Meaning in life and seeing the big picture: Positive affect and global focus

By Joshua A. Hicks, L. King. 2007

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Subfields: Applied Psychology, Social Psychology

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Music practice and participation for psychological well-being: A review of how music influences positive emotion, engagement, relationships, meaning, and accomplishment (2015, background): “…(see also Aristotle, 2011; Baumeister & Leary, 1995; Berridge & Kringelbach, 2011; Bornstein et al., 2003; Cooper, 1977a, 1977b; Cove et al., 2005; Hicks & King, 2007, 2009; National Crime Prevention, 1999; Noble & McGrath, 2012; Prilleltensky & Prilleltensky, 2006; Roffey, 2012; Seligman, 2010,…”
A Meaningful Life is a Healthy Life: A Conceptual Model Linking Meaning and Meaning Salience to Health (2018, background): “Some efforts have been made to experimentally influence meaning in life through manipulations of positive affect (Hicks & King, 2007, 2008, 2009; King et al., 2006).”
Entrepreneurs' dispositional positive affect: The potential benefits – and potential costs – of being “up” (2012, background): “…detrimental influence on perception of high levels of dispositional positive affect is related to its tendency to broaden individuals' range of attention, so that they notice more (i.e., a wider array of information) in a given situation than would otherwise be the case (Hicks and King, 2007).”
A Confirmatory Factor-Analytic Evaluation of the Purpose in Life Test: Preliminary Psychometric Support for a Replicable Two-Factor Model (2010, background): “King, Joshua Hicks, and colleagues have utilized McGregor and Little’s three-item meaning factor (items 3, 17, and 20), coupled with item 4 (personal existence being meaningful), in a series of studies relating to positive affect and meaning in relation to each other, as well as with other construct”
Theoretical Perspectives Guiding QOL Indicator Projects (2011, background): “Examples of QOL measures based on the concept of purpose and meaning in life include Palomar (1997) that asks questions such as ‘‘How do you feel about your sense of purpose in life?’’ More recently, Schulenberg and Melton (2010) have provided some evidence of construct validity in relation to the P”
Reconsidering happiness: the costs of distinguishing between hedonics and eudaimonia (2008, unknown): “Finally, King and colleagues (2006) found that feeling positive affect predisposed individuals to reporting more meaning in life (see also Hicks & King, 2007) and made them more sensitive to meaning in situations.”
Positive mood and social relatedness as information about meaning in life (2009, methodology): “Nevertheless, it is notable that unlike other tested moderators (Hicks & King, 2007, 2008), naturally occurring relatedness did not emerge as a moderator of the relationship between PA and meaning in life (Study 1).”
The unbearable lightness of meaning: Well-being and unstable meaning in life (2013, background): “…to well-being (King et al., 2006; Steger & Frazier, 2005; Steger et al., 2006), and in laboratory settings, people appear to engage in a variety of compensatory strategies to maintain stable levels of meaning (Hicks & King, 2007; Hicks, Schlegel, & King, 2010; for review, see Heine et al., 2006).”