Making sense of the meaning literature: an integrative review of meaning making and its effects on adjustment to stressful life events.

By Crystal L. Park. Psychological bulletin, 2010

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Subfields: Clinical Psychology, General Health Professions, Social Psychology

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When consequence size predicts belief in conspiracy theories: The moderating role of perspective taking (2014, background): “…was based on the notion that taking the perspective of a group that is threatened by a harmful and consequential event connects the self with the group, and as a consequence, makes people personally worried about the event (e.g., Batson et al., 2007; Loewenstein & Small, 2007; Park, 2010).”
Meaning in life and adjustment to daily stressors (2017, background): “When encountering stressful life events, people often ask ‘Why did this happen to me?’ The attempt to find meaning amid highly stressful life events is common among human beings (Frankl, 1963; King & Hicks, 2009; Park, 2010).”
Getting a Life Takes Time: The Development of the Life Story in Adolescence, Its Precursors and Consequences (2015, background): “Interpreting and integrating disruptive life events is potentially beneficial for wellbeing [Pals, 2006; Park, 2010].”
Malleability, plasticity, and individuality: How children learn and develop in context1 (2019, background): “…and problem solving (e.g., Losel & Farrington, 2012); self-regulation and executive function (e.g., Zelazo & Carlson, 2012); meaning making (Frankl, 1959; McLean & Pratt, 2006; Park, 2010); and positive perspectives on the self and future (e.g., Kirschman, Johnson, Bender, & Roberts, 2009).”
Individual differences in meaning-making: Considering the variety of sources of meaning, their density and diversity (2011, positive): “Research on meaning in life is expanding, enhancing conceptual differentiation (King & Hicks, 2009; Schnell, 2009b, 2010; Steger, Kashdan, Sullivan, & Lorentz, 2008) and applicability (Krause, 2007; Mascaro & Rosen, 2005; Park, 2010).”
The AFFIRM open pilot feasibility study: A brief affirmative cognitive behavioral coping skills group intervention for sexual and gender minority youth. (2016, background): “This perception (or cognitive appraisal) is an important factor in coping or not coping with stressful events (Folkman, 2007; Park, 2010), because appraisals enable emotional regulation of responses (Steptoe & Voegele, 1986).”
Meaning in Life as Comprehension, Purpose, and Mattering: Toward Integration and New Research Questions (2016, background): “Meaning-making models of adjustment (see Park, 2010, for a review) converge on the idea that individuals have meaning frameworks in place that enable them to make sense of and understand their experiences.”
Understanding Concealable Stigmatized Identities: The Role of Identity in Psychological, Physical, and Behavioral Outcomes (2011, background): “Instead, they are likely to search for ways to make positive meaning out of the negative label or experience (Park, 2010).”
Toward an evolutionary social neuroscience of religion (2011, background): “…directly from the seminal research on cognitive dissonance theory (Festinger, 1957; Harmon-Jones & Harmon-Jones, 2008) that has inspired the multiple and related ways that people have defined meaning in the field (Baumeister, 1991; Silberman, 2005; Park, 2010; Taves & Paloutzian, this article).”
The Five “A”s of Meaning Maintenance: Finding Meaning in the Theories of Sense-Making (2012, background): “However, another term that often arises in the meaning literature is “meaning making” (e.g., Park, 2010), which would suggest the wholesale assembly of meaning frameworks in response to a given violation—in a sense, creating a new way to make our experiences feel familiar.”
Moral injury among Child Protection Professionals: Implications for the ethical treatment and retention of workers (2017, background): “Moral injury also may be alleviated by acceptance, forgiveness, and a recommitment to personal values (Nieuwsma et al., 2015; Park, 2010).”
Sensemaking and emotion in organizations (2013, background): “Finally, prior research in the therapeutic (Greenberg & Pascual-Leone, 2001) and meaning making (Park, 2010) literatures has demonstrated the important role played by emotion in achieving cognitive closure following personal crises.”
The unbearable lightness of meaning: Well-being and unstable meaning in life (2013, background): “Research on adverse life events also suggests that experiences that violate people’s beliefs and comprehension of the world, or their goals and purposes generate psychological distress and efforts to restore meaning (Park, 2010; Steger & Park, 2012).”