Making sense of the meaning literature: an integrative review of meaning making and its effects on adjustment to stressful life events.
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Summary
An integrated model of meaning making is presented, which distinguishes between the constructs of global and situational meaning and between "meaning-making efforts" and "meaning made," and it elaborates subconstructs within these constructs.
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- review
- Published
- 2010-03-01
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- 3,021
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- 389
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Keywords
Meaning (existential), Situational ethics, Context (archaeology), Empirical research, Psychology
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