Meaning in Life as a Subjective Judgment and a Lived Experience

By Joshua A. Hicks, L. King. 2009

102 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Applied Psychology, Clinical Psychology, Social Psychology

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In Applied Psychology

1. Crystal L. Park
2. Frank Martela
3. M. Steger
4. Login S. George
5. Richard M. Ryan
6. Joshua A. Hicks
7. D. Vella‐Brodrick
8. I. Brdar

In Clinical Psychology

1. Login S. George
2. Frank Martela
3. Crystal L. Park
4. M. Steger
5. Joshua A. Hicks
6. D. Vella‐Brodrick
7. Richard M. Ryan
8. A. Delle Fave

In Social Psychology

1. Frank Martela
2. Login S. George
3. Crystal L. Park
4. M. Steger
5. Richard M. Ryan
6. D. Vella‐Brodrick
7. Joshua A. Hicks
8. I. Brdar

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): “1262 F. Martela et al. Belongingness, or sense of relatedness to others, is itself widely researched as a source of meaning (Hicks and King 2009b; Lambert et al. 2013).”
• Sources and motives for personal meaning in adulthood (2013, background): “The psychological nature of meaning has been explored referring to meaning as a personal life experience, subjectively judged and evaluated according to one’s true self characteristics (Auhagen & Holub, 2006; Hicks & King, 2009).”
• The True Self and Psychological Health: Emerging Evidence and Future Directions (2011, background): “Previous research has shown that making an important source of meaning accessible influences subsequent judgments of meaning in life (e.g., Hicks & King, 2008, 2009b; Hicks, Schlegel, & King, 2010; King et al., 2006).”
• Meaning in Life as Comprehension, Purpose, and Mattering: Toward Integration and New Research Questions (2016, methodology): “Two, for a tripartite view to be maximally useful, relationships among comprehension, purpose, and mattering, and subjective judgments and feelings of MIL (Heintzelman & King, 2014; Hicks & King, 2009) must be determined.”
• The Multidimensional Existential Meaning Scale: A tripartite approach to measuring meaning in life (2017, methodology): “As discussed, the MIL judgments approach is a common measurement approach in the literature and has been argued to be a valid method (Hicks & King, 2009).”
• Are meaning and purpose distinct? An examination of correlates and predictors (2013, background): “Although meaning and purpose are subjective judgments (Hicks & King, 2009), participants may have exaggerated their true felt sense of meaning and purpose.”