Detecting and constructing meaning in life events

By L. King, Joshua A. Hicks. 2009

132 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Literature and Literary Theory, Social Psychology, Sociology and Political Science

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In Literature and Literary Theory

1. Frank Martela
2. M. Steger
3. D. Vella‐Brodrick
4. I. Brdar
5. Barbara L. Fredrickson
6. Richard M. Ryan
7. V. Huta
8. Arnold B. Bakker

In Social Psychology

1. Frank Martela
2. D. Vella‐Brodrick
3. Richard M. Ryan
4. M. Steger
5. T. Kashdan
6. Arnold B. Bakker
7. Robert J. Vallerand
8. I. Brdar

In Sociology and Political Science

1. Richard M. Ryan
2. Jina Park
3. I. Brdar
4. M. Wissing
5. D. Vella‐Brodrick
6. Frank Martela
7. Barbara L. Fredrickson
8. M. Steger

Citations in the corpus

• The Mindfulness-to-Meaning Theory: Extensions, Applications, and Challenges at the Attention–Appraisal–Emotion Interface (2015, background): “Hence, people attempt to reduce uncertainty and regain control by constructing meaningful patterns in the chaos of their lives (King & Hicks, 2009).”
• Meaning in life and adjustment to daily stressors (2017, background): “The attempt to find meaning amid highly stressful life events is common among human beings (Frankl, 1963; King & Hicks, 2009; Park, 2010).”
• Meaningfulness as Satisfaction of Autonomy, Competence, Relatedness, and Beneficence: Comparing the Four Satisfactions and Positive Affect as Predictors of Meaning in Life (2018, methodology): “First, following other research pointing toward important differences between whole-life meaning and a more episodic perspective of meaning (e.g. King and Hicks 2009), the study focused on experiences of meaning within specific events.”
• Sources and motives for personal meaning in adulthood (2013, background): “In favourable conditions, a dynamic process can be hypothesized from detection/assimilation to construction/accommodation (King & Hicks, 2009), promoting increasing levels of complexity in the meaning system, analogously to the processes occurring in cognitive development.”
• Individual differences in meaning-making: Considering the variety of sources of meaning, their density and diversity (2011, unknown): “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).”