Individual differences in meaning-making: Considering the variety of sources of meaning, their density and diversity

By T. Schnell. 2011

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What Predicts Positive Life Events that Influence the Course of Depression? A Longitudinal Examination of Gratitude and Meaning in Life (2017, background): “Other than religion or spirituality, some of the most common sources of meaning in life are pleasure, intimacy, achievement, and health (Schnell 2011).”
The resilience portfolio model: Understanding healthy adaptation in victims of violence. (2015, background): “We propose that it is the number and variety—what Schnell (2011) has called the “density and diversity”—of these characteristics that is most critical for resilience.”
Pilgrimage today: the meaning-making potential of ritual (2013, methodology): “They accept patterns of action which are not based on linear causality, but provide meaningfulness and experiential validity (Schnell, 2011b).”
Assessing meaning and meaning making in the context of stressful life events: Measurement tools and approaches (2013, background): “More recent research has also supported the importance of these domains (Reker & Woo, 2011; Schnell, 2011).”
Meaningfulness as Satisfaction of Autonomy, Competence, Relatedness, and Beneficence: Comparing the Four Satisfactions and Positive Affect as Predictors of Meaning in Life (2018, background): “As regards beneficence and MIL, contributing towards something larger than oneself has sometimes been seen as almost a definitional part of a meaningful life (Frankl 1963; Wong 1989), and some research evidence has indeed shown how various forms of beneficence are connected to a greater sense of mea”
Spirituality with and without Religion—Differential Relationships with Personality (2012, background): “Authority for belief systems has shifted from the ‘Church without’ to the ‘God within’ (Barker, 2004)—validated not by coherence with truth claims but rather experientially (Schnell, 2008a, 2011b).”
The mismanaged soul: Existential labor and the erosion of meaningful work (2017, unknown): “Although deep existential acting is a congruent existential state, as we saw earlier, what is meaningful to an individual is subjective, profoundly felt, and most likely arises from multiple sources (Lips-Wiersma & Morris, 2009; Schnell, 2011).”