Editors:
- Provides reviews of research programs investigating the science of meaning in life
- Features expert opinions on the state of meaning in life research in the psychological sciences
- Each chapter addresses current issues, controversies, and suggests future directions in meaning in life research
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Table of contents (30 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Theoretical Perspectives
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Cognition, Decision Making, and Motivational Processes
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Self, Identity, and Individual Differences
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About this book
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 describes 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.
Keywords
- Construction and Destruction of Meaning
- Emotions and Meaning in Life
- Existential Psychology
- Hardiness and Searching for Meaning
- Meaning and Belonging
- Meaning and Commitment across the Adult Life Span
- Meaning in Life
- Meaning in the light of Death
- Meaningfulness at Work
- Mindfulness
- Perceptions of a Meaningful Self
- Positive Psychology
- Psychological Well-being
- Religion and Meaning of Life
- Subjective Well-being
- The Making of Meaning
- The Meaning of Hope
- Wellspring of Meaning
Reviews
From the reviews:
“The editors have succeeded in exposing readers to a wide range of theoretical and empirical treatments of meaning. Therefore, I highly recommend this book as a useful resource for research and applications.” (Paul T. P. Wong, PsycCRITIQUES, Vol. 59 (22), 2014)Editors and Affiliations
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, Dept. of Psychology, Texas A&M University, College Station, USA
Joshua A. Hicks
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, Dept of Psychology, North Dakota State University, Fargo, USA
Clay Routledge
About the editors
Joshua Hicks earned his BA from San Francisco State University, MS from Villanova University, and PhD from the University of Missouri. He is currently an assistant professor in the psychology department at Texas A&M University in College Station, Texas. His research focuses on classic and applied questions related to social and personality psychology. Although the specific question has varied, these lines of investigation are unified by their aim to understand the dynamic interplay of individual differences, situational factors, and cognitive processes in important outcomes such as the experience of meaning in life, positive emotions, psychological well-being, intuition, the link between substance use and behaviour, judgment and decision making processes, and personality development.
Clay Routledge earned his BA from Missouri Southern State University and his MS and PhD from the University of Missouri. He spent two years as an assistant professor in the Centre for Research on Self and Identity at the University of Southampton, UK and is now an assistant professor in the psychology dept at North Dakota State University. He is trained as an experimental social psychologist and his research focuses on the many ways people navigate their social and cultural worlds in order to attain and sustain a sense of meaning, happiness, social connectedness, and self-transcendence.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Experience of Meaning in Life
Book Subtitle: Classical Perspectives, Emerging Themes, and Controversies
Editors: Joshua A. Hicks, Clay Routledge
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-6527-6
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Behavioral Science, Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2013
Hardcover ISBN: 978-94-007-6526-9Published: 11 June 2013
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-007-9648-5Published: 24 June 2015
eBook ISBN: 978-94-007-6527-6Published: 27 May 2013
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 417
Topics: Positive Psychology, Quality of Life Research, Personality and Social Psychology