Man's Search for Meaning

By A. Lengle. 2005

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The Five “A”s of Meaning Maintenance: Finding Meaning in the Theories of Sense-Making (2012, background): “As it was for Job (and Frankl, 1946), it is not the pain of these events that hurt so much as the perceived injustice: what did we do to deserve this hardship?”
Meaningful work, work engagement and organisational commitment (2014, background): “Frankl (1984) proclaims that a man’s search for meaning is a primary force in his life; it’s unique and specific in that it must and can be fulfilled only by himself alone.”
Meaning‐centered group psychotherapy for patients with advanced cancer: a pilot randomized controlled trial (2010, methodology): “This manualized an 8-week intervention which is influenced by the work of Viktor Frankl [22,23], and utilizes didactics, discussion and experiential exercises that focus around themes related to meaning and advanced cancer (see Figure 1).”
Loss, Grief, and the Search for Significance: Toward a Model of Meaning Reconstruction in Bereavement (2006, background): “Victor Frankl’s (1962) seminal work, Man’s Search for Meaning, asserted that people are driven by a psychological need to find or create a sense of meaning and purpose in their lives, and that this drive can facilitate their capacity to face and transcend even the most horrific of experiences.”
Corporate social responsibility as a source of employee satisfaction (2012, background): “Many classic theories of motivation and human development suggest that people strive to achieve more in life than material comfort and social approval (Alderfer, 1972; Erikson, 1950; Maslow, 1943, 1954, 1971; McClelland, 1965; McGregor, 1960; Rogers, 1959, 1961; see also Frankl, 1959).”
Ethos of conflict: The concept and its measurement. (2012, background): “Successful coping with stress requires making sense of, and finding order and meaning in, the stressful conditions within existing schemes and the existing worldview, or integration between the events and the existing worldview (Antonovsky, 1987; Frankl, 1963; Janoff-Bulman, 1992; Kobasa, 1985).”
Who is Mturk? Personal characteristics and sample consistency of these online workers (2018, background): “Purpose In Life Test (PIL) Developed by Crumbaugh (1968), this 20-item scale measures a person’s search for meaning and purpose in their lives as defined by Frankl (1985).”
Ten things that motivational interviewing is not. (2009, background): “Even under the most extreme privations of concentration camps, what could never be taken away was that choice of how to be (Frankl, 1963).”
From Vulnerability to Growth: Positive and Negative Effects of Stressful Life Events (2021, background): “For decades, philosophers and psychologists have written about the paradoxical positive effects that may occur in the wake of severely traumatic events, including the Holocaust, serious illness, natural disasters, and other traumatic events (e.g., Chodoff, Friedman, & Hamburg, 1964; Frankl, 1963; Me”
Meaning, Purpose, and Religiosity in at-Risk Youth: The Relationship between Anxiety and Spirituality (2003, background): “Frankl (1984) recognized that the personal belief that one's life fulfills some higher purpose and serves some higher power is of enormous psychogenic value, "There is nothing in the world, I venture to say, that would so effectively help one to survive even the worst conditions as the knowledge…”
Eco-Anxiety and Environmental Education (2020, background): “A classic thinker in this regard is Victor Frankl, who developed his Logotherapy on the basis of ﬁnding meaning in even atrocious circumstances [240,241].”
Burnout prevention through personal growth (2005, background): “The importance of this concept is most dramatically emphasized by Frankl (1963), who found that those prisoners in his Nazi concentration camp who could find a purpose or a goal had a chance of surviving.”
Death and Black Diamonds: Meaning, Mortality, and the Meaning Maintenance Model (2006, unknown): “Frankl, V. E. (1946). Man’s search for meaning.”
A Model of Meaning-Making Coping and Growth in Combat Veterans (2011, background): “Although not the only relevant factor, assigning meaning to events plays a critical role in determining the stressfulness of an event (Frankl, 1992).”