Resilience, Meaning, and Well-Being

By O. R. Lightsey. 2006

147 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Applied Psychology, Clinical Psychology, Social Psychology

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/e186edd8d991e9b444059e6baff213e71f887662

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In Applied Psychology

1. Tayyab Rashid
2. D. Chan

In Clinical Psychology

1. Tayyab Rashid
2. D. Chan

In Social Psychology

1. Tayyab Rashid

Citations in the corpus

• Purpose in life and reasons for living as mediators of the relationship between stress, coping, and suicidal behavior (2007, background): “Existential and humanistic therapies have long focused on meaning and, indeed, mounting evidence underscores the importance of meaning both in fostering well-being and combating psychological malaise (see Lightsey, 2006 ).”
• Positive psychotherapy: A strength-based approach (2015, background): “There is solid evidence that having a sense of meaning and purpose helps individuals to recover or rebound quickly from adversity and buffer against feelings of hopelessness and uncontrollability (Graham, Lobel, Glass, & Lokshina, 2008; Lightsey, 2006).”