004.01.005 | Journal Impact Factor | Journal Metrics | Article Metrics
Title: Religion and life meaning: Differentiating between religious beliefs and religious community in constructing life meaning
Author(s): Fletcher, Susan K.
Cites per Year: 2 Cites: 40 Year: 2004 Journal: Journal of Aging Studies J-Rnks 1-3: 6107 | 0.788 | 75
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234. Abs: Abs | Goog: Goog | GoogSchol: GS | DOI: 10.1016/j.psfr.2013.06.004 | Journal Impact Factor | Journal Metrics | Article Metrics
Title: Meaning of life as a paradigm for career counseling
Author(s): Bernaud, J.L.
Cites per Year: 2 Cites: 17 Year: 2016 Journal: Psychologie Francaise J-Rnks 1-3: 22264 | 0.145 | 17
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235. Abs: Abs | Goog: Goog | GoogSchol: GS | DOI: 10.1024//1421-0185.59.1.34 | Journal Impact Factor | Journal Metrics | Article Metrics
Title: On the psychology of meaning of life
Author(s): Auhagen, A.E.
Cites per Year: 2 Cites: 47 Year: 2000 Journal: ‘ J-Rnks 1-3: 0 | |
Abstract Text: This paper emphasizes the relationship between psychology and the concept of meaning of life. Among others, the following questions are treated: Which main fields exist in psychology concerning the concept of meaning of life? How can meaning of life be defined? How can meaning of life be empirically measured? Which results do studies about meaning of life provide? Which perspectives does the concept of meaning of life provide for psychology? Among other things it is concluded that meaning of life is a multidimensional construct which should be understood individually; that this construct can be assessed empirically; that meaning of life and well-being are correlated positively; that the construct meaning of life will provide many perspectives for psychology.

236. Abs: Abs | Goog: Goog | GoogSchol: GS | DOI: 10.1007/978-94-007-6527-6_6 | Journal Impact Factor | Journal Metrics | Article Metrics
Title: Subjective Well-Being and Meaning in Life in a Hostile World: Proposing a Configurative Perspective
Author(s): Shmotkin, Dov and Shrira, Amit
Cites per Year: 2 Cites: 21 Year: 2013 Journal: ‘ J-Rnks 1-3: 0 | |
Abstract Text: Not Available – Click on ABS link above.

237. Abs: Abs | Goog: Goog | GoogSchol: GS | DOI: 10.4324/9781315385945 | Journal Impact Factor | Journal Metrics | Article Metrics
Title: The Meaning of Life and the Great Philosophers
Author(s): Leach, Stephen and Tartaglia, James
Cites per Year: 2 Cites: 12 Year: 2018 Journal: ‘ J-Rnks 1-3: 0 | |
Abstract Text: Not Available – Click on ABS link above.

238. Abs: Abs | Goog: Goog | GoogSchol: GS | DOI: 10.1111/ajsp.12151 | Journal Impact Factor | Journal Metrics | Article Metrics
Title: Meaning in life and its relationships with intrinsic religiosity, deliberate rumination, and emotional regulation
Author(s): Park, Chan Jeong and Yoo, Sung-Kyung
Cites per Year: 2 Cites: 15 Year: 2016 Journal: Asian Journal of Social Psychology J-Rnks 1-3: 6735 | 0.730 | 58
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239. Abs: Abs | Goog: Goog | GoogSchol: GS | DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780197633182.001.0001 | Journal Impact Factor | Journal Metrics | Article Metrics
Title: Kant, Liberalism, and the Meaning of Life
Author(s): Church, Jeffrey
Cites per Year: 2 Cites: 5 Year: 2022 Journal: ‘ J-Rnks 1-3: 0 | |
Abstract Text: Abstract: This book is the first extended treatment of Kant’s understanding of the meaning of life. It focuses on his largely neglected early lectures on anthropology from the 1760s and 1770s in the crucial years leading up to his Critique of Pure Reason. These lectures feature Kant at his least metaphysical, abstract, and legalistic. Instead, in these lectures, Kant adopts a naturalistic perspective, examining the purpose of the human being as an embodied, needy creature. This book argues that for the early Kant, human nature has two conflicting ends—that of wholeness and perfection—a conflict that justifies humanity in giving itself its own moral purpose to bring harmony to our nature and meaning to our lives. It then argues that Kant’s early view of the meaning of life has important implications for understanding his political theory. Kantian liberalism has in recent years been virtually synonymous with John Rawls’ liberalism, which has been criticized for abstracting from concerns about meaning in life and from debate and contestation in democratic politics. This book argues that Kant’s liberalism involves a more dynamic and contestatory politics than Rawls’ liberalism, because of the tensions in our nature as revealed by Kant’s anthropology. In addition, Kant’s anthropology points to a perfectionist dimension in Kantian liberalism, that politics on Kant’s view is not only a framework for pursuing our own view of the good, but also a partnership that fosters a meaningful life.

240. Abs: Abs | Goog: Goog | GoogSchol: GS | DOI: 10.1111/phc3.12087 | Journal Impact Factor | Journal Metrics | Article Metrics
Title: Recent work on the meaning of life and philosophy of religion
Author(s): Mawson, TJ
Cites per Year: 2 Cites: 20 Year: 2013 Journal: ‘ J-Rnks 1-3: 0 | |
Abstract Text: … Meaning of Life’: within the analytic tradition, an idea has gained widespread assent; whatever the vague and enigmatic nature of the phrase ‘the meaning of life… ‘the meaning of life’ and …

241. Abs: Abs | Goog: Goog | GoogSchol: GS | DOI: 10.12775/SETF.2019.013 | Journal Impact Factor | Journal Metrics | Article Metrics
Title: Ephemeroi – Human vulnerability, transhumanism, and the meaning of life
Author(s): Hauskeller, M.
Cites per Year: 2 Cites: 10 Year: 2019 Journal: Scientia et Fides J-Rnks 1-3: 8059 | 0.633 | 7
Abstract Text: In this article I try to understand transhumanism from the phenomenological perspective of lived experience. Asking what it is like to be a transhumanist, I first interpret the transhumanist agenda of using technology to overcome the human condition as a reaction to the experience of our human weakness, vulnerability, and mortality, and then sketch an alternative positive account of human vulnerability, which connects precisely those experiences to what makes human life valuable and meaningful.

242. Abs: Abs | Goog: Goog | GoogSchol: GS | DOI: 10.3390/NURSREP10020022 | Journal Impact Factor | Journal Metrics | Article Metrics
Title: Does christian spirituality enhance psychological interventions on forgiveness, gratitude, and the meaning of life? A quasi-experimental intervention with the elderly and youth
Author(s): Jiménez, M.S.R.
Cites per Year: 2 Cites: 8 Year: 2020 Journal: ‘ J-Rnks 1-3: 0 | |
Abstract Text: Scientific research has provided theoretical evidence on the implementation of religiousspiritual interventions (RSI) as a complementary health therapy, where spiritual improvements are also a factor to consider. Despite the above, there are few studies that have evaluated the clinical applicability of these findings. This study was an intervention with older and younger adults divided into two treatment groups and one control group. What is expected is that the two treatment groups will score better than the control group; however, the group with a Christian spiritual focus is expected to perform better than the group without a spiritual focus. Measures of gratitude, meaning of life, forgiveness, spirituality, religiosity, and expected prejudice were recorded. The hypothesis is fulfilled that Christian spirituality enhances psychological interventions on factors associated with personal well-being, mainly in older adults: spirituality (M = 26.00, SE = 2.127M = 29.38, SE = 1.953, t (12) = −2.436, p < 0.05, r = 0.58), goals (M = 22.92, SE = 1.022M = 24.54, SE = 0.739, t (12) = −2.298, p < 0.05, r = 0.55), and benevolence (M = 17.31, SE = 1.554M = 21.08, SE = 1.603, t (12) = −3.310, p < 0.05, r = 0.69). The most powerful results of the study are those associated with religiosityspirituality.

243. Abs: Abs | Goog: Goog | GoogSchol: GS | DOI: 10.1590/0034-7167-2019-0323 | Journal Impact Factor | Journal Metrics | Article Metrics
Title: Faith and spirituality in the meaning of life of the elderly with Chronic Kidney Disease
Author(s): Moura, H.C.G.B.
Cites per Year: 2 Cites: 8 Year: 2020 Journal: Revista brasileira de enfermagem J-Rnks 1-3: 16138 | 0.271 | 27
Abstract Text: ABSTRACT Objective: to understand faith and spirituality in the meaning of life of the elderly with Chronic Kidney Disease. Methods: a qualitative research based on Viktor Emil Frankl’s Logotherapy and Existential Analysis. Twenty elderly people were interviewed between August 2018 and January 2019, between 60 and 79 years old, who underwent dialysis in a private unit, a reference in nephrology in the city of Salvador, Bahia, Brazil. Results: two categories of analysis emerged: Meaning of faith in the lived of the elderly with Chronic Kidney Disease; Faith as a forerunner of the meaning of life. Final considerations: faith and spirituality were understood as a fundamental foundation in the search for the meaning of the study participants’ lives, besides unveiling itself as an important strategy of resilience to the experienced of the elderly person with Chronic Kidney Disease.

244. Abs: Abs | Goog: Goog | GoogSchol: GS | DOI: 10.4040/jkan.2013.43.1.91 | Journal Impact Factor | Journal Metrics | Article Metrics
Title: Effects of logotherapy on life respect, meaning of life, and depression of older school-age children
Author(s): Kang, K.A.
Cites per Year: 2 Cites: 19 Year: 2013 Journal: Journal of Korean Academy of Nursing J-Rnks 1-3: 12478 | 0.400 | 27
Abstract Text: The results of the study indicate that life-esteemed education applied logotherapy is effective in improving meaning of life and life respect and in decreasing depression in elementary school students. It can also be used to prevent existential distress and to intervene as a motif for having hope in life.

245. Abs: Abs | Goog: Goog | GoogSchol: GS | DOI: 10.1080/05568641.2018.1424027 | Journal Impact Factor | Journal Metrics | Article Metrics
Title: Life Meaning and Sign Meaning
Author(s): Repp, Charles
Cites per Year: 2 Cites: 11 Year: 2018 Journal: Philosophical Papers J-Rnks 1-3: 14753 | 0.313 | 21
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246. Abs: Abs | Goog: Goog | GoogSchol: GS | DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-41397-6_9 | Journal Impact Factor | Journal Metrics | Article Metrics
Title: Working with Meaning in Life in Chronic or Life-Threatening Disease: A Review of Its Relevance and the Effectiveness of Meaning-Centred Therapies
Author(s): Vos, Joel
Cites per Year: 2 Cites: 14 Year: 2016 Journal: ‘ J-Rnks 1-3: 0 | |
Abstract Text: Not Available – Click on ABS link above.

247. Abs: Abs | Goog: Goog | GoogSchol: GS | DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-41397-6_19 | Journal Impact Factor | Journal Metrics | Article Metrics
Title: Character Strengths and Mindfulness as Core Pathways to Meaning in Life
Author(s): Littman-Ovadia, Hadassah and Niemiec, Ryan M.
Cites per Year: 2 Cites: 14 Year: 2016 Journal: ‘ J-Rnks 1-3: 0 | |
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248. Abs: Abs | Goog: Goog | GoogSchol: GS | DOI: 10.1007/s11089-016-0704-6 | Journal Impact Factor | Journal Metrics | Article Metrics
Title: The meaning of life
Author(s): Carlin, N
Cites per Year: 2 Cites: 14 Year: 2016 Journal: ‘ J-Rnks 1-3: 0 | |
Abstract Text: This essay answers the question of the meaning of life. It does so from the perspective of pastoral theology by turning to a children’s story: William Joyce’s award-winning The Fantastic …

249. Abs: Abs | Goog: Goog | GoogSchol: GS | DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4939-0308-5_18 | Journal Impact Factor | Journal Metrics | Article Metrics
Title: Do Meaning in Life and Purpose in Life Protect Against Suicide Ideation Among Community-Residing Older Adults?
Author(s): Heisel, Marnin J. and Flett, Gordon L.
Cites per Year: 2 Cites: 17 Year: 2014 Journal: ‘ J-Rnks 1-3: 0 | |
Abstract Text: Not Available – Click on ABS link above.

250. Abs: Abs | Goog: Goog | GoogSchol: GS | DOI: 10.1075/eoc.4.2.07zla | Journal Impact Factor | Journal Metrics | Article Metrics
Title: Meaning = Life (+ Culture)
Author(s): Zlatev, Jordan
Cites per Year: 2 Cites: 37 Year: 2001 Journal: ‘ J-Rnks 1-3: 0 | |
Abstract Text: The article presents the outlines of an integrative theory of meaning based on the concept of

251. Abs: Abs | Goog: Goog | GoogSchol: GS | DOI: 10.1017/CBO9780511778827 | Journal Impact Factor | Journal Metrics | Article Metrics
Title: Darwin, god and the meaning of life: How evolutionary theory undermines everything you thought you knew
Author(s): Stewart-Williams, S.
Cites per Year: 2 Cites: 23 Year: 2010 Journal: ‘ J-Rnks 1-3: 0 | |
Abstract Text: If you accept evolutionary theory, can you also believe in God? Are human beings superior to other animals, or is this just a human prejudice? Does Darwin have implications for heated issues like euthanasia and animal rights? Does evolution tell us the purpose of life, or does it imply that life has no ultimate purpose? Does evolution tell us what is morally right and wrong, or does it imply that ultimately nothing is right or wrong? In this fascinating and intriguing book, Steve Stewart-Williams addresses these and other fundamental philosophical questions raised by evolutionary theory and the exciting new field of evolutionary psychology. Drawing on biology, psychology and philosophy, he argues that Darwinian science supports a view of a godless universe devoid of ultimate purpose or moral structure, but that we can still live a good life and a happy life within the confines of this view.

252. Abs: Abs | Goog: Goog | GoogSchol: GS | DOI: 10.1007/978-94-009-3483-2_1 | Journal Impact Factor | Journal Metrics | Article Metrics
Title: Linguistic Philosophy and the Meaning of Life
Author(s): Nielsen, K
Cites per Year: 1 Cites: 89 Year: 1964 Journal: ‘ J-Rnks 1-3: 0 | |
Abstract Text: … In this way, as we shall see, it is closer to the question What is the meaning of Life? than … What is the meaning of Life? is in some very significant respects like this last question …

253. Abs: Abs | Goog: Goog | GoogSchol: GS | DOI: 10.1007/s10902-012-9382-y | Journal Impact Factor | Journal Metrics | Article Metrics
Title: The Meaning of Lives and the Meaning of Things
Author(s): Muijnck, W. de
Cites per Year: 1 Cites: 17 Year: 2013 Journal: Journal of Happiness Studies J-Rnks 1-3: 2073 | 1.528 | 95
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254. Abs: Abs | Goog: Goog | GoogSchol: GS | DOI: 10.1016/b978-0-12-818849-1.00009-6 | Journal Impact Factor | Journal Metrics | Article Metrics
Title: At the heart of meaning-making: an acceptance and commitment approach to developing adaptive meaning following acute cardiac events
Author(s): Bergman, Maja and Keitel, Merle A.
Cites per Year: 1 Cites: 7 Year: 2020 Journal: ‘ J-Rnks 1-3: 0 | |
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255. Abs: Abs | Goog: Goog | GoogSchol: GS | DOI: 10.4040/jkan.2010.40.4.52 | Journal Impact Factor | Journal Metrics | Article Metrics
Title: Relationship of social support and meaning of life to suicidal thoughts in cancer patients
Author(s): Kim, J.Y.
Cites per Year: 1 Cites: 21 Year: 2010 Journal: ‘ J-Rnks 1-3: 0 | |
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256. Abs: Abs | Goog: Goog | GoogSchol: GS | DOI: 10.1016/j.apnu.2020.02.009 | Journal Impact Factor | Journal Metrics | Article Metrics
Title: Exploring academics beliefs about the meaning of life to inform mental health clinical practice
Author(s): Glaw, X.
Cites per Year: 1 Cites: 7 Year: 2020 Journal: Archives of Psychiatric Nursing J-Rnks 1-3: 7752 | 0.654 | 59
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257. Abs: Abs | Goog: Goog | GoogSchol: GS | DOI: 10.1080/00948705.2020.1715227 | Journal Impact Factor | Journal Metrics | Article Metrics
Title: Mountaineering, Myth and the Meaning of Life: psychoanalysing alpinism
Author(s): Duits, R.
Cites per Year: 1 Cites: 7 Year: 2020 Journal: Journal of the Philosophy of Sport J-Rnks 1-3: 11199 | 0.456 | 32
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258. Abs: Abs | Goog: Goog | GoogSchol: GS | DOI: 10.1038/4471031b | Journal Impact Factor | Journal Metrics | Article Metrics
Title: Meanings of life
Author(s):
Cites per Year: 1 Cites: 25 Year: 2007 Journal: Nature J-Rnks 1-3: 12 | 20.957 | 1331
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259. Abs: Abs | Goog: Goog | GoogSchol: GS | DOI: 10.1111/1475-4975.00018 | Journal Impact Factor | Journal Metrics | Article Metrics
Title: The meaning of life
Author(s): Kekes, J.
Cites per Year: 1 Cites: 34 Year: 2000 Journal: Midwest Studies in Philosophy J-Rnks 1-3: 11900 | 0.426 | 36
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260. Abs: Abs | Goog: Goog | GoogSchol: GS | DOI: 10.1057/9780230583153-9 | Journal Impact Factor | Journal Metrics | Article Metrics
Title: The meaning of life: Subjectivism, objectivism, and divine support
Author(s): Hooker, B.
Cites per Year: 1 Cites: 23 Year: 2008 Journal: ‘ J-Rnks 1-3: 0 | |
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261. Abs: Abs | Goog: Goog | GoogSchol: GS | DOI: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190063504.013.32 | Journal Impact Factor | Journal Metrics | Article Metrics
Title: Education and Meaning in Life
Author(s): Ruyter, Doret de and Schinkel, Anders
Cites per Year: 1 Cites: 4 Year: 2022 Journal: ‘ J-Rnks 1-3: 0 | |
Abstract Text: Abstract: This chapter explores the relation between education and meaning in life. People experience meaning in life when they (a) can make sense of their life and the(ir) world, (b) have purpose in life, and (c) experience significance and that they matter. The chapter describes how family life and parental upbringing, as well as students’ participation in schools and teachers’ education, can make positive and unique contributions to children’s (future) meaning in life. It concludes that parents and teachers should open the complex world to help children find their way, present a meaning framework that provides a standpoint from which to evaluate what is significant while also giving sufficient freedom to engage with other views on the good life, and develop relationships with children that foster their feelings that they matter while at the same time instilling a desire and sense of responsibility to matter to others.

