Individual meaning in life assessed with the Schedule for Meaning in Life Evaluation: toward a circumplex meaning model
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Meaning in life in the Federal Republic of Germany: results of a representative survey with the Schedule for Meaning in Life Evaluation (SMiLE)
BACKGROUND The construct "meaning-in-life" (MiL) has recently raised the interest of clinicians working in psycho-oncology and end-of-life care and has become a topic of scientific investigation. Difficulties regarding the measurement of MiL are related to the various theoretical and conceptual approaches and its inter-individual variability. Therefore the "Schedule for Meaning in Life Evaluati...
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عنوان ژورنال: Palliative and Supportive Care
سال: 2015
ISSN: 1478-9515,1478-9523
DOI: 10.1017/s1478951515000656