Prosociality enhances meaning in life

By D. V. Van Tongeren, Jeffrey D. Green, Don E. Davis, J. Hook, T. Hulsey. 2016

168 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Social Psychology, Sociology and Political Science

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/95aa079996c71a1b1684a20b818a21e5187d321d

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In Social Psychology

1. Frank Martela
2. M. Steger
3. Richard M. Ryan
4. T. Kashdan
5. Maarten Vansteenkiste
6. Bart Soenens
7. Robert J. Vallerand
8. L. King

In Sociology and Political Science

1. Frank Martela
2. M. Steger
3. Richard M. Ryan
4. Juho Hamari
5. Edward L. Deci

Citations in the corpus

• Meaningfulness as Satisfaction of Autonomy, Competence, Relatedness, and Beneficence: Comparing the Four Satisfactions and Positive Affect as Predictors of Meaning in Life (2018, background): “…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 meaning (McGregor and Little 1998; Schnell 2011; Shek et al. 1994; Van Tongeren et al. 2016).”