262. Abs: Abs | Goog: Goog | GoogSchol: GS | DOI: 10.1080/00048407412341101 | Journal Impact Factor | Journal Metrics | Article Metrics
Title: Philosophy and the meaning of life
Author(s): Joske, WD
Cites per Year: 1 Cites: 68 Year: 1974 Journal: ‘ J-Rnks 1-3: 0 | |
Abstract Text: … in spite of the plausibility of contemporary optimism I think that most those people who question the meaning of life would not be happy with diagnosis they have been offered. They …

263. Abs: Abs | Goog: Goog | GoogSchol: GS | DOI: 10.1080/17511321.2018.1550526 | Journal Impact Factor | Journal Metrics | Article Metrics
Title: Bernard Suits’ Response to the Question on the Meaning of Life as a Critique of Modernity
Author(s): Frias, F.J. Lopez
Cites per Year: 1 Cites: 8 Year: 2019 Journal: Sport J-Rnks 1-3: 0 | 8908 | 0.580
Abstract Text: Not Available – Click on ABS link above.

264. Abs: Abs | Goog: Goog | GoogSchol: GS | DOI: 10.1111/1467-9205.00033 | Journal Impact Factor | Journal Metrics | Article Metrics
Title: Wittgenstein, Tolstoy and the meaning of life
Author(s): Thompson, C
Cites per Year: 1 Cites: 37 Year: 1997 Journal: ‘ J-Rnks 1-3: 0 | |
Abstract Text: … the meaning of life and therefore nothing that is knowing the answer to the question of the meaning of life… that there is something that is the meaning of life only one cannot say what it is. …

265. Abs: Abs | Goog: Goog | GoogSchol: GS | DOI: 10.1515/9780773553934 | Journal Impact Factor | Journal Metrics | Article Metrics
Title: Embodiment and the Meaning of Life
Author(s): Noonan, Jeff
Cites per Year: 1 Cites: 9 Year: 2018 Journal: ‘ J-Rnks 1-3: 0 | |
Abstract Text: Not Available – Click on ABS link above.

266. Abs: Abs | Goog: Goog | GoogSchol: GS | DOI: 10.1891/1541-6577.32.3.255 | Journal Impact Factor | Journal Metrics | Article Metrics
Title: The effect of watsons human caring model on meaning of life and symptom management in cancer patients undergoing chemotherapy
Author(s): Aktürk, Ü.
Cites per Year: 1 Cites: 9 Year: 2018 Journal: Research and theory for nursing practice J-Rnks 1-3: 19051 | 0.203 | 45
Abstract Text: Purpose:The purpose of this study was to determine the effect of Watson’s Human Caring Model on the meaning of life and symptom management in cancer patients undergoing chemotherapy.Design:The study was conducted using a real test model featuring a pretest and posttest and a control group.Methods:The sample consisted of 158 adult cancer patients (79 in both the experimental and control groups). The sample size was determined and the participants were allocated to groups using power analysis and a random sampling method. For the pretest, both groups completed an introductory questionnaire, the Life Attitude Profile, and the General Symptom Inventory. Then, the experimenter visited the experimental group patients’ homes three times, at 2-week intervals, to provide nursing care based on Watson’s model. Finally, after 8 weeks, a posttest was conducted by having both groups complete the Life Attitude Profile and General Symptom Inventory once again.Results:In the experimental group, the mean total posttest score for the Life Attitude Profile was determined to be 164.21 ± 36.5, and the mean total General Symptom Inventory score was 55.06 ± 13.19; however, in the control group, the mean total Life Attitude Profile score was 127.31 ± 10.61 and the mean total General Symptom Inventory score was 136.91 ± 16.20. The mean differences between the groups were statistically significant (p < .001).Implications for Practice:Care based on Watson’s model increases the sense of meaning in life and decreases symptom levels for patients undergoing chemotherapy.

267. Abs: Abs | Goog: Goog | GoogSchol: GS | DOI: 10.1515/9783110324242.9 | Journal Impact Factor | Journal Metrics | Article Metrics
Title: Happiness and the Meaning of Life
Author(s): Horn, Christoph
Cites per Year: 1 Cites: 15 Year: 2013 Journal: ‘ J-Rnks 1-3: 0 | |
Abstract Text: Not Available – Click on ABS link above.

268. Abs: Abs | Goog: Goog | GoogSchol: GS | DOI: 10.12804/revistas.urosario.edu.co/apl/a.3728 | Journal Impact Factor | Journal Metrics | Article Metrics
Title: The perception of meaning of life in vital cycle: A time perspective
Author(s): Aquino, T.A.A. De
Cites per Year: 1 Cites: 10 Year: 2017 Journal: Avances en Psicologia Latinoamericana J-Rnks 1-3: 20326 | 0.178 | 16
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269. Abs: Abs | Goog: Goog | GoogSchol: GS | DOI: 10.1007/s00278-020-00439-5 | Journal Impact Factor | Journal Metrics | Article Metrics
Title: Personality, meaning of life and fear of death in affective disorders: Pilot study with outpatient psychotherapy patients
Author(s): Mavrogiorgou, P.
Cites per Year: 1 Cites: 6 Year: 2020 Journal: Psychotherapeut J-Rnks 1-3: 19002 | 0.204 | 23
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270. Abs: Abs | Goog: Goog | GoogSchol: GS | DOI: 10.1515/9783110324242.65 | Journal Impact Factor | Journal Metrics | Article Metrics
Title: Meaning and Narratives
Author(s): Kekes, John
Cites per Year: 1 Cites: 14 Year: 2013 Journal: ‘ J-Rnks 1-3: 0 | |
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271. Abs: Abs | Goog: Goog | GoogSchol: GS | DOI: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198788232.013.12 | Journal Impact Factor | Journal Metrics | Article Metrics
Title: Meaning in Life and in Work
Author(s): Steger, Michael F.
Cites per Year: 1 Cites: 7 Year: 2019 Journal: ‘ J-Rnks 1-3: 0 | |
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Work has powerful potential to enrich our lives by providing them with meaning. The idea of meaning in life (MIL) is crucial to almost every measure of human well-being or flourishing, yet there is much less consensus over the idea of meaningful work (MW). Although the two ideas are often used interchangeably, this chapter reviews different conceptualizations of these ideas to see how they are related and takes a “theoretical turn” to consider some shared themes and character strengths, such as “significance,” “coherence,” “transcendence,” “purpose,” and “empathy.” Based on these themes, it proposes two workplace models intended to make it easier for workers to find meaningful pathways in work, and for leaders to create the conditions for the meaningful organization. When these two models work together they can operate to produce social as well as economic value, and personalize work even when faced with dehumanizing effects of robotics.

272. Abs: Abs | Goog: Goog | GoogSchol: GS | DOI: 10.1017/S0963180110000599 | Journal Impact Factor | Journal Metrics | Article Metrics
Title: Considerable life extension and three views on the meaning of life
Author(s): Häyry, M.
Cites per Year: 1 Cites: 16 Year: 2011 Journal: Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics J-Rnks 1-3: 12711 | 0.390 | 40
Abstract Text: Picture this. You are having your regular medical checkup, when, all of a sudden, the physician turns to you and says: “Oh, did I remember to mention that you can now live forever?” You look at the doctor enquiringly and she goes on: “Well, it’s not actual immortality, you know, but they’ve invented this treatment—I don’t have the full details—that stops aging, getting physically older. It might not be for everyone, but you seem to be a suitable candidate. You could still die of accidents and illness, of course, but they’ve calculated that with care and any luck you should live to be a thousand, as opposed to the hundred or so that you would now have. And in a millennium, techniques will advance further, so there could be more in store for you after that.”

273. Abs: Abs | Goog: Goog | GoogSchol: GS | DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-54549-3_5 | Journal Impact Factor | Journal Metrics | Article Metrics
Title: Robert Nozick on nonhuman animals: Rights, value and the meaning of life
Author(s): Milburn, J.
Cites per Year: 1 Cites: 9 Year: 2017 Journal: ‘ J-Rnks 1-3: 0 | |
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274. Abs: Abs | Goog: Goog | GoogSchol: GS | DOI: 10.2307/2107725 | Journal Impact Factor | Journal Metrics | Article Metrics
Title: The Informed Will and the Meaning of Life
Author(s): John Kekes
Cites per Year: 1 Cites: 40 Year: 1986 Journal: Philosophy and Phenomenological Research J-Rnks 1-3: 2063 | 1.534 | 48
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275. Abs: Abs | Goog: Goog | GoogSchol: GS | DOI: 10.1017/S0034412500002419 | Journal Impact Factor | Journal Metrics | Article Metrics
Title: Questions about the Meaning of Life
Author(s): Hepburn, R.W.
Cites per Year: 1 Cites: 60 Year: 1966 Journal: Religious Studies J-Rnks 1-3: 9189 | 0.564 | 24
Abstract Text: Claims about ‘the meaning of life’ have tended to be made and discussed in conjunction with bold metaphysical and theological affirmations. For life to have meaning, there must (it is assumed) be a comprehensive divine plan to give it meaning, or there must be an intelligible cosmic process with a ‘telos’ that a man needs to know if his life is to be meaningfully orientated. Or, it is thought to be a condition of the meaningfulness of life, that values should be ultimately ‘conserved’ in some way, that no evil should be unredeemable and irrational. And it may be claimed that if death were to end our experience, meaninglessness would triumph.

276. Abs: Abs | Goog: Goog | GoogSchol: GS | DOI: 10.4324/9781351231879-14 | Journal Impact Factor | Journal Metrics | Article Metrics
Title: Meaning in Life in Context
Author(s): Heintzelman, Samantha J.
Cites per Year: 1 Cites: 8 Year: 2017 Journal: ‘ J-Rnks 1-3: 0 | |
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277. Abs: Abs | Goog: Goog | GoogSchol: GS | DOI: 10.1177/1066480718795122 | Journal Impact Factor | Journal Metrics | Article Metrics
Title: Parent–Child Closeness and Parents’ Meaning in Life in Personal Meaning in Life
Author(s): Yu, Elizabeth A. and Chang, Edward C.
Cites per Year: 1 Cites: 7 Year: 2018 Journal: Family Journal J-Rnks 1-3: 13258 | 0.367 | 41
Abstract Text: We examined for ethnic differences in how parent–child closeness and parents’ meaning in life predict personal meaning in life between 187 Asian American and 201 European American college students. Results indicated that parent–child closeness predicted a significant amount of variance in personal meaning in life for both groups. Furthermore, parents’ meaning in life added a significant amount of variance, above and beyond parent–child closeness, in predicting personal meaning in life for Asian Americans, but not for European Americans. Our findings indicate that although parents play some role in contributing to college-aged individuals’ meaning in life, there are still important ethnocultural nuances to consider. Findings from the present study provide a foundation for further research to continue examining the role of parents and familial relationships in meaning in life and other well-being outcomes. Further discussion of the study’s findings and implications are discussed.

278. Abs: Abs | Goog: Goog | GoogSchol: GS | DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780190873240.001.0001 | Journal Impact Factor | Journal Metrics | Article Metrics
Title: John Stuart Mill and the Meaning of Life
Author(s): Millgram, Elijah
Cites per Year: 1 Cites: 6 Year: 2019 Journal: ‘ J-Rnks 1-3: 0 | |
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The popular view that the meaning of a life should be a project is assessed by examining a life that did have that shape. John Stuart Mill’s utilitarian life project is described, and is argued to be a best representative of the class. Turning points and unusual features of Mill’s life are shown to be side effects or preconditions of having a very large project center stage in it. Life projects are motivated as satisfying a coherence requirement imposed on the valuable elements of a life. But Mill’s biography demonstrates that living out one’s life as a project undermines its coherence. The overunified life, it is concluded, is to be avoided, and the meaningfulness of a life is best reconceived so as to give it application in the lives of loosely organized agents.

279. Abs: Abs | Goog: Goog | GoogSchol: GS | DOI: 10.1016/b978-0-12-818849-1.00005-9 | Journal Impact Factor | Journal Metrics | Article Metrics
Title: Meaning-making in bereavement transitions: review and clinical relevance
Author(s): Milman, Evgenia and Neimeyer, Robert A.
Cites per Year: 1 Cites: 5 Year: 2020 Journal: ‘ J-Rnks 1-3: 0 | |
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280. Abs: Abs | Goog: Goog | GoogSchol: GS | DOI: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190063504.013.7 | Journal Impact Factor | Journal Metrics | Article Metrics
Title: Paradoxes and Meaning in Life
Author(s): Smilansky, Saul
Cites per Year: 1 Cites: 3 Year: 2022 Journal: ‘ J-Rnks 1-3: 0 | |
Abstract Text: Abstract: Paradoxes can be said to be the quintessence of philosophy, combining as they typically do the argument form and the radical challenge to the seemingly obvious. Like reflection about paradoxes, reflection about meaning in life goes back a long way in philosophy. Yet oddly, at least in the Western tradition, the two have hardly been combined, and certainly not to the extent that one could have imagined. The author of this chapter explores some widely known apparent paradoxes, together with some lesser known ones, that bear upon meaning in life, and draw out their significance for this topic. He looks at what it means to live with paradoxes, and concludes with some general reflections. It becomes apparent that a sophisticated, more fully aware view of human life, its absurdities, and its meaning cannot avoid the salience of paradoxes.

281. Abs: Abs | Goog: Goog | GoogSchol: GS | DOI: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190063504.013.23 | Journal Impact Factor | Journal Metrics | Article Metrics
Title: Psychological Approaches to Life’s Meaning
Author(s): Baumeister, Roy F.
Cites per Year: 1 Cites: 3 Year: 2022 Journal: ‘ J-Rnks 1-3: 0 | |
Abstract Text: Abstract: Intended to provide an overview of psychological research on life’s meaning for a philosophical readership, this chapter reviews multiple lines of enquiry. People find meaning in diverse places, so the questions (needs for meaning) may be more constant than the answers. Self-rated meaningfulness often emphasizes family, love, work, and religion, some of which seem little more than basic animal drives embellished with meaningfulness. Self-rated meaningfulness rises and falls in response to mundane events, increasing after seeing simple orderly patterns and while performing routines, and decreasing after interpersonal rejection. Searching for meaning is largely uncorrelated with finding or having it. Applying meaning to life may increase its incompleteness. Self-rated happiness correlates with meaningfulness, but important differences exist, including differential relevance of goal satisfaction, time span, interpersonal relations, stressful involvements, and self-expression.

282. Abs: Abs | Goog: Goog | GoogSchol: GS | DOI: 10.1017/nbf.2024.6 | Journal Impact Factor | Journal Metrics | Article Metrics
Title: The Metaphysics of Meaning: Aquinas and the Meaning of Life
Author(s): Gardner, Patrick Xavier
Cites per Year: 1 Cites: 1 Year: 2024 Journal: ‘ J-Rnks 1-3: 0 | |
Abstract Text: Abstract: While ‘the meaning of life’ has grown in prominence as a topic of philosophical inquiry, few Thomists have addressed it. Joshua Hochschild has recently offered a plausible explanation, arguing that ‘the meaning of life’ is a late modern ‘invention’, at home in a conceptual framework both philosophically problematic and incompatible with the principles of St. Thomas’ thought. He, therefore, counsels Catholic intellectuals to avoid the question of life’s meaning. I argue in contrast that St. Thomas offers the kind of metaphysical perspective that originally made ‘the meaning of life’ intelligible. First, I show that closer attention to the context in which the phrase emerges (that of German Romanticism) can clarify why much of the modern discourse on ‘the meaning of life’ succumbs to Hochschild’s critique. I then show that, even in the writings of its earliest modern proponents, we find compelling reasons to hold that ‘the meaning of life’ was always more at home within a Christian conceptual framework. Finally, I argue that St. Thomas’ account of providence and divine art in particular explain the purposefulness and significance of the world, such that Thomists who appeal to these notions are well positioned to address the question of life’s meaning in contemporary philosophical debates.

283. Abs: Abs | Goog: Goog | GoogSchol: GS | DOI: 10.3390/rel4010132 | Journal Impact Factor | Journal Metrics | Article Metrics
Title: The role of the meaning of life and religious experience of gods presence and gods absence amongst students with different levels of conscience sensitivity
Author(s): Głaz, S.
Cites per Year: 1 Cites: 12 Year: 2013 Journal: Religions J-Rnks 1-3: 14463 | 0.322 | 33
Abstract Text: Abstract:The aim of the authors own research was: (a) defining the level of meaning in life and the level of religious experience (Gods presence and Gods absence) in groups of students with high and low levels of conscience sensitivity and (b) showing the connection between meaning in life and the level of religious experience (Gods presence and Gods absence) in groups of students with high and low levels of conscience sensitivity. The study was conducted in 2009-2010 among university students in Kraków. The subject group consisted of students of several non-Catholic public and state universities. All participants were Polish born, culturally homogeneous, and stemmed from families of average affluence. The age of the respondents ranged from 21 to 25. Two-hundred and forty sets of correctly completed questionnaires were used for the results analysis.

