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  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: Experience of Meaning in Life
    sub title: Classical Perspectives, Emerging Themes, and Controversies
  name:
    name part: Hicks, Joshua A.
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: Routledge, Clay.
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: ne
    date issued: 2013
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XII, 417 p. online resource.
  abstract: This edited volume takes an in depth exploration into the burgeoning field of meaning in life in the psychological sciences. Each chapter features leading scholars who describe current empirical findings in a thorough and accessible manner, highlighting important issues and controversies facing the scientific study of meaning in life. The book covers an exhaustive range of topics including conceptual and methodological issues, core psychological mechanisms that contribute to a sense of meaning, as well as important antecedents, environmental, cognitive and personality variables that bear on the experience of meaning in life. This volume is a must read for any researcher, student, or clinician interested in the state of meaning in life in the psychological sciences.
  table of contents: Introduction; Joshua A. Hicks and Clay Routledge -- Part I. Theoretical Perspectives -- Chapter 1. The Four Needs for Meaning, the Value gap, and How (and Whether) Society Can Fill the Void; A. Will Crescioni and Roy F. Baumeister -- Chapter 2. A Terror Management Perspective on the Creation and Defense of Meaning; Daniel Sullivan, Spee Kosloff and Jeff Greenberg -- Chapter 3. I Die, therefore I Am: The Pursuit of Meaning in the Light of Death; Philip J. Cozzolino and Laura E. R. Blackie -- Chapter 4. Meaning Maintenance Model: Introducing Soren to Existential Social Psychology; Travis Proulx -- Chapter 5. Trauma and Meaning Making: Converging Conceptualizations and Emerging Evidence; Crystal L. Park -- Chapter 6. Subjective Well-Being and Meaning in Life in a Hostile World: Proposing a Configurative Perspective; Dov Shmotkin and Amit Shrira -- Chapter 7. The Origins of Meaning: Objective Reality, the Unconscious Mind, and Awareness; Samantha J. Heintzelman and Laura A. King -- Part II. Cognition, Decision Making, and Motivational Processes -- Chapter 8. Destiny is in the Details: Action Identification in the Construction and Destruction of Meaning; Jay L. Michaels, Steven S. Parkin and Robin R. Vallacher -- Chapter 9. Emotions and Meaning in Life: A Motivational Perspective; David Tang, Nicholas J. Kelley, Joshua A. Hicks and Eddie Harmon-Jones -- Chapter 10. Meaning and the Horizon of Interpretation: How Goals Structure Our Experience of the World; Jacob B. Hirsh -- Chapter 11. The Meaning of Hope and Vice Versa: Goal-Directed Thinking and the Construction of a Meaningful Life; David B. Feldman -- Chapter 12. Any Second Could Be the Second: How Thinking about What Might Have Been Affects the Emergence of Meaning and Commitment across the Adult Life Span; Hal E. Hershfield, Courtney E. Brown and Laura J. Kray -- Chapter 13. Judgments of Meaning in Life Following Existential Crises; William E. Davis and Joshua A. Hicks -- Part III. Self, Identity, and Individual Dif…
  note: edited by Joshua A. Hicks, Clay Routledge.
  subject:
    topic: Psychology
  subject:
    topic: Medical research
  subject:
    topic: Quality of life
  subject:
    topic: Personality
  subject:
    topic: Social psychology
  subject:
    topic: Positive psychology
  subject:
    topic: Psychology
  subject:
    topic: Positive Psychology
  subject:
    topic: Quality of Life Research
  subject:
    topic: Personality and Social Psychology
  classification: BF204.6
  classification: 150.1988
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      title: Springer eBooks
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