Meaning in Life and Posttraumatic Growth

By P. Alex Linley, S. Joseph. 2011

170 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Applied Psychology, Clinical Psychology

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/08a58443f44842875fb0c2fb1e96e32399809505

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In Applied Psychology

1. B. Larner
2. M. Schippers
3. A. Blow

In Clinical Psychology

1. B. Larner
2. Niklas Ziegler
3. M. Schippers
4. A. Blow

Citations in the corpus

• From Shattered Goals to Meaning in Life: Life Crafting in Times of the COVID-19 Pandemic (2020, background): “Relatedly, while the presence of meaning in life is associated with positive outcomes, the actual (prolonged) search for meaning is associated with greater negative outcomes, and such a search could be indicative of meaninglessness (Updegraff et al., 2008; Linley and Joseph, 2011).”
• A Model of Meaning-Making Coping and Growth in Combat Veterans (2011, background): “Recently, Linley and Joseph (2011) found that the presence of meaning in life (an aspect of global meaning) was associated with greater PTG but that the search for meaning was associated with greater negative change.”