284. Abs: Abs | Goog: Goog | GoogSchol: GS | DOI: 10.3109/14659891.2014.896954 | Journal Impact Factor | Journal Metrics | Article Metrics
Title: Religious-spiritual sources of hope and the meaning of life in alcohol co-dependent subjects receiving support in self-help groups
Author(s): Wnuk, M.
Cites per Year: 1 Cites: 10 Year: 2015 Journal: Journal of Substance Use J-Rnks 1-3: 15101 | 0.301 | 33
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285. Abs: Abs | Goog: Goog | GoogSchol: GS | DOI: 10.11621/pir.2016.0109 | Journal Impact Factor | Journal Metrics | Article Metrics
Title: Ethnopsychological aspects of the meaning-of-life and value orientations of Armenian and Russian students
Author(s): Berberyan, A.S.
Cites per Year: 1 Cites: 9 Year: 2016 Journal: Psychology in Russia: State of the Art J-Rnks 1-3: 17242 | 0.241 | 14
Abstract Text: The study of ethnocultural identity is remarkably up to date when considering the interactions of different countries, the ethnic groups studied within the limits of mono-and multicultural space, and the processes of acculturation, assimilation, and others. Ethnocultural identity is based on the desires of the individual and the nation viewed integrally; it is achieved in substituted forms through integration in the cultural and symbolic space of society. The aim of this article is to analyze the meaning-of-life and value orientations of Armenian and Russian students in the Russian Federation and the Republic of Armenia. In order to study ethnocultural identity as part of the self-concept we carried out a study with students at the Russian-Armenian (Slavonic) University (Yerevan, Armenia) and the South Federal University (Rostov-on-Don, Russia): at the initial stage we conducted two focus groups (the number of respondents in each group was 10); at the second stage we conducted a study the number of respondents was 160. When the Armenian and Russian youth described their ethnicity, high values of social self -in particular, national civic identity -correlated with high and medium levels of meaning-of-life orientations. Armenians and Russians in title ethnos and in the associated diaspora had a number of similarities and differences in value orientations. The majority of respondents in the focus groups noted their positive emotions connected with being Armenian or Russian. The ethnic Russians in Armenia pointed out the ease of communication with Russian speakers, regardless of ethnicity, but noted the difficulty of social interaction because of their insufficient knowledge of the Armenian language. The formation and development of ethnic self-consciousness may be carried out at two levels: understanding the values and ideas of ethnicity and assessing the ethnocultural and ethnopsychological features of ones ethnic group. The ethnic identity of Armenians in Russia has been transformed, and they are now characterized by similar values as ethnic Armenians in Armenia. Ethnic Armenians and ethnic Russians are in continuous interaction in Armenia and in Russia. This interaction is a key to positive ethnic attitudes in both groups as evidenced by their tolerance for other ethnic groups and their solidarity and it enriches the representatives of both ethnic groups at the regulatory value level, making them carriers of both culture. A. S. Berberyan, H. S. Berberyan introduction Theoretical and methodological frameworkOver the past several decades the problems of ethnic identity have come to the fore because of peoples desire for the preservation and development of their unique cultures.The study of identity as a mechanism of adaptation within unconscious processes is a significant contribution made by the representatives of the classic psychoanalytic school: S. Freud, A. Adler, J. Bowlby, M. Klein, M. Müller, U. Meissner, J. Piaget, H. Sullivan, A. Freud, K. Horney, R. Shafer, Karl G. Jung (Bowlby, 1969; Guntrip,1971;Su…

286. Abs: Abs | Goog: Goog | GoogSchol: GS | DOI: 10.4135/9781452233703.n8 | Journal Impact Factor | Journal Metrics | Article Metrics
Title: The Personal Meaning System in a Life-Span Perspective
Author(s): Dittmann-Kohli, Freya and Westerhof, Gerben J.
Cites per Year: 1 Cites: 24 Year: 2000 Journal: ‘ J-Rnks 1-3: 0 | |
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287. Abs: Abs | Goog: Goog | GoogSchol: GS | DOI: 10.4135/9781452233703.n2 | Journal Impact Factor | Journal Metrics | Article Metrics
Title: Philosophical Foundations of Existential Meaning
Author(s): Kenyon, Gary M.
Cites per Year: 1 Cites: 24 Year: 2000 Journal: ‘ J-Rnks 1-3: 0 | |
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288. Abs: Abs | Goog: Goog | GoogSchol: GS | DOI: 10.1007/978-94-007-6527-6_11 | Journal Impact Factor | Journal Metrics | Article Metrics
Title: The Meaning of Hope and Vice Versa: Goal-Directed Thinking and the Construction of a Meaningful Life
Author(s): Feldman, David B.
Cites per Year: 1 Cites: 11 Year: 2013 Journal: ‘ J-Rnks 1-3: 0 | |
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289. Abs: Abs | Goog: Goog | GoogSchol: GS | DOI: 10.1016/S0885-2111(06)10010-1 | Journal Impact Factor | Journal Metrics | Article Metrics
Title: Consumption and the meaning of life
Author(s): Tian, K and Belk, R
Cites per Year: 1 Cites: 17 Year: 2006 Journal: ‘ J-Rnks 1-3: 0 | |
Abstract Text: Through an analysis of data from depth interviews with modern American consumers, we examine whether and how individuals quest for lifes meaning through consumption. Our …

290. Abs: Abs | Goog: Goog | GoogSchol: GS | DOI: 10.1016/0303-7207(90)90163-3 | Journal Impact Factor | Journal Metrics | Article Metrics
Title: 11β-Hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase and the meaning of life
Author(s): Funder, J.W.
Cites per Year: 1 Cites: 31 Year: 1990 Journal: Molecular and Cellular Endocrinology J-Rnks 1-3: 4154 | 1.009 | 159
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291. Abs: Abs | Goog: Goog | GoogSchol: GS | DOI: 10.1300/J491v01n04_03 | Journal Impact Factor | Journal Metrics | Article Metrics
Title: Reflections on the meaning of life in older age
Author(s): Missinne, LE and Willeke-Kay, J
Cites per Year: 1 Cites: 35 Year: 1985 Journal: ‘ J-Rnks 1-3: 0 | |
Abstract Text: … Viktor Frankls theory concerning meaning of life is applied to specific problems and needs of the elderly. Four aspects of his theory are emphasized: (a) the creation of meaning of life …

292. Abs: Abs | Goog: Goog | GoogSchol: GS | DOI: 10.1017/S0953820800003769 | Journal Impact Factor | Journal Metrics | Article Metrics
Title: Utilitarianism and the Meaning of Life
Author(s): Metz, T.
Cites per Year: 1 Cites: 19 Year: 2003 Journal: Utilitas J-Rnks 1-3: 13976 | 0.340 | 26
Abstract Text: This article addresses the utilitarian theory of lifes meaning according to which a persons existence is significant just in so far as she makes those in the world better off. One aim is to explore the extent to which the utilitarian theory has counter-intuitive implications about which lives count as meaningful. A second aim is to develop a new, broadly Kantian theory of what makes a life meaningful, a theory that retains much of what makes the utilitarian view attractive, while avoiding the most important objections facing it and providing a principled explanation of their force.

293. Abs: Abs | Goog: Goog | GoogSchol: GS | DOI: 10.15703/kjc.15.1.201402.259 | Journal Impact Factor | Journal Metrics | Article Metrics
Title: The Relationship between Perceiving a Calling and Life Satisfaction: The Mediating Effects of Work Meaning, Living a Calling, Life Meaning, and Job Satisfaction
Author(s): 장진이 and Yon, Lee Jee
Cites per Year: 1 Cites: 9 Year: 2014 Journal: ‘ J-Rnks 1-3: 0 | |
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294. Abs: Abs | Goog: Goog | GoogSchol: GS | DOI: 10.1177/000276487030003007 | Journal Impact Factor | Journal Metrics | Article Metrics
Title: The panorama of humor and the meaning of life
Author(s): Mindess, H
Cites per Year: 1 Cites: 31 Year: 1987 Journal: ‘ J-Rnks 1-3: 0 | |
Abstract Text: Some years ago, a publisher I had met made me an offer I couldnt refuse. If I could compose a book on Jewish humor within a period of 30 days, he would printit. The rush, in case you …

295. Abs: Abs | Goog: Goog | GoogSchol: GS | DOI: 10.1086/291436 | Journal Impact Factor | Journal Metrics | Article Metrics
Title: Tolstoi and the Meaning of Life
Author(s): Flew, A
Cites per Year: 1 Cites: 50 Year: 1963 Journal: ‘ J-Rnks 1-3: 0 | |
Abstract Text: … In this work Tolstoi recounts his personal search for the meaning of life. It is a powerful … the meaning of the question: What is the meaning of life? Once the close examination of Tolstois …

296. Abs: Abs | Goog: Goog | GoogSchol: GS | DOI: 10.1016/b978-0-12-818849-1.00001-1 | Journal Impact Factor | Journal Metrics | Article Metrics
Title: Meaning in life amidst life transitions
Author(s): Altmaier, Elizabeth M.
Cites per Year: 1 Cites: 4 Year: 2020 Journal: ‘ J-Rnks 1-3: 0 | |
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297. Abs: Abs | Goog: Goog | GoogSchol: GS | DOI: 10.4324/9780415249126-l044-2 | Journal Impact Factor | Journal Metrics | Article Metrics
Title: Life, meaning of
Author(s): Metz, Thaddeus
Cites per Year: 1 Cites: 4 Year: 2020 Journal: ‘ J-Rnks 1-3: 0 | |
Abstract Text: Focusing on recent Anglo-American (analytic) philosophical books devoted to the question of what, if anything, would make life meaningful, it is standard to draw a distinction between the meaning ‘in life’ and ‘of life’. The latter is about what might make the life of the human race as a whole meaningful, whereas the former – which a large majority of the field has addressed – concerns what could make the life of an individual human person meaningful. By ‘meaning’ (in life) most contemporary philosophers have in mind a cluster of related final values, such as: making sense of one’s life; composing an interesting life-story; living in ways that merit reactions such as esteem; realising purposes that are much higher than animal pleasures; or making a contribution to something greater than oneself. Characteristic instances of meaning include love, knowledge, and creativity. Such an analysis indicates that meaning in life is an evaluative category distinct from subjective happiness and moral rightness.

298. Abs: Abs | Goog: Goog | GoogSchol: GS | DOI: 10.1177/1742395312448940 | Journal Impact Factor | Journal Metrics | Article Metrics
Title: The meaning of life prognosis disclosure for Japanese cancer patients: A qualitative study of patients narratives
Author(s): Sato, R.S.
Cites per Year: 1 Cites: 10 Year: 2012 Journal: Chronic Illness J-Rnks 1-3: 8852 | 0.583 | 46
Abstract Text: The major problem underlying the practice of prognostic disclosure is the absence of mutual understanding of how such information will be utilized. These findings affirm that it should be used to empower patients to participate in the decision-making process.

299. Abs: Abs | Goog: Goog | GoogSchol: GS | DOI: 10.1007/978-94-007-6527-6_30 | Journal Impact Factor | Journal Metrics | Article Metrics
Title: Meaning in Life as the Aim of Psychotherapy: A Hypothesis
Author(s): Metz, Thaddeus
Cites per Year: 1 Cites: 9 Year: 2013 Journal: ‘ J-Rnks 1-3: 0 | |
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300. Abs: Abs | Goog: Goog | GoogSchol: GS | DOI: 10.1037/14040-009 | Journal Impact Factor | Journal Metrics | Article Metrics
Title: How actors, agents, and authors find meaning in life.
Author(s): McAdams, Dan P.
Cites per Year: 1 Cites: 9 Year: 2013 Journal: ‘ J-Rnks 1-3: 0 | |
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301. Abs: Abs | Goog: Goog | GoogSchol: GS | DOI: 10.1007/978-94-007-6527-6_4 | Journal Impact Factor | Journal Metrics | Article Metrics
Title: Meaning Maintenance Model: Introducing Soren to Existential Social Psychology
Author(s): Proulx, Travis
Cites per Year: 1 Cites: 9 Year: 2013 Journal: ‘ J-Rnks 1-3: 0 | |
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302. Abs: Abs | Goog: Goog | GoogSchol: GS | DOI: 10.1037/14040-011 | Journal Impact Factor | Journal Metrics | Article Metrics
Title: Wrestling with our better selves: The search for meaning in life.
Author(s): Steger, Michael F.
Cites per Year: 1 Cites: 9 Year: 2013 Journal: ‘ J-Rnks 1-3: 0 | |
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303. Abs: Abs | Goog: Goog | GoogSchol: GS | DOI: 10.1016/j.wsif.2013.05.015 | Journal Impact Factor | Journal Metrics | Article Metrics
Title: Meaning of life after cancer: An existential-phenomenological approach to female cancer survival
Author(s): Laranjeira, C.
Cites per Year: 1 Cites: 9 Year: 2013 Journal: Women’s Studies International Forum J-Rnks 1-3: 11907 | 0.426 | 66
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304. Abs: Abs | Goog: Goog | GoogSchol: GS | DOI: 10.2466/PR0.99.1.131-146 | Journal Impact Factor | Journal Metrics | Article Metrics
Title: Ultimate, provisional, and personal meaning of life: Differences and common ground
Author(s): Auhagen, A.
Cites per Year: 1 Cites: 14 Year: 2006 Journal: Psychological Reports J-Rnks 1-3: 7328 | 0.684 | 78
Abstract Text: Building on Viktor Frankls clinical approach of Logotherapy and the works of subsequent theoreticians, three types of meaning of life were theoretically derived and empirically investigated, Ultimate, Provisional, and Personal meaning. These types were characterized, first, by the amount of agreement of subjects, second, by sources of Life Meaning, which were assessed by content analyses, third, by correlations, and fourth by prediction with ratings of important life concepts from the domains of Well-being, Religiosity, and Prosocial Behavior. 192 German adults, 45 men and 147 women, whose M age was 31.6 yr. (SD = 11.9), participated. Analysis indicated different sources for the Ultimate meaning compared with the other meaning types, which seem to display more similarities with each other. Other important life concepts, such as Belief, Harmony, Happiness, and Human Goodness were related to the investigated types of meaning of life. Some implications for clinical applications, research perspectives, and Positive Psychology are discussed.

305. Abs: Abs | Goog: Goog | GoogSchol: GS | DOI: 10.1590/S0102-79722010000200009 | Journal Impact Factor | Journal Metrics | Article Metrics
Title: Meaning of life in adulthood and later life
Author(s): Sommerhalder, C.
Cites per Year: 1 Cites: 11 Year: 2010 Journal: Psicologia: Reflexao e Critica J-Rnks 1-3: 12578 | 0.396 | 26
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306. Abs: Abs | Goog: Goog | GoogSchol: GS | DOI: 10.2307/jj.26193146 | Journal Impact Factor | Journal Metrics | Article Metrics
Title: The Meaning of Life
Author(s): Mauer, Marc .et al
Cites per Year: 1 Cites: 5 Year: 2018 Journal: ‘ J-Rnks 1-3: 0 | |
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307. Abs: Abs | Goog: Goog | GoogSchol: GS | DOI: 10.1111/1467-7709.00086 | Journal Impact Factor | Journal Metrics | Article Metrics
Title: Diplomatic History and the Meaning of Life: Toward a Global American History
Author(s): Hoffman, E.C.
Cites per Year: 1 Cites: 20 Year: 1997 Journal: Diplomatic History J-Rnks 1-3: 16576 | 0.258 | 36
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308. Abs: Abs | Goog: Goog | GoogSchol: GS | DOI: 10.1007/s10943-005-7180-0 | Journal Impact Factor | Journal Metrics | Article Metrics
Title: Between imposing ones will and protecting oneself. Narcissism and the meaning of life among dutch pastors
Author(s): Zondag, H.
Cites per Year: 1 Cites: 14 Year: 2005 Journal: Journal of Religion and Health J-Rnks 1-3: 6050 | 0.793 | 52
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309. Abs: Abs | Goog: Goog | GoogSchol: GS | DOI: 10.1177/1468795X14558761 | Journal Impact Factor | Journal Metrics | Article Metrics
Title: Death, happiness and the meaning of life: The view from sociology
Author(s): Blum, A.
Cites per Year: 1 Cites: 7 Year: 2015 Journal: Journal of Classical Sociology J-Rnks 1-3: 13766 | 0.347 | 27
Abstract Text: This article recovers the understated engagement with the question of mortality and the relationship to death in life through a reading of the classics of sociology – Durkheim, Marx, Simmel and Weber–in order to dramatize the relationship of such a concern to the imaginary of perpetual happiness idealized by the bourgeoisie of each generation and exemplified by Lacan as the ‘problem’ of the city. If engaging mortality is conceived as an example of the thinking of limits, I suggest that this ban parallels disavowing the question of meaning that the bourgeoisie have cultivated and perfected in the name of practical thinking. In this way, the bourgeoisie can be said to have mastered the secret of life and the connection between mental hygiene and intellectual parsimony celebrated by Kant as the advance of enlightenment. This adjustment is located at least as far back as the Stoics and replayed in much thought and in popular culture as a symptom of the self-destructiveness of the fixation on ‘ultimate meaning’ and its realistic pursuit in life. In this sense, the conditions of citizenship in the city are said to require a systemic disregard of such ‘deep’ concerns on Kantian grounds that their inaccessibility and irresolute character can only distract circumspection from its limited goals. Georg Simmel is maintained as the classical figure who both engaged death (and so the risk of thinking limit) and suffered marginalization for this, making his resolution of this tension not tragic, as his idiom suggests, but an exemplification of sociological artistry and of the playful relationship to life that it promises when unencumbered by the fear of the bourgeoisie.

