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Abbravation: Journal of Happiness Studies

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Springer Netherlands

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10.1007/bf02081463

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1573-7780

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Measuring Meaning in Life

Authors: Jessica Morgan Tom Farsides
Publish Date: 2007/09/25
Volume: 10, Issue: 2, Pages: 197-214
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The present studies addressed the need for a comprehensive economical and psychometrically adequate measure of existential meaning In Study 1 principalaxis factor analysis of participants’ responses to popular meaning measures identified five latent constructs underlying them labelled purposeful life principled life valued life exciting life and accomplished life These dimensions resonate with the meaning in life concept as understood by Frankl 1963 Man’s search for meaning Revised Ed London Hodder Stoughton and the panoply of subsequent theoretical definitions eg Battista and Almond 1973 Psychiatry 36 409–427 2000 Exploring existential meaning Optimising human development across the life span pp 39–55 USA Sage 1998 The human quest for meaning A handbook of psychological research and clinical applications pp 11–140 Mahwah Lawrence Erlbaum Study 2 used these results as a foundation for developing a psychometrically satisfactory selfreport questionnaire of each of these aspects of meaning in life Confirmatory factor analysis CFA validated a fivefactor structure with each factor loading on a common secondorder factor Study 3 provided evidence for this new measure’s convergent validity and economic property The final Meaningful Life Measure is reported and provides comprehensive but differentiated measurement of the meaning in life construct

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