Are meaning and purpose distinct? An examination of correlates and predictors

By Login S. George, Crystal L. Park. 2013

119 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Applied Psychology, Clinical Psychology, Health

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/efe6e4e4bffdf434f451bf354c346625dd243e8c

How researchers see this paper

The researchers whose trusted networks rank it highest, strongest advocate first. Every researcher gets a different order.

In Applied Psychology

1. K. Masters
2. S. Hooker
3. Crystal L. Park

In Clinical Psychology

1. Crystal L. Park
2. K. Masters
3. S. Hooker
4. Login S. George
5. T. Schnell
6. B. Larner
7. A. Blow
8. M. Steger

In Health

1. K. Masters
2. Crystal L. Park
3. B. Larner
4. A. Blow

Citations in the corpus

• A Meaningful Life is a Healthy Life: A Conceptual Model Linking Meaning and Meaning Salience to Health (2018, background): “One aspect, purpose, is often used interchangeably with meaning in the literature (George & Park, 2013).”
• The three meanings of meaning in life: Distinguishing coherence, purpose, and significance (2016, unknown): “Nascent research supports the hypothesis that different experiential aspects influence different facets of meaning differently (see George & Park, 2013; Heintzelman & King, 2014b), which is an early signal that the facets are distinct.”