310. Abs: Abs | Goog: Goog | GoogSchol: GS | DOI: 10.1007/978-94-007-6527-6_13 | Journal Impact Factor | Journal Metrics | Article Metrics
Title: Judgments of Meaning in Life Following an Existential Crisis
Author(s): Davis, William E. and Hicks, Joshua A.
Cites per Year: 1 Cites: 8 Year: 2013 Journal: ‘ J-Rnks 1-3: 0 | |
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311. Abs: Abs | Goog: Goog | GoogSchol: GS | DOI: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190063504.013.2 | Journal Impact Factor | Journal Metrics | Article Metrics
Title: Subjectivism and Objectivism about Meaning in Life
Author(s): Johansson, Jens and Svensson, Frans
Cites per Year: 1 Cites: 2 Year: 2022 Journal: ‘ J-Rnks 1-3: 0 | |
Abstract Text: Abstract: This chapter is an opinionated survey of three main views about meaning in life: objectivism, on which a component of a person’s life can contribute meaning to it even if she in no way cares about the component; pure subjectivism, on which the person’s caring about the component in some suitable way is all it takes for the component to contribute meaning to her life; and hybridism, on which whether a component of someone’s life contributes meaning to it depends both on her caring about the component in some suitable way and the objective value of the component. The authors discuss various central challenges that these three views respectively face. Among other things, they provide reasons to think that the challenges for pure subjectivism are less serious than they are ordinarily taken to be, and less serious than those that confront objectivism and hybridism.

312. Abs: Abs | Goog: Goog | GoogSchol: GS | DOI: 10.2991/978-94-6463-096-1_3 | Journal Impact Factor | Journal Metrics | Article Metrics
Title: Meaning in Life Across Cultures and Times: An Evidence-Based Overview
Author(s): Vos, Joel
Cites per Year: 1 Cites: 2 Year: 2022 Journal: ‘ J-Rnks 1-3: 0 | |
Abstract Text: Not Available – Click on ABS link above.

313. Abs: Abs | Goog: Goog | GoogSchol: GS | DOI: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190063504.013.1 | Journal Impact Factor | Journal Metrics | Article Metrics
Title: The Concept of Life’s Meaning
Author(s): Metz, Thaddeus
Cites per Year: 1 Cites: 2 Year: 2022 Journal: ‘ J-Rnks 1-3: 0 | |
Abstract Text: Abstract: The author of this chapter critically discusses views about what at least analytic philosophers have in mind when reflecting on what makes life meaningful. He first demonstrates that there has been a standard view of that, according to which meaningfulness involves the actions of persons, ones that exhibit a high desirability characteristically present in ‘the good, the true, and the beautiful’ and absent from the cases of Sisyphus or the Experience Machine. Then, he addresses five recent challenges to the standard view. He concludes that the standard view should be revised to accommodate judgements that animal lives can exhibit a limited meaning, groups of human persons can exhibit substantial meaning, and there is a difference between mundane and great meaning possible in the life of a person. However, he resists radical suggestions that meaningfulness never inheres in people’s actions, but only in information, or that it need not be positive, but can be negative.

314. Abs: Abs | Goog: Goog | GoogSchol: GS | DOI: 10.2991/978-94-6463-096-1_4 | Journal Impact Factor | Journal Metrics | Article Metrics
Title: Leveraging the Experience Sampling Method to Study Meaning in Everyday Life
Author(s): Heintzelman, Samantha J. and Mohideen, Fahima
Cites per Year: 1 Cites: 2 Year: 2022 Journal: ‘ J-Rnks 1-3: 0 | |
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315. Abs: Abs | Goog: Goog | GoogSchol: GS | DOI: 10.2991/978-94-6463-096-1_6 | Journal Impact Factor | Journal Metrics | Article Metrics
Title: The Role of Meaning in Life During the COVID-19 Pandemic on Young Adults’ Future Perspectives in Italy and Portugal
Author(s): Zambelli, Michela .et al
Cites per Year: 1 Cites: 2 Year: 2022 Journal: ‘ J-Rnks 1-3: 0 | |
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316. Abs: Abs | Goog: Goog | GoogSchol: GS | DOI: 10.1023/A:1026443102202 | Journal Impact Factor | Journal Metrics | Article Metrics
Title: World and Life or Education and the Question of Meaning (of Life)
Author(s): Masschelein, J
Cites per Year: 1 Cites: 18 Year: 1998 Journal: ‘ J-Rnks 1-3: 0 | |
Abstract Text: … The first meaning of life, zoé, refers to the simple fact of bare life, which is proper to everything that lives and is detached from all (particular) forms of life. Life indicates, according to Van …

317. Abs: Abs | Goog: Goog | GoogSchol: GS | DOI: 10.24204/ejpr.v2i2.366 | Journal Impact Factor | Journal Metrics | Article Metrics
Title: Sources of dissatisfaction with answers to the question of the meaning of life
Author(s): Mawson, T.
Cites per Year: 1 Cites: 10 Year: 2010 Journal: European Journal for Philosophy of Religion J-Rnks 1-3: 19379 | 0.196 | 12
Abstract Text: In this paper, I seek to diagnose the sources of our dissatisfaction with answers to the question of the meaning of life. I contend that some of these have to do with the question (its polyvalence and persistent vagueness) and some have to do with life and meaningfulness themselves. By showing how dissatisfaction arises and the extent to which it is in-eliminable even by God, I hope to show that we should be satisfied with our dissatisfaction.

318. Abs: Abs | Goog: Goog | GoogSchol: GS | DOI: 10.1007/s11019-012-9439-z | Journal Impact Factor | Journal Metrics | Article Metrics
Title: Organ transplantation and meaning of life: The quest for self fulfilment
Author(s): Quintin, J.
Cites per Year: 1 Cites: 8 Year: 2013 Journal: Medicine J-Rnks 1-3: 0 | 9338 | 0.554
Abstract Text: Today, the frequency and the rate of success resulting from advances in medicine have made organ transplantations an everyday occurrence. Still, organ transplantations and donations modify the subjective experience of human beings as regards the image they have of themselves, of body, of life and of death. If the concern of the quality of life and the survival of the patients is a completely human phenomenon, the fact remains that the possibility of organ transplantation and its justification depend a great deal on the culture in which we live. The exploration of the philosophical tradition allows for a reconsideration of organ transplantation. If we listen to people who have experienced the decline of one of their organs and their own rebirth through the organ of someone else, we arrive at the conclusion that they went through an extreme experience in which nothing appeared as before. All those experiences intensify philosophical questionings on the meaning of life with respect to self fulfilment. The concept of nature as the experience of others can be an authentic source from which to nourish our thoughts about organ transplantation. However, and this is our hypothesis, we need something more if we are to decide something about our own life. We need a hermeneutical stance in relation to ourselves and to our world. Philosophical counselling, as a long established tradition originating with Pythagoras and later reframed by the German philosopher Achenbach could be useful in inspiring a reflection on the good life, chiefly as it takes the form of a Socratic dialogue.

319. Abs: Abs | Goog: Goog | GoogSchol: GS | DOI: 10.1590/1413-7372210860005 | Journal Impact Factor | Journal Metrics | Article Metrics
Title: Meanings of life trajectories by teenagers in conflict with the law
Author(s): Gomes, C.
Cites per Year: 1 Cites: 7 Year: 2014 Journal: Psicologia em Estudo J-Rnks 1-3: 22510 | 0.142 | 18
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320. Abs: Abs | Goog: Goog | GoogSchol: GS | DOI: 10.2190/825Y-GWAT-9BM8-G5TR | Journal Impact Factor | Journal Metrics | Article Metrics
Title: The meaning of life: Animism in the classificatory skills of older adults
Author(s): McDonald, L.
Cites per Year: 1 Cites: 15 Year: 2000 Journal: International Journal of Aging and Human Development J-Rnks 1-3: 5284 | 0.867 | 66
Abstract Text: Seventy-five participants aged from their teens to their seventies were measured on a battery of measures of personality, lifestyle, intelligence, and educational background. These measures were gauged against performance on a measure of animism, in which participants judged twenty-three items (4 alive, 19 non-living) as living or non-living. Although animism errors increased with age, all groups displayed animism errors, thereby contradicting Piaget (1965). Performance is partially explained by fluid intelligence level, but is more plausibly ascribed to progressive loss of what is essentially peripheral information to non-academic people.

321. Abs: Abs | Goog: Goog | GoogSchol: GS | DOI: 10.1177/026142940501900310 | Journal Impact Factor | Journal Metrics | Article Metrics
Title: How Do Gifted Girls Perceive the Meaning of Life?
Author(s): Tirri, K.
Cites per Year: 1 Cites: 12 Year: 2005 Journal: Gifted Education International J-Rnks 1-3: 18980 | 0.204 | 16
Abstract Text: This paper explores gifted girls perceptions on the meaning of life. Ninety-five gifted sixth-grade students completed tests on moral reasoning (DIT) and spiritual sensitivity. Two illustrative cases of girls who had either high or low scores in the tests are presented with phenomenological analysis of their perceptions on the meaning of life. The cases of Jean and Susan show that students with similar academic profiles can have very different world-views and orientations in life. These differences are reflected in their spiritual sensitivity and moral judgment. Furthermore, the world-views can guide gifted girls in their career choices more than their academic strengths. The main challenge to teachers and counsellors is to guide gifted girls to make career choices that make them happy. The counsellors need to show gifted girls that their professional choices can suit their personal life orientations. In this process educators should be aware of the world-views of gifted girls.

322. Abs: Abs | Goog: Goog | GoogSchol: GS | DOI: 10.1057/9780230583153-10 | Journal Impact Factor | Journal Metrics | Article Metrics
Title: God, morality and the meaning of life
Author(s): Metz, T.
Cites per Year: 1 Cites: 10 Year: 2008 Journal: ‘ J-Rnks 1-3: 0 | |
Abstract Text: Not Available – Click on ABS link above.

323. Abs: Abs | Goog: Goog | GoogSchol: GS | DOI: 10.1007/978-94-007-6527-6_9 | Journal Impact Factor | Journal Metrics | Article Metrics
Title: Emotions and Meaning in Life: A Motivational Perspective
Author(s): Tang, David .et al
Cites per Year: 1 Cites: 7 Year: 2013 Journal: ‘ J-Rnks 1-3: 0 | |
Abstract Text: Not Available – Click on ABS link above.

324. Abs: Abs | Goog: Goog | GoogSchol: GS | DOI: 10.1525/eth.1982.10.1.02a00030 | Journal Impact Factor | Journal Metrics | Article Metrics
Title: Gusii Funerals: Meanings of Life and Death in an African Community
Author(s): LeVINE, R.A.
Cites per Year: 1 Cites: 25 Year: 1982 Journal: Ethos J-Rnks 1-3: 12093 | 0.417 | 51
Abstract Text: Not Available – Click on ABS link above.

325. Abs: Abs | Goog: Goog | GoogSchol: GS | DOI: 10.1023/A:1014465302653 | Journal Impact Factor | Journal Metrics | Article Metrics
Title: The meaning of life
Author(s): Adams, E.
Cites per Year: 1 Cites: 13 Year: 2002 Journal: International Journal for Philosophy of Religion J-Rnks 1-3: 12597 | 0.395 | 19
Abstract Text: Not Available – Click on ABS link above.

326. Abs: Abs | Goog: Goog | GoogSchol: GS | DOI: 10.1142/10012 | Journal Impact Factor | Journal Metrics | Article Metrics
Title: Meaning of Life and the Universe
Author(s): Ho, Mae-Wan
Cites per Year: 1 Cites: 5 Year: 2016 Journal: ‘ J-Rnks 1-3: 0 | |
Abstract Text: Not Available – Click on ABS link above.

327. Abs: Abs | Goog: Goog | GoogSchol: GS | DOI: 10.1007/s11841-013-0369-x | Journal Impact Factor | Journal Metrics | Article Metrics
Title: Optimistic naturalism: Scientific advancement and the meaning of life
Author(s): Weijers, D.
Cites per Year: 1 Cites: 6 Year: 2014 Journal: Sophia J-Rnks 1-3: 14927 | 0.307 | 14
Abstract Text: Not Available – Click on ABS link above.

328. Abs: Abs | Goog: Goog | GoogSchol: GS | DOI: 10.5604/17322693.1014657 | Journal Impact Factor | Journal Metrics | Article Metrics
Title: Patients perception of the meaning of life in cystic fibrosis – Its evaluation with respect to the stage of the disease and treatment
Author(s): Cepuch, G.
Cites per Year: 1 Cites: 7 Year: 2012 Journal: Postepy Higieny i Medycyny Doswiadczalnej J-Rnks 1-3: 22996 | 0.135 | 42
Abstract Text: CF with its poor prognosis has a significant impact on patients hierarchy of respected values and life priorities. High level of acceptance for suicidal behaviours observed in all diagnostic subgroups of patients with CF indicates a need for organized intensified psychological care.

329. Abs: Abs | Goog: Goog | GoogSchol: GS | DOI: 10.1016/S0929-6646(09)60137-6 | Journal Impact Factor | Journal Metrics | Article Metrics
Title: Factors related to meaning of life in Taiwanese women treated with in vitro fertilization
Author(s): Su, T.
Cites per Year: 1 Cites: 10 Year: 2006 Journal: Journal of the Formosan Medical Association J-Rnks 1-3: 5393 | 0.856 | 66
Abstract Text: Treatment stage, educational level, and etiology of infertility were found to be factors influencing the meaning of life in women undergoing IVF.

330. Abs: Abs | Goog: Goog | GoogSchol: GS | DOI: 10.1177/030908920202700205 | Journal Impact Factor | Journal Metrics | Article Metrics
Title: The answer to the meaning of life, the universe and the Elohistic Psalter
Author(s): Joffe, L.
Cites per Year: 1 Cites: 12 Year: 2002 Journal: Journal for the Study of the Old Testament J-Rnks 1-3: 12601 | 0.395 | 20
Abstract Text: This article asks why the Elohistic Psalter (Pss. 42–83) was commissioned. It is suggested that the Elohistic Psalter was constructed in order to invoke a ‘magic triangle’ (comprising God’s name, the number 42, and a blessing) for some apotropaic purpose. It is argued that this theory gains credence from two areas: first, the importance of numerical organization of large groups of Psalms; and, second, the history of the number 42, which in biblical times was a number of disaster, and in later Jewish tradition became associated with a protective name of God.

331. Abs: Abs | Goog: Goog | GoogSchol: GS | DOI: 10.4135/9781452233703.n6 | Journal Impact Factor | Journal Metrics | Article Metrics
Title: Dimensions and Discourses of Meaning in Life: Approaching Meaning from Qualitative Perspectives
Author(s): O’Connor, Kay and Chamberlain, Kerry
Cites per Year: 1 Cites: 13 Year: 2000 Journal: ‘ J-Rnks 1-3: 0 | |
Abstract Text: Not Available – Click on ABS link above.

332. Abs: Abs | Goog: Goog | GoogSchol: GS | DOI: 10.4135/9781452233703.n9 | Journal Impact Factor | Journal Metrics | Article Metrics
Title: The Development of a Culturally Sensitive Measure of Sources of Life Meaning
Author(s): Prager, Edward .et al
Cites per Year: 1 Cites: 13 Year: 2000 Journal: ‘ J-Rnks 1-3: 0 | |
Abstract Text: Not Available – Click on ABS link above.

333. Abs: Abs | Goog: Goog | GoogSchol: GS | DOI: 10.4135/9781452233703.n5 | Journal Impact Factor | Journal Metrics | Article Metrics
Title: Structural Components of Personal Meaning in Life and Their Relationship with Death Attitudes and Coping Mechanisms in Late Adulthood
Author(s): Ranst, Nancy Van and Marcoen, Alfons
Cites per Year: 1 Cites: 13 Year: 2000 Journal: ‘ J-Rnks 1-3: 0 | |
Abstract Text: Not Available – Click on ABS link above.

334. Abs: Abs | Goog: Goog | GoogSchol: GS | DOI: 10.4135/9781452233703.n7 | Journal Impact Factor | Journal Metrics | Article Metrics
Title: An Inquiry into Existential Meaning: Theoretical, Clinical, and Phenomenal Perspectives
Author(s): Debats, Dominique L.
Cites per Year: 1 Cites: 13 Year: 2000 Journal: ‘ J-Rnks 1-3: 0 | |
Abstract Text: Not Available – Click on ABS link above.

335. Abs: Abs | Goog: Goog | GoogSchol: GS | DOI: 10.1353/book12678 | Journal Impact Factor | Journal Metrics | Article Metrics
Title: Nature Is Enough: Religious Naturalism and the Meaning of Life
Author(s): Rue, Loyal
Cites per Year: 1 Cites: 7 Year: 2011 Journal: ‘ J-Rnks 1-3: 0 | |
Abstract Text: Not Available – Click on ABS link above.

336. Abs: Abs | Goog: Goog | GoogSchol: GS | DOI: 10.1057/9781137440914 | Journal Impact Factor | Journal Metrics | Article Metrics
Title: Wittgenstein and Meaning in Life
Author(s): Hosseini, Reza
Cites per Year: 1 Cites: 5 Year: 2015 Journal: ‘ J-Rnks 1-3: 0 | |
Abstract Text: Not Available – Click on ABS link above.

