Measuring Meaning in Life

By Jessica Morgan, Tom Farsides. 2009

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Subfields: Applied Psychology, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Social Psychology

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Human Capital Sustainability Leadership to Promote Sustainable Development and Healthy Organizations: A New Scale (2018, background): “The positive and statistically significant correlations of the Italian version of the FS with the Meaningful Life Measure [36], the Authenticity Scale [37], the Satisfaction with Life Scale [38], the Positive Affect (PA) of the Positive Affect and Negative Affect Scale (PANAS) [39] and the inverse w”
The three meanings of meaning in life: Distinguishing coherence, purpose, and significance (2016, unknown): “Empirically, the distinctiveness of purpose in life and significance in life is demonstrated by Morgan and Farsides (2009a, 2009b).”
Assessing meaning and meaning making in the context of stressful life events: Measurement tools and approaches (2013, background): “Morgan and Farsides (2009) examined the factor structure of three of the popular meaning measures, the Life Regard Index-Revised (Debats, 1998), the Purpose in Life Test (Crumbaugh & Maholick, 1964), and the Purpose subscale of the Psychological Well-Being Scales (Ryff, 1989), and developed a…”
Meaning in Nature: Meaning in Life as a Mediator of the Relationship Between Nature Connectedness and Well-Being (2013, methodology): “Morgan and Farsides’ (2009) Meaningful Life Measure consists of 23 items (e.g., ‘‘The beliefs I hold about the world enable me to make sense out of my existence’’) rated on a scale with endpoints 1 = strongly agree and 7 = strongly disagree.”
The scales of general well-being (SGWB) (2017, methodology): “Significance was measured with an adapted version1 of the valued life subscale of the meaningful life measure (Morgan & Farsides, 2009) and the meaning in life scale (Huppert & So, 2013).”
Does meaning‐making help during organizational change? Development and validation of a new scale (2009, background): “, 2006) and the Meaningful life Measure (Morgan and Farsides, 2007).”
Meaning in Life as Comprehension, Purpose, and Mattering: Toward Integration and New Research Questions (2016, background): “Another multidimensional measure, the Meaningful Life Measure (Morgan & Farsides, 2009), similarly has subscales that roughly correspond with the tripartite subconstructs.”
The Purpose in Life Test-Short Form: Development and Psychometric Support (2011, methodology): “Using AMOS 6 software, maximum likelihood estimation, and eight different fit indices, the data were supportive of the two-factor model of Morgan and Farsides (2009).”
Meaningfulness as Satisfaction of Autonomy, Competence, Relatedness, and Beneficence: Comparing the Four Satisfactions and Positive Affect as Predictors of Meaning in Life (2018, methodology): “Second, a scale assessing purpose in life was developed specifically for present study, partially using items from Morgan and Farsides (2009) and Sheldon et al. (2001).”
Are meaning and purpose distinct? An examination of correlates and predictors (2013, background): “Morgan and Farsides (2009) factor analytically derived a multidimensional measure of meaning that consists of five dimensions, only one of which they refer to as purpose.”
The Eudaimonic and Hedonic Components of Happiness: Qualitative and Quantitative Findings (2011, background): “In particular, the increasing literature on meaning and the instruments developed to assess it have investigated the relationship of meaning with happiness, purpose in life, goal pursuit and achievement, and development of personal potentials (Chamberlain and Zika 1988; Linley et al. 2009; Morgan an”
An Exploratory Study of Religiosity, Meaning in Life and Subjective Wellbeing in Muslim Students from Algeria (2009, background): “A link has already been established between the two (Dufton and Perlman 1986; Morgan and Fastides 2009a, b). Morgan and Fastides (2009a, b) stress that religion may foster meaning through many mediators, by focusing individuals’ attentions on meaning-inducing activities such as positive relationsh”
Theoretical Perspectives Guiding QOL Indicator Projects (2011, background): “More recently, Schulenberg and Melton (2010) have provided some evidence of construct validity in relation to the Purpose-in-Life (PIL) measure (Chamberlain and Zika 1988; Dyck 1987; Hicks and King 2007; Melton and Schulenberg 2008; Morgan and Farsides 2009).”