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Abbravation: Journal of Happiness Studies

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10.1002/chin.201225218

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1573-7780

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The Meaning of Lives and the Meaning of Things

Authors: Wim de Muijnck
Publish Date: 2012/09/06
Volume: 14, Issue: 4, Pages: 1291-1307
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Meaning in life is an important aspect of human wellbeing and motivation But as the notion of ‘meaning in life’ is not easily assimilated to that of semantic meaning it is difficult to define While meaning in life is standardly discussed in terms of meaningful ways of living I here take the alternative approach of discussing the meaningfulness of things for agents I claim that such meaningfulness or significance consists in the ways in which things invite agentrelevant responses Meaningfulness in that sense is important for understanding not just meaning in life for mature human beings but also meaning for children meaning in the arts the continuity between ‘mere’ living and living meaningfully and the connection between meaning in life and semantic meaning

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  2. Measuring Meaning in Life
  3. What Makes Entrepreneurs Happy? Determinants of Satisfaction Among Founders
  4. Investigation of the Contribution of Spirituality and Religiousness to Hedonic and Eudaimonic Well-Being in Iranian Young Adults
  5. Sleep Habits May Undermine Well-Being Through the Stressor Appraisal Process
  6. Revealing Hidden Curvilinear Relations Between Work Engagement and Its Predictors: Demonstrating the Added Value of Generalized Additive Model (GAM)
  7. Can Hope be Changed in 90 Minutes? Testing the Efficacy of a Single-Session Goal-Pursuit Intervention for College Students
  8. Self-Efficacy for Affect Regulation as a Predictor of Future Life Satisfaction and Moderator of the Negative Affect—Life Satisfaction Relationship
  9. The Subjective Wellbeing of ‘At-Risk’ Indigenous and Non-Indigenous Australian Adolescents
  10. The Psychosocial Construction of Parenting: An Examination of Parenting Goals and Narratives in Relation to Well-Being
  11. The Connection Between Happiness and Service Businesses: A Preliminary Study
  12. The Determinants of Happiness of China’s Elderly Population
  13. The Silver Lining of Materialism: The Impact of Luxury Consumption on Subjective Well-Being
  14. Personal Resilience in Times of Crisis: The Implications of SWB Homeostasis and Set-Points
  15. Thinking About One’s Subjective Well-Being: Average Trends and Individual Differences
  16. The Value of Exploratory Structural Equation Modeling in Identifying Factor Overlap in the Mental Health Continuum-Short Form (MHC-SF): A Study with a New Zealand Sample
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