337. Abs: Abs | Goog: Goog | GoogSchol: GS | DOI: 10.4324/9781315447247 | Journal Impact Factor | Journal Metrics | Article Metrics
Title: Existence, Meaning, Excellence
Author(s): Bielskis, Andrius
Cites per Year: 1 Cites: 4 Year: 2017 Journal: ‘ J-Rnks 1-3: 0 | |
Abstract Text: Not Available – Click on ABS link above.

338. Abs: Abs | Goog: Goog | GoogSchol: GS | DOI: 10.4013/fsu.2019.202.04 | Journal Impact Factor | Journal Metrics | Article Metrics
Title: On the meaning of “the meaning of life”
Author(s): Kiymaz, Tufan
Cites per Year: 1 Cites: 3 Year: 2019 Journal: Filosofia Unisinos J-Rnks 1-3: 24059 | 0.122 | 6
Abstract Text: This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0), which permits reproduction, adaptation, and distribution provided the original author and source are credited.

339. Abs: Abs | Goog: Goog | GoogSchol: GS | DOI: 10.31234/osf.io/2xjh7 | Journal Impact Factor | Journal Metrics | Article Metrics
Title: The Relationship between Presence of Meaning, Search for Meaning, and Subjective Well-Being: A Three-Level Meta-Analysis based on the Meaning in Life Questionnaire
Author(s): Li, Jian Bin and Dou, Kai
Cites per Year: 1 Cites: 3 Year: 2019 Journal: ‘ J-Rnks 1-3: 0 | |
Abstract Text:

Meaning in life can be understood as how much people experience life meaning, i.e., presence of meaning (POM) and how intensely they seek life meaning, i.e., search for meaning (SFM). Previous research has related POM and SFM to the subjective well-being (SWB) of individuals, but the findings are inconsistent. This meta-analysis investigates the overall relationship between POM/SFM and SWB by examining previous studies that have used Steger et al.’s (2006) Meaning in Life Questionnaire to assess POM and SFM. Results of 148 studies, reporting 726 effect sizes (N=92,169), suggest the effect size for the “POM–SWB” relationship is close to medium (ESz=0.418, p&lt;.001, 95% CI=[0.390,0.446]). The effect is larger in life satisfaction and cross-sectional studies. The effect size for the “SFM–SWB” association is small (ESz=-.121, p&lt;.001, 95% CI=[-0.155,-0.817]), with the effect being larger for negative affect, cross-sectional studies, and older participants. Interestingly, SFM is positively related to SWB for participants from countries with a high collectivism index, suggesting a stronger association for people from such countries. This study shows a robust link between presence of life meaning and greater SWB, and that while searching for life meaning may be adverse to SWB, the effect is small and conditional.

340. Abs: Abs | Goog: Goog | GoogSchol: GS | DOI: 10.32388/1lt25r | Journal Impact Factor | Journal Metrics | Article Metrics
Title: Re: Teleology and the Meaning of Life
Author(s): Kiritani, Osamu
Cites per Year: 1 Cites: 1 Year: 2023 Journal: ‘ J-Rnks 1-3: 0 | |
Abstract Text: This paper amplifies my argument about the meaning of life, using ChatGPT not to be subjective or personal.

341. Abs: Abs | Goog: Goog | GoogSchol: GS | DOI: 10.4324/9781003451495-2 | Journal Impact Factor | Journal Metrics | Article Metrics
Title: The African vital force theory of meaning in life
Author(s): Agada, Ada
Cites per Year: 1 Cites: 1 Year: 2023 Journal: ‘ J-Rnks 1-3: 0 | |
Abstract Text: Not Available – Click on ABS link above.

342. Abs: Abs | Goog: Goog | GoogSchol: GS | DOI: 10.32388/nowq71 | Journal Impact Factor | Journal Metrics | Article Metrics
Title: Review of: Re: Teleology and the Meaning of Life
Author(s): Harvey, Inman
Cites per Year: 1 Cites: 1 Year: 2023 Journal: ‘ J-Rnks 1-3: 0 | |
Abstract Text: Not Available – Click on ABS link above.

343. Abs: Abs | Goog: Goog | GoogSchol: GS | DOI: 10.1177/09716858231185619 | Journal Impact Factor | Journal Metrics | Article Metrics
Title: Meaning Autonomy and Objective Meaning in Life
Author(s): Kügler, Peter
Cites per Year: 1 Cites: 1 Year: 2023 Journal: Journal of Human Values J-Rnks 1-3: 19703 | 0.190 | 17
Abstract Text: Subjectivism states that meaning in life is determined by what subjects regard as meaningful. Objectivism denies this. The main argument against subjectivism is that it allows for seemingly worthless, or even immoral, sources of meaning. Objectivism, on the other hand, does not do justice to the role of subjective perspectives in the quest for meaning. This paper addresses the shortcomings of both positions by referring to the objective value of ‘meaning autonomy’, defined here as the freedom to determine for oneself what is meaningful in life. While the notion of meaning autonomy is compatible with realist objectivism, objectivity is understood in a non-realist sense in this paper, as being based on cultural standards of meaningfulness. Subjective meaning may be attached to ‘worthless’ activities, but it cannot contradict the moral norms of the society that grants its members meaning autonomy.

344. Abs: Abs | Goog: Goog | GoogSchol: GS | DOI: 10.1177/0011392105049546 | Journal Impact Factor | Journal Metrics | Article Metrics
Title: Cloning/stem cells and the meaning of life
Author(s): David, M.
Cites per Year: 1 Cites: 10 Year: 2005 Journal: Current Sociology J-Rnks 1-3: 6591 | 0.742 | 76
Abstract Text: This article explores recent controversies over human cloning, stem cell research and the potential applications of both. Much of the fear of human reproductive cloning has been escalated by media calling on scare stories from Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World and Ira Levin’s The Boys from Brazil, which both stimulates public fear and clouds debate. Is it possible to take a detached view about whether the risks are worth taking? While technologies now offer new dilemmas and possibilities, this article moves beyond the current impasse between technically optimistic market individualism and traditional (often religious) forms of moral collectivism. This critical theory and the concept of alienation offer useful points of departure, in addressing the body as site of both social anxiety and of nature-social boundary disputes.

345. Abs: Abs | Goog: Goog | GoogSchol: GS | DOI: 10.3197/096327111X13077055165866 | Journal Impact Factor | Journal Metrics | Article Metrics
Title: Reply to Holland. The meaning of life and Darwinism
Author(s): Cottingham, J.
Cites per Year: 1 Cites: 7 Year: 2011 Journal: Environmental Values J-Rnks 1-3: 6752 | 0.729 | 53
Abstract Text: While finding no fault with Darwinism as a scientific theory, this paper argues that there are serious problems for the scientistic construal of Darwinism that interprets the universe as nothing but a purely random and contingent flow of events. Life in a godless impersonal universe is beset by contingency, alienation, despair, failure and fragility. Notwithstanding Alan Hollands claim that we can evade these problems though self-affirmation, I argue that human beings can achieve meaningful lives only by acknowledging our dependency and accepting the authority of values we did not create.

346. Abs: Abs | Goog: Goog | GoogSchol: GS | DOI: 10.4135/9781452233703.n11 | Journal Impact Factor | Journal Metrics | Article Metrics
Title: Making Meaning within the Experience of Life-Threatening Illness
Author(s): Coward, Doris D.
Cites per Year: 0 Cites: 12 Year: 2000 Journal: ‘ J-Rnks 1-3: 0 | |
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347. Abs: Abs | Goog: Goog | GoogSchol: GS | DOI: 10.1017/S0144686X00002105 | Journal Impact Factor | Journal Metrics | Article Metrics
Title: A Classical Indian Philosophical Perspective on Ageing and the Meaning of Life
Author(s): Ram-Prasad, C.
Cites per Year: 0 Cites: 14 Year: 1995 Journal: Ageing and Society J-Rnks 1-3: 4944 | 0.905 | 93
Abstract Text: AbstractIndian thought conceives of life in four normative stages: of student, householder, forest-dweller and renouncer. A metaphysical theory related to the conception of life-stages is that of the ends or purposes of life: appropriate conduct, material well-being, physical satisfaction and liberation. The theory of the ends of life is reconstructed here in the light of contemporary philosophical discussions about the meaning of life. The first three ends are part of a world-oriented attitude; the last end, of world-transcending contemplation. Among age-neutral and age-specific ways of relating life stages and life ends, that of taking old age as the time for the renunciatory stage is important and is examined in the context of the two main theories of meaning: world-oriented and world-transcending. Old age is secondary to earlier stages in a world-oriented theory, more significant in the world-transcendent one. However, both theories, seen independently, are paradoxical. In a synthesis, the world-transcendence of renunciation in old age is paramount in Indian thought, but worldly action is significant because renunciation depends on the richness of the life renounced. This reconstruction of an ancient ideal is offered as a philosophical paradigm for transculturally relevant attitudes to life in old age.

348. Abs: Abs | Goog: Goog | GoogSchol: GS | DOI: 10.1163/9789004495999 | Journal Impact Factor | Journal Metrics | Article Metrics
Title: What is the Meaning of Human Life?
Author(s): Belliotti, Raymond Angelo
Cites per Year: 0 Cites: 11 Year: 2001 Journal: ‘ J-Rnks 1-3: 0 | |
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349. Abs: Abs | Goog: Goog | GoogSchol: GS | DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-41397-6_10 | Journal Impact Factor | Journal Metrics | Article Metrics
Title: Meaning in Life in the Prevention and Treatment of Substance Use Disorders
Author(s): Ortíz, Efrén Martínez and Flórez, Ivonne Andrea
Cites per Year: 0 Cites: 4 Year: 2016 Journal: ‘ J-Rnks 1-3: 0 | |
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350. Abs: Abs | Goog: Goog | GoogSchol: GS | DOI: 10.1641/0006-3568(2000)050[0245:TMOL]2.3.CO;2 | Journal Impact Factor | Journal Metrics | Article Metrics
Title: The meaning of life
Author(s): Chao, L.
Cites per Year: 0 Cites: 11 Year: 2000 Journal: BioScience J-Rnks 1-3: 947 | 2.420 | 233
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351. Abs: Abs | Goog: Goog | GoogSchol: GS | DOI: 10.4324/9781315385945-29 | Journal Impact Factor | Journal Metrics | Article Metrics
Title: Beauvoir and the meaning of life
Author(s): Webber, Jonathan
Cites per Year: 0 Cites: 3 Year: 2018 Journal: ‘ J-Rnks 1-3: 0 | |
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352. Abs: Abs | Goog: Goog | GoogSchol: GS | DOI: 10.2307/j.ctt2005vm7.16 | Journal Impact Factor | Journal Metrics | Article Metrics
Title: THE TRANSHUMAN PARADIGM AND THE MEANING OF LIFE
Author(s): SCHÜES, CHRISTINA
Cites per Year: 0 Cites: 3 Year: 2018 Journal: ‘ J-Rnks 1-3: 0 | |
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353. Abs: Abs | Goog: Goog | GoogSchol: GS | DOI: 10.21236/ada250813 | Journal Impact Factor | Journal Metrics | Article Metrics
Title: Quality of Life: Meaning, Measurement, and Models
Author(s): Kerce, Elyse W.
Cites per Year: 0 Cites: 14 Year: 1992 Journal: ‘ J-Rnks 1-3: 0 | |
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354. Abs: Abs | Goog: Goog | GoogSchol: GS | DOI: 10.4040/jkan.2006.36.5.701 | Journal Impact Factor | Journal Metrics | Article Metrics
Title: Effects of Logotherapy with Exercise on meaning of life, ego integrity and IADL in the elderly
Author(s): Lee, C.
Cites per Year: 0 Cites: 8 Year: 2006 Journal: ‘ J-Rnks 1-3: 0 | |
Abstract Text: Logotherapy with Exercise can be recommended as an effective nursing intervention for the elderly.

355. Abs: Abs | Goog: Goog | GoogSchol: GS | DOI: 10.1016/b978-0-12-818849-1.00007-2 | Journal Impact Factor | Journal Metrics | Article Metrics
Title: Meaning-making and chronic illness: understanding through narratives
Author(s): Bigony, Cara E. and Keitel, Merle A.
Cites per Year: 0 Cites: 2 Year: 2020 Journal: ‘ J-Rnks 1-3: 0 | |
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356. Abs: Abs | Goog: Goog | GoogSchol: GS | DOI: 10.1080/0141620000220206 | Journal Impact Factor | Journal Metrics | Article Metrics
Title: In search of the meaning of life: A study of the ideas of senior compulsory school pupils on life and its meaning in an experiential learning context
Author(s): Eriksson, K.
Cites per Year: 0 Cites: 10 Year: 2000 Journal: British Journal of Religious Education J-Rnks 1-3: 9223 | 0.561 | 29
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357. Abs: Abs | Goog: Goog | GoogSchol: GS | DOI: 10.1641/0006-3568(2000)050[1012:EESATM]2.0.CO;2 | Journal Impact Factor | Journal Metrics | Article Metrics
Title: Evolutionary existentialism, sociobiology, and the meaning of life
Author(s): Barash, D.
Cites per Year: 0 Cites: 10 Year: 2000 Journal: BioScience J-Rnks 1-3: 947 | 2.420 | 233
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358. Abs: Abs | Goog: Goog | GoogSchol: GS | DOI: 10.1080/00455091.1987.10715897 | Journal Impact Factor | Journal Metrics | Article Metrics
Title: Morality and the Meaning of Life: Some First Thoughts
Author(s): Dahl, N.
Cites per Year: 0 Cites: 15 Year: 1987 Journal: Canadian Journal of Philosophy J-Rnks 1-3: 10421 | 0.494 | 33
Abstract Text: Although there may be many questions about the meaning of life that will ultimately prove intractable, I think that there are some questions that can be answered. Furthermore, I think that progress towards answering them can be made through work that has and will be done in moral philosophy. In support of this I shall articulate a set of questions that I think are often at issue when people ask about the meaningfulness of life. These questions give rise to a set of conditions that a fully adequate answer must satisfy. Among other things, these conditions explain why a familiar theological answer to the meaningfulness of life seems so attractive. However, they also create problems for this answer, as well as for an answer that has appeared attractive to a number of contemporary philosophers, that the meaning of life is created by the choices that people make and the desires that they have. I shall suggest that work in moral philosophy may provide an answer that falls between these two camps – that a moral life is a meaningful life. I shall sketch a theory of morality that satisfies the conditions that have been set out. H this sketch can be filled out, then a moral life will be at least part of what can make a life meaningful. Whether this account of the moral life leaves out anything important for the meaningfulness of life will be the subject of some concluding remarks.

359. Abs: Abs | Goog: Goog | GoogSchol: GS | DOI: 10.1016/0191-8869(87)90139-5 | Journal Impact Factor | Journal Metrics | Article Metrics
Title: Neuroticism, extraversion and meaning of life: A comparative study of criminals and non-criminals
Author(s): Addad, M.
Cites per Year: 0 Cites: 15 Year: 1987 Journal: Personality and Individual Differences J-Rnks 1-3: 2235 | 1.463 | 193
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360. Abs: Abs | Goog: Goog | GoogSchol: GS | DOI: 10.1016/j.langcom.2006.10.002 | Journal Impact Factor | Journal Metrics | Article Metrics
Title: The meaning of life: Regimes of textuality and memory in Japanese personal historiography
Author(s): Nozawa, S.
Cites per Year: 0 Cites: 7 Year: 2007 Journal: Language and Communication J-Rnks 1-3: 11965 | 0.423 | 49
Abstract Text: Not Available – Click on ABS link above.

361. Abs: Abs | Goog: Goog | GoogSchol: GS | DOI: 10.1177/1046878194254010 | Journal Impact Factor | Journal Metrics | Article Metrics
Title: How I Designed a Game-And Discovered the Meaning of Life
Author(s): Thiagarajan, S.
Cites per Year: 0 Cites: 12 Year: 1994 Journal: Simulation and Gaming J-Rnks 1-3: 10286 | 0.503 | 67
Abstract Text: Treating life as a game, the author conducts a midcourse debriefing of personal experiences related to the design and use of simulation and games and comes up with nine insights. These insights deal with design techniques, participant reactions, alternative approaches to learning, impact of experiential approaches, importance of debriefing, cross-cultural communication, and therapeutic insights.

362. Abs: Abs | Goog: Goog | GoogSchol: GS | DOI: 10.1017/S0034412500019041 | Journal Impact Factor | Journal Metrics | Article Metrics
Title: What does death have to do with the meaning of life?
Author(s): Levine, M.
Cites per Year: 0 Cites: 14 Year: 1987 Journal: Religious Studies J-Rnks 1-3: 9189 | 0.564 | 24
Abstract Text: Philosophers often distinguish in some way between two (or more) senses of lifes meaning. Paul Edwards terms these a ‘cosmic’ and ‘terrestrial’ sense. The cosmic sense is that of an overall purpose of which our lives are a part and in terms of which our lives must be understood and our purposes and interests arranged. This overall purpose is often identified with Gods divine scheme, but the two need not necessarily be equated. The terrestrial sense of meaning is the meaning people find (subjectively) in their own lives apart from the place of their lives in any ultimate end or context.

363. Abs: Abs | Goog: Goog | GoogSchol: GS | DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-0033.1995.tb01225.x | Journal Impact Factor | Journal Metrics | Article Metrics
Title: Exploring the meaning of life: the St Mungo Museum of Religious Life and Art
Author(s): O’Neill, M.
Cites per Year: 0 Cites: 11 Year: 1995 Journal: Museum International J-Rnks 1-3: 19514 | 0.194 | 19
Abstract Text: Scotlands newest museum has excited criticism, controversy and vigorous praise. By presenting a wide‐ranging overview of a number of the worlds major religions, it delivers an avowed and outspoken message for mutual understanding and respect.

