Meaning-in-Life Measures and Development of a Brief Version of the Personal Meaning Profile
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Inquiry into the meaning of life goes back to antiquity from Lao Tzu (trans. 1913) to King Solomon (Ecclesiastes, New International Version). Th ere is also a long and venerable tradition in psychology of exploring the meaning of human existence (Adler, 1931/1958; Frankl, 1963/1985; James, 1902; Jung, 1933; May, 1958) and self-actualization (Maslow, 1962; Rogers, 1980). However, empirical studies of meaning have been very recent (Wong & Fry, 1998). Psychologists have long theorized about the functions of meaning in human adaptation and fl ourishing, but the development of instruments to measure meaning in life has been hampered by the diffi culty of operationally defi ning the meaning construct.
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