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Man's Search for Meaning: An Introduction to Logotherapy.
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This article is published in Therapeutic recreation journal.The article was published on 1999-01-24 and is currently open access. It has received 1414 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Logotherapy & Meaning (existential).read more
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Bad is stronger than good
Catrin Finkenauer,Peter Kerkhof +1 more
TL;DR: This paper found that bad is stronger than good, as a general principle across a broad range of psychological phenomena, such as bad emotions, bad parents, bad feedback, and bad information is processed more thoroughly than good.
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The Meaning in Life Questionnaire: Assessing the Presence of and Search for Meaning in Life
TL;DR: The Meaning in Life Questionnaire (MLQ) as mentioned in this paper is a 10-item measure of the presence of, and the search for, meaning in life, which was developed to measure the emotional well-being of counseling patients.
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Know Thyself and Become What You are: A Eudaimonic Approach to Psychological Well-Being
Carol D. Ryff,Burton H. Singer +1 more
TL;DR: Ryff as mentioned in this paper revisited key messages from Aristotle's Nichomacean Ethics to strengthen conceptual foundations of eudaimonic well-being, and examined ideas about positive human functioning from existential and utilitarian philosophy as well as clinical, developmental, and humanistic psychology.
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Orientations to happiness and life satisfaction: The full life versus the empty life.
TL;DR: This paper measured life satisfaction and the endorsement of three different ways to be happy through pleasure, through engagement, and through meaning, and found that people simultaneously low on all three orientations reported especially low life satisfaction.
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The Development of Purpose During Adolescence
TL;DR: The field of psychology has been slow to recognize the importance of purpose for positive youth development Until recently, purpose was understood, if at all, as a means of adapting to threatening conditions rather than as a motivator of good deeds and galvanizer of character growth as mentioned in this paper.
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Bad is stronger than good
Catrin Finkenauer,Peter Kerkhof +1 more
TL;DR: This paper found that bad is stronger than good, as a general principle across a broad range of psychological phenomena, such as bad emotions, bad parents, bad feedback, and bad information is processed more thoroughly than good.
Journal ArticleDOI
The Meaning in Life Questionnaire: Assessing the Presence of and Search for Meaning in Life
TL;DR: The Meaning in Life Questionnaire (MLQ) as mentioned in this paper is a 10-item measure of the presence of, and the search for, meaning in life, which was developed to measure the emotional well-being of counseling patients.
Journal ArticleDOI
Know Thyself and Become What You are: A Eudaimonic Approach to Psychological Well-Being
Carol D. Ryff,Burton H. Singer +1 more
TL;DR: Ryff as mentioned in this paper revisited key messages from Aristotle's Nichomacean Ethics to strengthen conceptual foundations of eudaimonic well-being, and examined ideas about positive human functioning from existential and utilitarian philosophy as well as clinical, developmental, and humanistic psychology.
Journal ArticleDOI
Orientations to happiness and life satisfaction: The full life versus the empty life.
TL;DR: This paper measured life satisfaction and the endorsement of three different ways to be happy through pleasure, through engagement, and through meaning, and found that people simultaneously low on all three orientations reported especially low life satisfaction.
Journal ArticleDOI
The Development of Purpose During Adolescence
TL;DR: The field of psychology has been slow to recognize the importance of purpose for positive youth development Until recently, purpose was understood, if at all, as a means of adapting to threatening conditions rather than as a motivator of good deeds and galvanizer of character growth as mentioned in this paper.