364. Abs: Abs | Goog: Goog | GoogSchol: GS | DOI: 10.2478/disp-2005-0011 | Journal Impact Factor | Journal Metrics | Article Metrics
Title: Baier and Cottingham on the meaning of life
Author(s): Metz, T.
Cites per Year: 0 Cites: 7 Year: 2005 Journal: Disputatio J-Rnks 1-3: 21791 | 0.152 | 11
Abstract Text: Abstract I examine two recent books by analytic philosophers that address the underexplored topic of whether the meaning of life depends on the existence of a supernatural realm including God and a soul. John Cottingham’s On the Meaning of Life defends a supernaturalist conception of life’s meaning, whereas Kurt Baier’s Problems of Life and Death defends the opposite, naturalist perspective. I show that their respective arguments are worth serious consideration, indicate some potential weaknesses in them, and suggest some other argumentative strategies that those interested in this fascinating topic might pursue elsewhere in more depth.

365. Abs: Abs | Goog: Goog | GoogSchol: GS | DOI: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190063504.013.21 | Journal Impact Factor | Journal Metrics | Article Metrics
Title: Forgiveness and Meaning in Life
Author(s): Allais, Lucy
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Abstract Text: Abstract: The central aim of this chapter is to present the crucial role that forgiveness plays in one of the values most widely agreed on as central to meaning in life: relationships. The author argues that forgiveness is indispensable for relationships between flawed agents (all humans), and in particular that unconditional or gifted forgiveness can help individuals avoid the pitfalls of despair and leniency, both of which undermine growth. In addition, the author argues that through P. F. Strawson’s notion of the participant view, central to much writing on forgiveness, forgiveness provides a point of intersection between philosophical discussion of meaning in life and the meaning of life. Strawson’s participant view is an outlook from which individuals’ lives and relationships simply are recognized as meaningful, and which is not undermined by the idea that these same values do not show up in the objective view.

366. Abs: Abs | Goog: Goog | GoogSchol: GS | DOI: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190063504.013.28 | Journal Impact Factor | Journal Metrics | Article Metrics
Title: Gratitude and Meaning in Life
Author(s): Manela, Tony
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Abstract Text: Abstract: This chapter distinguishes two attitudes often referred to as ‘gratitude’—prepositional gratitude and appreciation—and it explores the ways that each of these attitudes influences meaning in life. It argues that prepositional gratitude, the fitting response to benevolence, enhances meaning in life by bolstering one’s sense of self-worth, motivating altruistic behaviour, fostering deep social relationships, and integrating individuals into communities. But it can also leave individuals burdened with commitments, in the form of debts of gratitude; and if one owes gratitude but fails to respond appropriately or fails to balance gratitude against other virtues, one risks the sort of immoral behaviour that could undermine meaningfulness in a life. Appreciation, like prepositional gratitude, can bring meaning to life in several ways. It can motivate meaningful projects, for instance, and connect individuals to value. But appreciating the wrong things, or appreciating the right things too little or too much, can undermine meaning in life as well.

367. Abs: Abs | Goog: Goog | GoogSchol: GS | DOI: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190063504.013.12 | Journal Impact Factor | Journal Metrics | Article Metrics
Title: Hard Determinism and Meaning in Life
Author(s): Pereboom, Derk
Cites per Year: 0 Cites: 1 Year: 2022 Journal: ‘ J-Rnks 1-3: 0 | |
Abstract Text: Abstract: This chapter begins by defending a sceptical view about free will, of which hard determinism is the main representative, by providing a schematic version of the author’s arguments against the leading positions that affirm free will. Compatibilism is challenged by the four-case manipulation argument, event-causal libertarianism by the disappearing agent argument, and agent-causal libertarianism by the argument from irreconcilability with the laws of nature. A significant objection to free will scepticism is that it cannot preserve the sense of meaning in life. Objections that focus on the sense of achievement and the possibility of meaningful personal relationships are addressed. Lastly, the rationality of hope for humanity, supposing the absence of free will, both on theistic and non-theistic grounds, is defended.

368. Abs: Abs | Goog: Goog | GoogSchol: GS | DOI: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190063504.013.11 | Journal Impact Factor | Journal Metrics | Article Metrics
Title: Personal Identity and Meaning in Life
Author(s): Schechtman, Marya
Cites per Year: 0 Cites: 1 Year: 2022 Journal: ‘ J-Rnks 1-3: 0 | |
Abstract Text: Abstract: This essay explores the connection between personal identity and meaning in life. It begins with a popular understanding of identity as defined by a core set of commitments and values and shows how this can be connected to an understanding of meaning as involving purposeful activity and direction. Next it considers an objection to this picture from the work of Galen Strawson. This serves as a springboard to the development of a more expansive picture of personal identity, intermediate between the strong unity found in ‘core-self’ views and the weak unity described by Strawson. It concludes with a discussion of how this intermediate view adds nuance to the dispute between Strawson and core-self views, as well as implying a different, more controversial, understanding of meaning.

369. Abs: Abs | Goog: Goog | GoogSchol: GS | DOI: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190063504.013.35 | Journal Impact Factor | Journal Metrics | Article Metrics
Title: Pessimism, Optimism, and Meaning in Life
Author(s): Benatar, David
Cites per Year: 0 Cites: 1 Year: 2022 Journal: ‘ J-Rnks 1-3: 0 | |
Abstract Text: Abstract: This chapter examines pessimistic and optimistic views about life’s meaning. To this end, it engages three broad questions. First, what is one asking when one asks whether life has meaning? Different possible questions are differentiated, and the relevant ones highlighted. Second, what constitutes optimism or pessimism about life’s meaning? Optimists and pessimists can disagree about whether life has a specified kind of meaning, or they can disagree about whether the presence or absence of such meaning is good or bad. Competing understandings of optimism and pessimism are discussed. Third, how optimistic or pessimistic should one be about life’s meaning? It is argued that while one should be optimistic that life has some meaning, one should be pessimistic about how much meaning life has. It would be better if individuals’ lives were much more meaningful than they actually are.

370. Abs: Abs | Goog: Goog | GoogSchol: GS | DOI: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190063504.013.38 | Journal Impact Factor | Journal Metrics | Article Metrics
Title: The Meaning of Life and Transcendence
Author(s): Cottingham, John
Cites per Year: 0 Cites: 1 Year: 2022 Journal: ‘ J-Rnks 1-3: 0 | |
Abstract Text: Abstract: Atheism and naturalism have become the default positions in academic philosophy, and this is reflected in much of the contemporary work on meaning in life, which assumes what might be called a broadly ‘immanentist’ perspective: the sources of meaning must be sought entirely within the sphere of our purely human pursuits and activities. This chapter, by contrast, lays stress on the yearning for transcendence that seems an ineradicable part of our nature. It is argued that no human life can be fully meaningful if it denies or suppresses that yearning, and that this in turn points to the need for humans to find a vehicle whereby they can enact their longing for an ultimate source of meaning and value that might bring fulfilment and completion to their lives.

371. Abs: Abs | Goog: Goog | GoogSchol: GS | DOI: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190063504.013.9 | Journal Impact Factor | Journal Metrics | Article Metrics
Title: The Relevance of Neuroscience to Meaning in Life
Author(s): Thagard, Paul
Cites per Year: 0 Cites: 1 Year: 2022 Journal: ‘ J-Rnks 1-3: 0 | |
Abstract Text: Abstract: One can distinguish three answers to the question of whether neuroscience is relevant to meaning in life. Neuro-neutral: Neuroscience is irrelevant to questions about meaning in life so it can be safely ignored. Neuro-negative: Neuroscience is relevant to meaning in life only as a warning about how meaning can be distorted or destroyed by excessive attention to scientific findings about the mind. Neuro-positive: Neuroscience has findings that contribute to philosophical understanding of meaning in life and to guiding people about how to have meaningful lives. This chapter defends the neuro-positive view after critiquing the two alternatives. It shows how neuroscience helps to answer questions about the meaning of meaningfulness, the characteristics of meaningful lives, the objectivity of life’s meaning, strategies for obtaining meaning, and changes in life’s meaning that occur with aging.

372. Abs: Abs | Goog: Goog | GoogSchol: GS | DOI: 10.4324/9781003228158-11 | Journal Impact Factor | Journal Metrics | Article Metrics
Title: Has life no meaning? Cultivating youth life meaning in schools
Author(s): Arslan, Gökmen and Yıldırım, Murat
Cites per Year: 0 Cites: 1 Year: 2022 Journal: ‘ J-Rnks 1-3: 0 | |
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373. Abs: Abs | Goog: Goog | GoogSchol: GS | DOI: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190063504.013.18 | Journal Impact Factor | Journal Metrics | Article Metrics
Title: Meaning and Morality
Author(s): May, Todd
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Abstract Text: Abstract: There are different views of what makes a life meaningful and, as a result, different views of the relationship of meaningfulness to morality. After a short discussion of subjective views of meaningfulness, this chapter turns toward Susan Wolf’s view that meaningfulness arises from the coincidence of subjective engagement and objective worthwhileness. It is suggested that one strong candidate for objective worthwhileness is narrative values, values that characterize the trajectory of a life. Examples of narrative values would be intensity, spontaneity, adventurousness, spirituality, and so on. Lives, or at least large segments of them, can be characterized thematically in terms of narrative values. On this view, the relationship between meaningfulness and morality is contingent: sometimes in conflict, other times not.

374. Abs: Abs | Goog: Goog | GoogSchol: GS | DOI: 10.2991/978-94-6463-096-1_9 | Journal Impact Factor | Journal Metrics | Article Metrics
Title: Relationship Between Four Needs of Meaning and Smartphone Usage
Author(s): Singh, Rajbala and Munderia, Rageshwari
Cites per Year: 0 Cites: 1 Year: 2022 Journal: ‘ J-Rnks 1-3: 0 | |
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375. Abs: Abs | Goog: Goog | GoogSchol: GS | DOI: 10.4159/9780674287471-008 | Journal Impact Factor | Journal Metrics | Article Metrics
Title: 7 Gratitude and Meaning
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376. Abs: Abs | Goog: Goog | GoogSchol: GS | DOI: 10.31649/sent41.03.75 | Journal Impact Factor | Journal Metrics | Article Metrics
Title: Pitfalls of anachronistic analysis: the book of Ecclesiastes, meaning of life and meaning in life
Author(s): Chukhrai, Elvira
Cites per Year: 0 Cites: 1 Year: 2022 Journal: Sententiae J-Rnks 1-3: 21220 | 0.162 | 3
Abstract Text: The article carries out a critical analysis of Arthur Kiefers methodology (described in the “Ecclesiastes and the meaning of life in the ancient world”, Cambridge University Press, 2022), namely his concept of “meaning of life” applied to the analysis of the book of Ecclesiastes. The core argument made here is that the “threefold conceptual scheme” of the meaning of life, borrowed from the field of empirical psychological research (coherence – purpose – significance), cannot be effective in the analysis of theological or philosophical texts, which involve a high level of generalization. On the other hand, since the concept of “meaning of life” is absent from the language of Ecclesiastes and other ancient texts, and its own meaning is extremely vague, it is unable to play the role of a useful analytical tool.

377. Abs: Abs | Goog: Goog | GoogSchol: GS | DOI: 10.1177/0306624X9503900205 | Journal Impact Factor | Journal Metrics | Article Metrics
Title: Meaning of Life as Perceived by Drug-Abusing People
Author(s): Wolf, Y.
Cites per Year: 0 Cites: 10 Year: 1995 Journal: International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology J-Rnks 1-3: 9077 | 0.570 | 69
Abstract Text: Two different methodologies, Crumbaugh & Maholics Purpose in Life Test and Andersons Functional Measurement, were used to compare the way meaning of life is perceived by two groups of substance-abusing people: one group consisted of 10 people who successfully completed a six-month withdrawal program based on Frankls Logotherapy; the other group included 15 people who dropped out at the beginning stages of the program. Most of the comparisons between these groups pointed to a more positive existential orientation (in logotherapeutic terms) among those who accomplished successful withdrawal than among the subjects who failed to complete the program. Therapeutic and methodological implications of this studys approach to the measurement of the perceptions of substance-abusing people are discussed.

378. Abs: Abs | Goog: Goog | GoogSchol: GS | DOI: 10.2190/X36M-F7XQ-PENB-RFBF | Journal Impact Factor | Journal Metrics | Article Metrics
Title: What is the meaning of life? Womens spirituality at the end of the life span
Author(s): Moremen, R.
Cites per Year: 0 Cites: 7 Year: 2004 Journal: Omega: Journal of Death and Dying J-Rnks 1-3: 10712 | 0.480 | 49
Abstract Text: Spiritual exploration often occurs after the loss of a significant other or with the impending death of oneself. Twenty-six older women were intensively interviewed; none had experienced a recent loss or terminal illness. Many wanted to understand their place in the order of things and were not looking to organized religion for answers. Dominant themes that emerged from the interviews included: a need to feel connected; spiritual questioning; existential angst; thoughts about death and dying; and, to a lesser degree, reliance on organized religion. Some older women—African Americans, Latinas, and women of lower socioeconomic status—turned to the Bible, prayer, and Church for answers to their questions, but most did not. These data suggest that spiritual questioning—independent of organized religion, significant loss, or impending death—is a natural part of the aging process as one approaches the end of the life span.

379. Abs: Abs | Goog: Goog | GoogSchol: GS | DOI: 10.4135/9781452233703.n12 | Journal Impact Factor | Journal Metrics | Article Metrics
Title: Religion and Meaning in Late Life
Author(s): McFadden, Susan H.
Cites per Year: 0 Cites: 8 Year: 2000 Journal: ‘ J-Rnks 1-3: 0 | |
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380. Abs: Abs | Goog: Goog | GoogSchol: GS | DOI: 10.1017/s1478951515000656 | Journal Impact Factor | Journal Metrics | Article Metrics
Title: Individual meaning in life assessed with the Schedule for Meaning in Life Evaluation: toward a circumplex meaning model
Author(s): Fegg, Martin .et al
Cites per Year: 0 Cites: 3 Year: 2015 Journal: Palliative and Supportive Care J-Rnks 1-3: 6818 | 0.724 | 56
Abstract Text: Objective:: The experience of “meaning in life” (MiL) is a major aspect of life satisfaction and psychological well-being. To assess this highly individual construct, idiographic measures with open-response formats have been developed. However, it can be challenging to categorize these individual experiences for interindividual comparisons. Our study aimed to derive MiL categories from individual listings and develop an integrative MiL model. Method:: University students were asked to rate 58 MiL providing aspects recently found in a nationwide study using the Schedule for Meaning in Life Evaluation (SMiLE), an MiL instrument allowing for open responses. Pearsons correlations and factor analyses were used to test the unidimensionality of subsequently derived higher-order MiL categories. Multidimensional scaling, cluster analysis, and factor analysis were performed to further analyze a latent MiL structure. Results:: A total of 340 students participated in the study. Some 11 unidimensional categories consisting of 34 meaning-providing aspects were summarized into a circumplex model with four MiL domains: leisure/health, work/finances, culture/spirituality, and relationships (family, partnership, social relations). Significance of results:: This model seems to incorporate a major portion of individual respondent-generated MiL listings. It may be useful for future idiographic MiL studies to help organize individual experiences of MiL and allow for higher-level interindividual comparisons. Further studies including different samples are necessary to confirm this model or derive other MiL domains, for example, in palliative care patients or patients who are confronted with a loss of meaning.

381. Abs: Abs | Goog: Goog | GoogSchol: GS | DOI: 10.3138/9781442675384 | Journal Impact Factor | Journal Metrics | Article Metrics
Title: Globalization and the Meaning of Canadian Life
Author(s): Watson, William
Cites per Year: 0 Cites: 8 Year: 1998 Journal: ‘ J-Rnks 1-3: 0 | |
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382. Abs: Abs | Goog: Goog | GoogSchol: GS | DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780195172348.003.0031 | Journal Impact Factor | Journal Metrics | Article Metrics
Title: The Meaning of Biodiversity and the Tree of Life
Author(s): Wilson, Edward O
Cites per Year: 0 Cites: 6 Year: 2004 Journal: ‘ J-Rnks 1-3: 0 | |
Abstract Text: Abstract: It seems very likely, in accordance with the belief of many anthropologists, that the first words to emerge during the evolution of human speech were used to specify people, plants, animals, and other objects, a roster that proliferated rapidly thereafter. That step, which presumably occurred sometime during the transition from Homo erectus to Homo sapiens a half million years ago, can rightfully be considered the earliest roots of science. Accuracy and repeatability were vital for the sake of survival, then as now. Getting things by their right names, as the Chinese say, is the first step to wisdom. And so it came to pass that the emergence of modern Western science included an effort to name the immense array of plant and animal species on Earth, and also to group them in a system that reflects their degree of similarity. That was an eighteenth-century achievement, culminating in the binomial nomenclatural system of the Swedish naturalist Carolus Linnaeus. Scientific taxonomy was followed by the notion of a genealogy of species, a nineteenth-century advance foreshadowed by the acceptance of evolution. In the twentieth century came the explanation of the process of species multiplication, one of the central achievements of the Modern Synthesis of evolutionary theory.

