Existential Indifference: Another Quality of Meaning in Life

By T. Schnell. 2010

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Subfields: Applied Psychology, General Health Professions, Social Psychology

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Predicting meaning in work: Theory, data, implications (2013, background): “A sense of meaningfulness is a highly subjective appraisal, based on a more or less conscious perception of coherence, direction, significance, and belonging in one’s life (Schnell, 2009a, 2010b, 2012).”
The Relationship Between Meaning in Life and Subjective Well-Being: Forgiveness and Hope as Mediators (2014, background): “In a study carried out among German students (N = 135), Schnell (2010) examined distribution of types of meaning and their relationships with various variables.”
Individual differences in meaning-making: Considering the variety of sources of meaning, their density and diversity (2011, background): “Some findings seem to indicate that certain sources of meaning, such as religiosity (Emmons, 2005; Schnell, 2010), or community (Debats, 1999; O’Connor & Chamberlain, 1996), are more predictive of meaningfulness than others.”
Pilgrimage today: the meaning-making potential of ritual (2013, background): “…tatjana.schnell@uibk.ac.at Mental Health, Religion & Culture, 2013 Vol. 16, No. 9, 887–902, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13674676.2013.766449 are confronted with “existential indifference” (Schnell, 2010) and atheist “coming-outs” (e.g., outcampaign.org), even among clergy (Dennett & LaScola, 2010).”
Measuring the Meaning of Meaningful Work (2012, background): “Finally, our results identify a dynamic process to which MFW literature has paid little attention but that are addressed in the existential literature (Guignon & Pereboom, 1995; Schnell, 2010).”
Sources and motives for personal meaning in adulthood (2013, background): “Sources of meaning have been described as stable orientations that motivate commitment and give direction to life (Schnell, 2010), each source reflecting basic needs, corresponding life goals and facets of meaning structure.”
Meaning-Making in an Atheist World (2011, background): “…the numinous (i.e. “vertical transcendence,” Goodenough, 2001; Ruschmann, 1999; Schnell, 2009a; Schnell & Keenan, 2010), ranging from self-declared a-theism, via indifferent “God-oblivion” (or “Existential Indifference,” Schnell, 2010) and agnosticism, to different grades of religiosity (see Fig.”