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Jessie Dezutter
Researcher at Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
Publications - 74
Citations - 1584
Jessie Dezutter is an academic researcher from Katholieke Universiteit Leuven. The author has contributed to research in topics: Meaning (existential) & Life satisfaction. The author has an hindex of 17, co-authored 67 publications receiving 1241 citations. Previous affiliations of Jessie Dezutter include VU University Amsterdam & Catholic University of Leuven.
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Religiosity and mental health: A further exploration of the relative importance of religious behaviors vs. religious attitudes
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the relative contribution of religious involvement and religious attitudes in the prediction of mental health in adulthood and found that religious orientations and social-cognitive approaches to religion were significantly related to well-being outcomes, whereas religious involvement was not.
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Meaning in life: An important factor for the psychological well-being of chronically ill patients?
TL;DR: The present study provides an initial glimpse in how meaning in life may be related to the well-being of chronically ill patients and the acceptance of their condition.
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Meaning in Life in Emerging Adulthood: A Person‐Oriented Approach
Jessie Dezutter,Alan S. Waterman,Seth J. Schwartz,Koen Luyckx,Wim Beyers,Alan Meca,Su Yeong Kim,Susan Krauss Whitbourne,Byron L. Zamboanga,Richard M. Lee,Sam A. Hardy,Larry F. Forthun,Rachel A. Ritchie,Robert S. Weisskirch,Elissa J. Brown,S. Jean Caraway +15 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated naturally occurring profiles based on two dimensions of meaning in life: Presence of Meaning and Search for Meaning, and subsequent analyses identified different patterns in psychosocial functioning for each profile.
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Meaning in life in chronic pain patients over time: associations with pain experience and psychological well-being
TL;DR: It is found that Presence of Meaning was an important predictor of well-being and associated with a unique adjustment outcome in a three-wave, 2 year, longitudinal study of Belgian chronic pain patients.
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Prayer and pain: the mediating role of positive re-appraisal
TL;DR: It is indicated that prayer can play a role in pain management, especially for religious pain patients, and the results indicate that positive re-appraisal might be an important underlying mechanism in the association between prayer and pain.