383. Abs: Abs | Goog: Goog | GoogSchol: GS | DOI: 10.4324/9781315385945-8 | Journal Impact Factor | Journal Metrics | Article Metrics
Title: Aristotle on the meaning of life
Author(s): Johnson, Monte Ransome
Cites per Year: 0 Cites: 2 Year: 2018 Journal: ‘ J-Rnks 1-3: 0 | |
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384. Abs: Abs | Goog: Goog | GoogSchol: GS | DOI: 10.4324/9781315385945-7 | Journal Impact Factor | Journal Metrics | Article Metrics
Title: Zhuangzi and the meaning of life
Author(s): Cooper, David E.
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385. Abs: Abs | Goog: Goog | GoogSchol: GS | DOI: 10.4324/9781315385945-1 | Journal Impact Factor | Journal Metrics | Article Metrics
Title: Confucius and the meaning of life
Author(s): Kim, Richard and Seachris, Joshua W.
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386. Abs: Abs | Goog: Goog | GoogSchol: GS | DOI: 10.2466/pr0.2003.92.3c.1119 | Journal Impact Factor | Journal Metrics | Article Metrics
Title: Aspects of meaning of life in different subcultures in Peru
Author(s): Baessler, J.
Cites per Year: 0 Cites: 6 Year: 2003 Journal: Psychological Reports J-Rnks 1-3: 7328 | 0.684 | 78
Abstract Text: The categorization system for perceptions of meaning of life developed by Ebersole, et al. was applied in four different Peruvian subsamples (middleupper-class university students, lower-class night students, slum dwellers who had emigrated from the South Andes and settled in the capital, and Highland Indians), totaling 168 participants. Analysis showed most answers could be satisfactorily fitted into the eight categories, although slight modifications had to be made and two more categories had to be created. For middleupper-class students, lower-class night students, and slum dwellers, Growth was the most important category followed by Relationships. In contrast, the major topic within the Indian sample of the South Andes was Relationships, whereas Growth turned out to be irrelevant. More educated subjects described meaning of life in a more abstract way than less educated subjects. The discrepancies between the subsamples suggest that individual concepts of meaning of life contain culture-specific as well as universal elements.

387. Abs: Abs | Goog: Goog | GoogSchol: GS | DOI: 10.1136/tc.7.2.107 | Journal Impact Factor | Journal Metrics | Article Metrics
Title: Smoking, branding, and the meaning of life.
Author(s): Hastings, G.
Cites per Year: 0 Cites: 7 Year: 1998 Journal: Tobacco Control J-Rnks 1-3: 1017 | 2.331 | 136
Abstract Text: Not Available – Click on ABS link above.

388. Abs: Abs | Goog: Goog | GoogSchol: GS | DOI: 10.5014/ajot.40.1.27 | Journal Impact Factor | Journal Metrics | Article Metrics
Title: Affective meanings of life review through activities and discussion.
Author(s): Froehlich, J.
Cites per Year: 0 Cites: 10 Year: 1986 Journal: American Journal of Occupational Therapy J-Rnks 1-3: 8209 | 0.623 | 92
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389. Abs: Abs | Goog: Goog | GoogSchol: GS | DOI: 10.1093/0198287976.003.0013 | Journal Impact Factor | Journal Metrics | Article Metrics
Title: Objectivity and Social Meaning
Author(s): Walzer, Michael
Cites per Year: 0 Cites: 8 Year: 1993 Journal: ‘ J-Rnks 1-3: 0 | |
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390. Abs: Abs | Goog: Goog | GoogSchol: GS | DOI: 10.1515/9783110324242.83 | Journal Impact Factor | Journal Metrics | Article Metrics
Title: Contingency and the Quest for Meaning
Author(s): Himmelmann, Beatrix
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391. Abs: Abs | Goog: Goog | GoogSchol: GS | DOI: 10.1007/978-94-007-6527-6_25 | Journal Impact Factor | Journal Metrics | Article Metrics
Title: Is Happiness a Moving Target? The Relationship Between Residential Mobility and Meaning in Life
Author(s): Eggleston, Casey and Oishi, Shigehiro
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392. Abs: Abs | Goog: Goog | GoogSchol: GS | DOI: 10.26686/wgtn.17007592 | Journal Impact Factor | Journal Metrics | Article Metrics
Title: Why Meaning Does in Fact Matter: An Exploration of Meaning in Life and its Impact on Well-Being
Author(s): Grouden, Melissa Emily
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Human beings are naturally inclined to search for, and achieve meaning in life as a means of understanding life events, and integrating them into a coherent whole. Although the experience of possessing meaning in life has been widely researched, the process of searching for meaning which is of utmost importance, has been largely neglected (Steger, 2009). These two constructs are argued to be related, yet distinct from one another, and they share a weak inverse relationship (e.g., Steger & Kashdan, 2006). However, searching for meaning does not appear to lead to the attainment of meaning as one might intuitively expect (Steger, Kashdan, Sullivan, & Lorentz, 2008). As research has tended to be cross-sectional, there is scope to explore how the relationship between these two constructs unfolds over time. Meaning in life appears to share a positive relationship with well-being such that happiness and life satisfaction are elevated, and depression reduced; however, search for meaning has been shown to have the opposite pattern of correlates (Park, Park, & Peterson, 2010). Given that searching for meaning is an instinctual human motivation, it is important that research investigate whether it does share positive relations with well-being under certain conditions, and whether these relationships are evidenced longitudinally too. Additionally research has considered whether certain personal qualities might be closely linked to both searching for, and having meaning in life (e.g., McAdams, 2012; Michael & Snyder, 2005; Steger et al., 2008). It is also valuable to investigate whether certain dispositional traits might facilitate productive search for meaning which leads to meaning attainment, and preclude the experience of improverished well-being while searching for meaning. Chapters Two to Five explored the relationship between search for meaning, presence of meaning, and well-being, and considered what influence dispositional traits might have on these processes. The sample used for these chapters comprised 543 community adults (15 to 81 years) who completed measures of presence of meaning, search for meaning, happiness, life satisfaction, depression, rumination, hope, and grit five times with three-month intervals. Generally, findings obtained from analyses confirmed that while searching for meaning is an essential human process, it does not appear to predict a gain in the presence of meaning. Additionally, variation in the two constructs at different times in the lifespan gives weight to a developmental perspective for understanding of the overall meaning process, incorporating both search for meaning and presence of meaning dynamically over time. The pattern of correlates between search for meaning, presence of meaning, and well-being outcomes was confirmed with longitudinal data, however the research showed that search for meaning exhibited stronger negative relationships with life satisfaction and happiness when individuals reported low presence. Furthermore, when life satisfaction was very high, searching predicted an increase in presence longitudinally, highlighting that under some conditions, search for meaning does not lead to impoverished well-being. Age-related results were obtained for the relationships between search for meaning and presence of meaning with various outcomes. In particular, presence of meaning predicted increased happiness and life satisfaction, and decreased depression over time for older adults, but not for younger adults; this result suggests that the beneficial impact of meaning on well-being only starts to unfold later in life. Additionally, for older adults reporting high presence of life, less depression and rumination were reported when searching for meaning. The results also showed that search for meaning and depression were more strongly positively related and rumination predicted increased search in younger individuals. Although as mentioned, searching for meaning has not been shown generally to actually lead to increased meaning in life, the present research demonstrated that this did occur for individuals with high grit: having tenacity, determination and passion for goals. Furthermore, hope and grit were both found to mitigate the negative well-being outcomes resultant from searching for meaning, thus making the search for meaning more fruitful, and less likely to harm one‘s well-being. While the first four chapters explored meaning on a general level, the degree to which individuals felt that they search for meaning in life, and the overall level of meaningfulness that they experienced, the subsequent two chapters elucidated the more specific sources of meaning in life. Research has examined what brings human beings a sense that their lives are meaningful, and these sources vary between individuals from relationships with others, to personal development, to social and political beliefs (O‘Connor & Chamberlain, 1996). Although there is quite some variation betw

393. Abs: Abs | Goog: Goog | GoogSchol: GS | DOI: 10.23749/mdl.v112i5.11408 | Journal Impact Factor | Journal Metrics | Article Metrics
Title: SMiLE to Life: Meaning in life in healthcare professionals working in palliative care and rehabilitation medicine
Author(s): Maffoni, Marina .et al
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Abstract Text: Background: In the healthcare landscape, various protective factors are identified, such as meaning in life (MiL), namely what gives sense to life events. However, little is known about this construct in the healthcare population. Objectives: To describe MiL among healthcare professionals employed in palliative care and neuro-rehabilitation medicine, unveiling possible differences related to medical specialty and socio-demographic characteristics. Methods: In this cross-sectional and multicentre study, palliative care and neuro-rehabilitation professionals were recruited. MiL was evaluated with the Schedule for Meaning in Life Evaluation (SMiLE), which provides a list of meaningful areas, as well as related overall indexes of satisfaction (IoS), weighting (IoW), weighted satisfaction (IoWS). Descriptive statistics, t-test, chi-square, linear and binary logistic regressions were performed. Results: Overall, 297healthcare professionals (palliative care=89, neuro-rehabilitation medicine=208, 47% of participants ≤ 40 years old) completed the evaluation. The sample was intra- and inter-groups heterogeneous, in particular concerning age and professional role. Conversely, no significant group differences emerged in MiL indexes comparisons, nor in the number of MiL listed areas. As for MiL areas, the category “family” increased the IoWS index, while terms related to “finances” contributed to decrease it. Comparing specialties, palliative care professionals were more likely to report areas like “partnership”, “social commitment”, and “satisfaction”. Nurses (n=116), nurse aides (n=47), and therapists (n=67) were more likely to mention health-related terms (e.g. health, physical wellbeing) than physicians and psychologists (n=65). Conclusion: This study highlighted MiL areas among professionals employed in palliative care and neurorehabilitation specialties, providing informative suggestions for tailored health prevention programs which should pay particular attention to social and family relationships, socio-economic status, and health.

394. Abs: Abs | Goog: Goog | GoogSchol: GS | DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9973.1987.tb00860.x | Journal Impact Factor | Journal Metrics | Article Metrics
Title: THE MEANING OF LIFE
Author(s): DAVIS, W.H.
Cites per Year: 0 Cites: 9 Year: 1987 Journal: Metaphilosophy J-Rnks 1-3: 14750 | 0.313 | 41
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395. Abs: Abs | Goog: Goog | GoogSchol: GS | DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9752.1991.tb00248.x | Journal Impact Factor | Journal Metrics | Article Metrics
Title: The Meaning of Life and Education
Author(s): ALLEN, R.
Cites per Year: 0 Cites: 8 Year: 1991 Journal: Journal of Philosophy of Education J-Rnks 1-3: 11055 | 0.463 | 45
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396. Abs: Abs | Goog: Goog | GoogSchol: GS | DOI: 10.1080/00455091.1984.10716398 | Journal Impact Factor | Journal Metrics | Article Metrics
Title: ‘The Meaning of Life’: A Qualitative Perspective
Author(s): Bennett, J.
Cites per Year: 0 Cites: 9 Year: 1984 Journal: Canadian Journal of Philosophy J-Rnks 1-3: 10421 | 0.494 | 33
Abstract Text: One trend in contemporary discussions of the topic, ‘the meaning of life.’ is to emphasize what might be termed its subjective dimension. That is, it is widely recognized that ‘the meaning of life’ is not something that simply could be presented to an individual, regardless of how heshe felt about it. Thus, for example, Karl Britton has written that we could imagine ‘a featureless god who set before men some goal and somehow drove them to pursue it; while this would constitute a purpose for human life, it would hardly be sufficient to render life meaningful. ‘The goal would seem arbitrary, senseless: and its pursuit burdensome, souldestroying.’ Similarly, R. W. Hepburn has stated that meaningfulness must indispensably involve value judgment. Any set of conditions presented to us, whether by God, nature, or our fellow humans, constitutes a fact about how the world is; what provides meaningfulness to our lives, on the other hand, must be something which we affirm – something we feel ought to be the case.

397. Abs: Abs | Goog: Goog | GoogSchol: GS | DOI: 10.1080/0360127970230208 | Journal Impact Factor | Journal Metrics | Article Metrics
Title: The meaning of life and older learners: Addressing the fundamental issue through critical thinking and teaching
Author(s): Courtenay, B.C.
Cites per Year: 0 Cites: 6 Year: 1997 Journal: Educational Gerontology J-Rnks 1-3: 11976 | 0.422 | 58
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398. Abs: Abs | Goog: Goog | GoogSchol: GS | DOI: 10.26613/esic.4.1.164 | Journal Impact Factor | Journal Metrics | Article Metrics
Title: I Understand the Meaning of Life—But what is the Meaning of “Meaning”?
Author(s): McAdams, Dan P.
Cites per Year: 0 Cites: 1 Year: 2020 Journal: Evolutionary Studies in Imaginative Culture J-Rnks 1-3: 15346 | 0.293 | 9
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399. Abs: Abs | Goog: Goog | GoogSchol: GS | DOI: 10.1017/S0031819100051111 | Journal Impact Factor | Journal Metrics | Article Metrics
Title: Tolstoy, Death and the Meaning of Life
Author(s): Perrett, R.W.
Cites per Year: 0 Cites: 8 Year: 1985 Journal: Philosophy J-Rnks 1-3: 14678 | 0.315 | 27
Abstract Text: Questions about the meaning of life have traditionally been regarded as being of particular concern to philosophers. It is sometimes complained that contemporary analytic philosophy fails to address such questions, but there do exist illuminating recent discussions of these questions by analytic philosophers.1Perhaps what lurks behind the complaint is a feeling that these discussions are insufficiently close to actual living situations and hence often seem rather thin and bland compared with the vivid portrayals of such situations in autobiography or fiction. I therefore want to focus on two works by Tolstoy—one autobiographical, one fictional—and try to see what philosophical lessons can be learned from them, particularly with regard to questions about the relation of death to the meaning of life.

400. Abs: Abs | Goog: Goog | GoogSchol: GS | DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/9780262513562.001.0001 | Journal Impact Factor | Journal Metrics | Article Metrics
Title: Meaning in Life
Author(s): Singer, Irving
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401. Abs: Abs | Goog: Goog | GoogSchol: GS | DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/9780262513586.001.0001 | Journal Impact Factor | Journal Metrics | Article Metrics
Title: Meaning in Life
Author(s): Singer, Irving
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402. Abs: Abs | Goog: Goog | GoogSchol: GS | DOI: 10.1117/12.949186 | Journal Impact Factor | Journal Metrics | Article Metrics
Title: Aberration theory and the meaning of life
Author(s): Shafer, D.
Cites per Year: 0 Cites: 7 Year: 1986 Journal: Proceedings of SPIE – The International Society for Optical Engineering J-Rnks 1-3: 20990 | 0.166 | 187
Abstract Text: Higher -order aberrations are due to intrinsic and induced components at each optical surface. This paper shows that the induced components are mainly due to pupil aberration, and are generally much more important than the intrinsic components.

403. Abs: Abs | Goog: Goog | GoogSchol: GS | DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780195133394.003.0005 | Journal Impact Factor | Journal Metrics | Article Metrics
Title: Social Sources of Meaning in Later Life
Author(s): Settersten, Richard A
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Abstract Text: Abstract: editors’ introduction Settersten approaches the issue of meaning in the Third Age by examining the extensive literature on the determinants of our values and our goals. There are, of course, many influences, but most important may be those we experience as we participate in our social worlds. We make sense to ourselves as we seek to make sense to others. We feel secure in our ability to make a difference as we witness our effectiveness. We also evaluate ourselves partly on the basis of others’ evaluations of us. We are likely to lose confidence in ourselves should we see ourselves being treated as marginal and irrelevant.

