The Meaning in Life Questionnaire: Assessing the Presence of and Search for Meaning in Life

By M. Steger, P. Frazier, S. Oishi, M. Kaler. 2006

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Subfields: Applied Psychology, Clinical Psychology, Social Psychology

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The Role of Purposeful Work Goals in Promoting Meaning in Life and in Schoolwork During Adolescence (2009, background): “Sense of Purpose and Presence of Meaning are thought to be related but distinct (see Steger et al., 2006), and they were moderately correlated in our sample (r = .35, p .001).”
Student Perceptions of Teacher Support and Competencies for Fostering Youth Purpose and Positive Youth Development: Perspectives From Two Countries (2014, methodology): “This measure has been previously used to operationalize purpose identification (Bundick, 2011), and has shown strong psychometric properties including good convergent and discriminant validity (Steger et al., 2006).”
Applied Psychometrics: The Steps of Scale Development and Standardization Process (2018, methodology): “In most cases a common practice in test development involves a combination either of confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) and IRT (Irwing & Hughes, 2018) or more commonly a combination of EFA and CFA (Steger et al., 2006; Fabrigar & Wegener, 2012; Kyriazos, 2018a).”
Links Between Parents’ and Children’s Levels of Gratitude, Life Satisfaction, and Hope (2013, background): “Steger et al. (2007) hypothesized that nearly 80% variation should be expected among individuals who share 50% genetics, as well as environment. Thus, the current study appears to validate Steger et al.’s (2007) findings in regard to mother and child gratitude.”
Experiencing meaning in life: Optimal functioning at the nexus of well-being, psychopathology, and spirituality. (2012, background): “self-esteem in American (Ryff, 1989; Steger, 2006; Steger et al., 2006) and Dutch samples (Debats, 1996), self-acceptance (Garfield, 1973; Ryff, 1989; Steger, Kashdan, Sullivan, et al.”
The Satisfaction With Life Scale and the emerging construct of life satisfaction (2008, background): “Examples of test–retest reliability include coefficients of 0.84 (Pavot, Diener, Colvin, & Sandvik, 1991) and 0.80 (Steger et al., 2006) for a 1-month interval, and 0.54 over a 4-year span (Magnus, Diener, Fujita, & Pavot, 1993).”
Mental Health and/or Mental Illness: A Scoping Review of the Evidence and Implications of the Dual-Continua Model of Mental Health (2020, background): “…encompassing individual resources such as life satisfaction (Diener, 1984), positive emotions (Fredrickson, 2001), meaning and purpose in life (Steger et al., 2006), resilience (Bonanno, 2004), character strengths (Peterson and Seligman, 2004), and interpersonal relationships (Reis and Gable,…”
Measuring Lay Conceptions of Well-Being: The Beliefs About Well-Being Scale (2011, methodology): “Finally, the Meaning in Life Questionnaire-Presence Subscale (MLQ; Steger et al. 2006) was used to measure the degree to which participants felt the presence of purpose and meaning in their lives (e.g., ‘I have a good sense of what makes my life meaningful’).”
The three meanings of meaning in life: Distinguishing coherence, purpose, and significance (2016, neutral): “…the editors state that ‘all accounts of meaning converge at sense making’, which is about ‘the ways that we make sense of ourselves and our environment’ (Proulx, Markman, & Lindberg, 2013, p. 4; for other analyses of a consensual definition of meaning, see also Steger, 2009; Steger et al., 2006).”
Prayer and Subjective Well-Being: An Examination of Six Different Types of Prayer (2010, neutral): “The Meaning in Life Questionnaire ( Steger, Frazier, Oishi, & Kaler, 2006 ), 10 items scored on a Likert scale with values ranging from 1 to 7.”
Meaningful Work as a Moderator of the Relation Between Work Stress and Meaning in Life (2016, methodology): “The 10-item Meaning in Life Questionnaire (MLQ; Steger et al., 2006) was used to assess participants’ current level of life meaning and search for life meaning.”
Is a life without meaning satisfying? The moderating role of the search for meaning in satisfaction with life judgments (2011, methodology): “As in previous work (Steger et al., 2006), the presence and search scales were largely independent.”
Calling and Vocation at Work (2009, background): “Although relatively little empirical research has directly targeted purpose or meaningfulness in the work domain, more than 40 years of research suggests that the overall presence of meaning in life promotes (and may be a hallmark of) psychological health and well-being (Steger et al., 2006).”