404. Abs: Abs | Goog: Goog | GoogSchol: GS | DOI: 10.4135/9781412956253.n469 | Journal Impact Factor | Journal Metrics | Article Metrics
Title: Search For Meaning in Life
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405. Abs: Abs | Goog: Goog | GoogSchol: GS | DOI: 10.4324/9780203762783 | Journal Impact Factor | Journal Metrics | Article Metrics
Title: Life Forms and Meaning Structure
Author(s): Schutz, Alfred
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406. Abs: Abs | Goog: Goog | GoogSchol: GS | DOI: 10.1515/9783110324242 | Journal Impact Factor | Journal Metrics | Article Metrics
Title: On Meaning in Life
Author(s): Himmelmann
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407. Abs: Abs | Goog: Goog | GoogSchol: GS | DOI: 10.1016/j.plrev.2011.04.003 | Journal Impact Factor | Journal Metrics | Article Metrics
Title: Music, meaning, and the brain
Author(s): Kreutz, Gunter
Cites per Year: 0 Cites: 2 Year: 2011 Journal: Physics of Life Reviews J-Rnks 1-3: 1508 | 1.848 | 71
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408. Abs: Abs | Goog: Goog | GoogSchol: GS | DOI: 10.4324/9781315385945-5 | Journal Impact Factor | Journal Metrics | Article Metrics
Title: Plato and the meaning of life
Author(s): Skrbina, David
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409. Abs: Abs | Goog: Goog | GoogSchol: GS | DOI: 10.4324/9781315385945-3 | Journal Impact Factor | Journal Metrics | Article Metrics
Title: Vyāsa and the meaning of life
Author(s): Chakrabarti, Arindam
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410. Abs: Abs | Goog: Goog | GoogSchol: GS | DOI: 10.4324/9781315385945-35 | Journal Impact Factor | Journal Metrics | Article Metrics
Title: Rorty and the meaning of life
Author(s): Malachowski, Alan
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411. Abs: Abs | Goog: Goog | GoogSchol: GS | DOI: 10.4324/9781315385945-33 | Journal Impact Factor | Journal Metrics | Article Metrics
Title: Murdoch and the meaning of life
Author(s): Clarke, Bridget
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412. Abs: Abs | Goog: Goog | GoogSchol: GS | DOI: 10.4324/9781315385945-22 | Journal Impact Factor | Journal Metrics | Article Metrics
Title: Marx and the meaning of life
Author(s): Wendling, Amy E.
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413. Abs: Abs | Goog: Goog | GoogSchol: GS | DOI: 10.4324/9781315385945-25 | Journal Impact Factor | Journal Metrics | Article Metrics
Title: Ortega and the meaning of life
Author(s): González, Pedro Blas
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414. Abs: Abs | Goog: Goog | GoogSchol: GS | DOI: 10.1037/0000083-013 | Journal Impact Factor | Journal Metrics | Article Metrics
Title: Measurement of meaning in life.
Author(s): Hill, Clara E.
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415. Abs: Abs | Goog: Goog | GoogSchol: GS | DOI: 10.4324/9781315385945-19 | Journal Impact Factor | Journal Metrics | Article Metrics
Title: Kant and the meaning of life
Author(s): Godlove, Terry F.
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416. Abs: Abs | Goog: Goog | GoogSchol: GS | DOI: 10.1037/0000083-006 | Journal Impact Factor | Journal Metrics | Article Metrics
Title: Existing psychotherapy theories about meaning in life.
Author(s): Hill, Clara E.
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417. Abs: Abs | Goog: Goog | GoogSchol: GS | DOI: 10.1037/0000083-004 | Journal Impact Factor | Journal Metrics | Article Metrics
Title: Development and nature of meaning in life.
Author(s): Hill, Clara E.
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418. Abs: Abs | Goog: Goog | GoogSchol: GS | DOI: 10.17265/2159-5313/2018.06.005 | Journal Impact Factor | Journal Metrics | Article Metrics
Title: The Fourth Meaning in Life: With a Discussion of What Viktor E. Frankl Calls Meaning
Author(s): Uemura, Kenjiro
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419. Abs: Abs | Goog: Goog | GoogSchol: GS | DOI: 10.1177/0040571X7507800302 | Journal Impact Factor | Journal Metrics | Article Metrics
Title: The Meaning of “Life” in the Gospels and Epistles of St John: A Study in the Story of Lazarus, John II: 1-44
Author(s): Moule, C.F.D.
Cites per Year: 0 Cites: 7 Year: 1975 Journal: Theology J-Rnks 1-3: 22372 | 0.144 | 9
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420. Abs: Abs | Goog: Goog | GoogSchol: GS | DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780195096965.003.0004 | Journal Impact Factor | Journal Metrics | Article Metrics
Title: Neuroscience, Agency, and the Meaning of Life
Author(s): Flanagan, Owen
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Abstract Text: Abstract: It seems as if I do things. It would undermine, possibly destroy, the meaning and significance of my life if I am not an agent, if who and what I am is in no way the result of choices I make. It matters that I am not just along on some ride that the cosmos, for some absurd reason, is taking. And yet if I am just an animal, if what I think and do is just the emergent product of what the world outside, my body and its brain jointly produce, then it is hard to see what sense there is to the ideas that I am an agent, that I am self-productive, and that I create or cocreate some of the meaning my life has. These are reasonable worries. But they are not rational.

421. Abs: Abs | Goog: Goog | GoogSchol: GS | DOI: 10.4324/9781315447247-4 | Journal Impact Factor | Journal Metrics | Article Metrics
Title: Existence, meaning, excellence
Author(s): Bielskis, Andrius
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422. Abs: Abs | Goog: Goog | GoogSchol: GS | DOI: 10.21193/kjspp.2017.31.1.004 | Journal Impact Factor | Journal Metrics | Article Metrics
Title: The relationship study on age difference between the search for meaning in life, the presence of meaning in life and satisfaction with life: The relationship between meaning level in life and satisfaction with life and the moderating effect of the se
Author(s): Kim, Sang Hee and Park, Sunghyun
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423. Abs: Abs | Goog: Goog | GoogSchol: GS | DOI: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199399314.013.21 | Journal Impact Factor | Journal Metrics | Article Metrics
Title: Hope and Meaning-in-Life
Author(s): Feldman, David .et al
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Freidrich Nietzsche famously said, “He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how,” a quote that pioneering existential psychiatrist Viktor Frankl cited often. This chapter argues that it is through the whys in people’s lives—their goals—that they establish a sense of meaning. The chapter makes both an empirical and a theoretical case that, linked by an emphasis on goals, hope and meaning in life are closely connected. It begins by defining the meaning-in-life construct, continues with a discussion of the empirical relationships between hope and meaning, and concludes with a theoretical exploration of hope in the context of existential philosophical systems.

424. Abs: Abs | Goog: Goog | GoogSchol: GS | DOI: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780195377767.013.29 | Journal Impact Factor | Journal Metrics | Article Metrics
Title: Broadening Cultural Sociologys Scope: Meaning-Making in Mundane Organizational Life
Author(s): Lo, Jade and Eliasoph, Nina
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This article proposes a more serious engagement between the fields of cultural sociology and organizational sociology by studying how culture shapes daily organizational life and how, in turn, everyday activity can build up to large-scale cultural change. It argues that people’s everyday methods of coordinating action in organizations, no matter how mundane, are meaningful. To support its arguments, the article examines transformations of words’ meanings in everyday language use by looking at three examples, one from a study of changes in the publishing industry and the other two from a larger study of youth civic engagement projects in the United States. It also discusses the concept of typification, structuralism in practice, border disputes within organizations, and Jeffrey C. Alexander’s notion of “performance” within organizations. Finally, it considers the use of cultural sociology to see how people in organizations coordinate action.

425. Abs: Abs | Goog: Goog | GoogSchol: GS | DOI: 10.21275/art20164377 | Journal Impact Factor | Journal Metrics | Article Metrics
Title: Impact of Meaning in Life on Psychological Well Being among Street Children
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426. Abs: Abs | Goog: Goog | GoogSchol: GS | DOI: 10.1037/10520-067 | Journal Impact Factor | Journal Metrics | Article Metrics
Title: Meaning of life.
Author(s): Ryff, Carol
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Abstract Text: Mead entered Oberlins Preparatory Department in 1876 and Oberlin College in 1879, graduating from the latter in 1883. After a series of makeshift jobs, he experienced a depression that lasted for many years. Mead entered Harvard University in 1887 where he studied with Josiah Royce, the Christian Neo-Hegelian philosopher. Mead switched from a philosophy major to physiological psychology before finishing his degree and going to study in Germany.Mead studied first in Leipzig, Germany, under Wilhelm Wundt, the physiological and theoretical psychologist, in the winter of 1888-1889. He transferred after one semester to the University of Berlin where he studied under the psychologists Wilhelm Dilthey, Hermann Ebbinghaus, and Friedrich Paulsen, and the socialist Gustav Schmoller. Mead was offered a position in late 1891 to teach philosophy at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. He accepted the post and left Berlin without completing his doctorate.Meads long depression was resolved finally through his marriage to Helen Castle in 1891 and his new life in Ann Arbor. He was swept into the intellectual life of this department, especially with the professional and personal relationship he established with John Dewey. In 1894, Dewey was offered the chair of the department of philosophy and psychology at the University of Chicago and he argued strongly and successfully that Mead should be hired too.Mead lived within a vibrant world of friends, family, students, colleagues, community activists, and civic ties in Chicago, which became his home for the rest of his life. This complex and exciting group inspired his life and ideas, including his seminal social philosophy based on social interaction and community.Mead and Dewey established a school of thought named Chicago pragmatism by William James, another psychological pragmatist. This approach, emphasizing process and interpersonal relations, provided a naturalistic and evolutionary interpretation of intellectual activity as problem-oriented and based on scientific methods. It stressed the democratic reconstruction of society through education and other institutions.Meads work focused on the genesis of the self and other. He proposed that society and the self were mutually dependent and dynamic. This social process generates the mind, consciousness, intelligence, and the ability to take the role of the other. This distinctive social psychology is called symbolic interactionism. Mead was also concerned about woman suffrage, access to higher education, and civil rights. He was a friend of and colleague to a number of notable women, including Jane Addams, founder of Hull House. Their

427. Abs: Abs | Goog: Goog | GoogSchol: GS | DOI: 10.24204/ejpr.v8i2.54 | Journal Impact Factor | Journal Metrics | Article Metrics
Title: The Meaning of Meaning: Comments on Metzs Meaning in Life
Author(s): Goldschmidt, Tyron
Cites per Year: 0 Cites: 1 Year: 2016 Journal: European Journal for Philosophy of Religion J-Rnks 1-3: 19379 | 0.196 | 12
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428. Abs: Abs | Goog: Goog | GoogSchol: GS | DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199685516.003.0009 | Journal Impact Factor | Journal Metrics | Article Metrics
Title: Personal Relationships and Meaning in Life
Author(s): Pereboom, Derk
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429. Abs: Abs | Goog: Goog | GoogSchol: GS | DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(00)87829-0 | Journal Impact Factor | Journal Metrics | Article Metrics
Title: THE MEANING OF LIFE.
Author(s): Adler, A.
Cites per Year: 0 Cites: 8 Year: 1931 Journal: Lancet J-Rnks 1-3: 0 | 31 | 14.607
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430. Abs: Abs | Goog: Goog | GoogSchol: GS | DOI: 10.1515/9783110324242.113 | Journal Impact Factor | Journal Metrics | Article Metrics
Title: Meaning of Life: Peter Wessel Zapffe on the Human Condition
Author(s): Fremstedal, Roe
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Abstract Text: The present text deals with the question of the meaning of life in the existentialist theory of the Norwegian philosopher Peter Wessel Zapffe . In his book On the Tragic (1941), Zapffe sketched a theory of the human condition where the meaning of life plays a decisive role together with the human need for justice. This paper aims to reconstruct the central elements of Zapffes analysis and to discuss them critically by focusing on his claim that human beings need a fundamental meaning of life as a whole that transcends meaning in life. I pay particular attention to Zapffes claim that life is meaningless, since the meaning of life is fundamentally lacking. I conclude that Zapffes analysis is problematic for reasons both internal and external to his theory. General Introduction to Zapffe: The Norwegian ContextPeter Wessel Zapffe was a Norwegian philosopher, writer, environmentalist, mountaineer, literary critic, and humorist who was born in the arctic city of Tromsø. In the first part of the interwar period , Zapffe studied law at the University of Oslo and started pursuing mountaineering as a hobby. After having worked as a jurist in the late 1920s in Tromsø, Zapffe resumed his studies in Oslo in 1929. He originally planned to take a Magisters degree in literature, but his dissertation became a doctoral dissertation in philosophy. The 1941 PhD dissertation On the Tragic (Om det tragiske ) established Zapffe as one of the most original Norwegian philosophers of the twentieth century. 1 Rather than following an established school like most other Norwegian philosophers, Zapffe constructed his own brand of pessimistic existentialism influenced by the biology of Jakob Johann von Uexküll (1864-1944), the philosophies of Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860), 1 Zapffe 1941 and 1996. The 1996 edition from Samlede verker (Collected Works ) utilizes the pagination of the first edition (1941), except for the three added prefaces and the brief English summary (pp. 619-622). The 1933 essay The Last Messiah [Den sidste Messias] has also been important in establishing Zapffe as a philosopher, although this essay is a literary work that is less argumentative than On the Tragic (see Zapffe 2004 and 1997, pp. 43-51).

431. Abs: Abs | Goog: Goog | GoogSchol: GS | DOI: 10.1515/9783110324242.45 | Journal Impact Factor | Journal Metrics | Article Metrics
Title: Individual, Society, and Teleology: An Aristotelian Conception of Meaning in Life
Author(s): Fossheim, Hallvard J.
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432. Abs: Abs | Goog: Goog | GoogSchol: GS | DOI: 10.4324/9780203146286-37 | Journal Impact Factor | Journal Metrics | Article Metrics
Title: e Human Heart or Recovering the Meaning of Life: A eory Integrating Sexuality, Meaning of Life, and Sense of Coherence Applied in Holistic erapy
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433. Abs: Abs | Goog: Goog | GoogSchol: GS | DOI: 10.1007/978-94-007-6527-6_29 | Journal Impact Factor | Journal Metrics | Article Metrics
Title: Life, Drugs, and the Making of Meaning
Author(s): Leo, Joseph De and Earleywine, Mitch
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434. Abs: Abs | Goog: Goog | GoogSchol: GS | DOI: 10.1007/978-94-007-6527-6_16 | Journal Impact Factor | Journal Metrics | Article Metrics
Title: “But Wait, It Gets Even Weirder…”: The Meaning of Stories
Author(s): McLean, Kate C. and Morrison-Cohen, Sarah
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435. Abs: Abs | Goog: Goog | GoogSchol: GS | DOI: 10.4135/9781452233703.n14 | Journal Impact Factor | Journal Metrics | Article Metrics
Title: Existential Meaning: Reflections and Directions
Author(s): Reker, Gary T. and Chamberlain, Kerry
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436. Abs: Abs | Goog: Goog | GoogSchol: GS | DOI: 10.1080/14484528.2012.643213 | Journal Impact Factor | Journal Metrics | Article Metrics
Title: Meaning Motifs in Young Australians’ Future Life Stories
Author(s): Bulbeck, Chilla
Cites per Year: 0 Cites: 1 Year: 2012 Journal: Life Writing J-Rnks 1-3: 17659 | 0.231 | 12
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437. Abs: Abs | Goog: Goog | GoogSchol: GS | DOI: 10.1016/j.plrev.2011.05.004 | Journal Impact Factor | Journal Metrics | Article Metrics
Title: Multiple varieties of musical meaning
Author(s): Fitch, W. Tecumseh and Gingras, Bruno
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438. Abs: Abs | Goog: Goog | GoogSchol: GS | DOI: 10.1016/j.plrev.2011.05.005 | Journal Impact Factor | Journal Metrics | Article Metrics
Title: Questioning the distinction between intra- and extra-musical meaning
Author(s): Davies, Stephen
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439. Abs: Abs | Goog: Goog | GoogSchol: GS | DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199547395.003.0001 | Journal Impact Factor | Journal Metrics | Article Metrics
Title: An Introduction to the Meaning of Life
Author(s): Wicks, Elizabeth
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440. Abs: Abs | Goog: Goog | GoogSchol: GS | DOI: 10.1017/cbo9781139194679.010 | Journal Impact Factor | Journal Metrics | Article Metrics
Title: Considerable life extension and the meaning of life
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441. Abs: Abs | Goog: Goog | GoogSchol: GS | DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/9780262513579.001.0001 | Journal Impact Factor | Journal Metrics | Article Metrics
Title: Meaning in Life
Author(s): Singer, Irving
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442. Abs: Abs | Goog: Goog | GoogSchol: GS | DOI: 10.1037/t03408-000 | Journal Impact Factor | Journal Metrics | Article Metrics
Title: Sources of Meaning and Meaning in Life Questionnaire
Author(s): Schnell, Tatjana and Becker, P.
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443. Abs: Abs | Goog: Goog | GoogSchol: GS | DOI: 10.1037/e401002008-003 | Journal Impact Factor | Journal Metrics | Article Metrics
Title: This has meaning in my life because
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444. Abs: Abs | Goog: Goog | GoogSchol: GS | DOI: 10.1016/b978-012670960-5/50002-9 | Journal Impact Factor | Journal Metrics | Article Metrics
Title: The Meaning of Life
Author(s): Stick, Robert V.
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445. Abs: Abs | Goog: Goog | GoogSchol: GS | DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780195133394.003.0004 | Journal Impact Factor | Journal Metrics | Article Metrics
Title: The Changing Meaning of Aging
Author(s): Moody, Harry R
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Abstract Text: Abstract: editors’ introduction Moody explores the meaning that is attributed to aging by the people who speak for our society. Drawing on best-seller lists of popular and professional books, Moody reviews for us the changing opinions of the postwar years. In the years immediately following World War II, when the focus of the nation was on a return to normalcy, the aged were seen as a group vulnerable to disability and as a social problem. But then the historical situation changed. In the late sixties and early seventies the institutions of the society came into question. It was a time of, in Moody’s terms, public pessimism and private optimism. Community became less important than self-realization. In the public mind the aged were an interest group whose claims were competitive with the claims of other interest groups, including children. But then, in another shift, selfrealization came to be defined in less material terms.

446. Abs: Abs | Goog: Goog | GoogSchol: GS | DOI: 10.3138/uram.17.1.33 | Journal Impact Factor | Journal Metrics | Article Metrics
Title: God as the Ultimate Thou and Meaning of Life in Martin Buber
Author(s): Kovacs, George
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447. Abs: Abs | Goog: Goog | GoogSchol: GS | DOI: 10.1017/9781009616072 | Journal Impact Factor | Journal Metrics | Article Metrics
Title: Kierkegaard, Socrates, and the Meaning of Life
Author(s): Furtak, Rick Anthony
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Abstract Text: Kierkegaards lifelong fascination with the figure of Socrates has many aspects, but prominent among them is his admiration for the way Socrates was devoted to his divinely ordained mission as a philosopher. To have such a destiny, revealed through what one loves and is passionate about as well as through a feeling of vocation, is a necessary condition of leading a meaningful life, according to Kierkegaard. Examining what Kierkegaard has to say about the meaning of life requires looking at his conception of subjective truth, as well as how he understands the ancient ideal of amor fati, a notion that Nietzsche would subsequently take up, but that Kierkegaard understands in a manner that is distinctly his own, and that he sought to put into practice in his own existence. Our life is a work of art, but we are not the artist.

448. Abs: Abs | Goog: Goog | GoogSchol: GS | DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-80362-8 | Journal Impact Factor | Journal Metrics | Article Metrics
Title: Meaning in Life
Author(s): Hauskeller, Michael
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