Purpose Engagement in meaningful occupations and being included as full citizens of the community, is essential everyday life, may be considerable relevance for recovery quality life. However, persons with co-occurring substance use mental health problems experience extensive obstacles to engagement citizenship. The relationship between objective measures occupational status subjective experien...

The appropriateness of the stress-coping and life transitions models for late life experiences was assessed by examining psychosocial correlates of spouse caregiving in association with widowhood. Data were from the Health Status of Older People (HSOP) survey of 1,000 people aged 65 and over living in the community in Melbourne, Australia. Caregiving was found to be a usual precursor to widowho...

The current study aims to empirically examine the effect of entrepreneurial orientation on new product creativity, competitive advantage, and performance. Data are collected from 424 Small Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs) in South Korea. suggested hypotheses tested through structural equation modeling technique. analysis outcome shows that has a significant positive both (NP) novelty meaningfuln...

We formulated, tested, and supported, in 6 studies, a theoretical model according to which individuals use nostalgia as a way to reinject meaningfulness in their lives when they experience boredom. Studies 1-3 established that induced boredom causes increases in nostalgia when participants have the opportunity to revert to their past. Studies 4 and 5 examined search for meaning as a mediator of...

RATIONALE As support in leading a meaningful and active life, a person with mental illness is often given the opportunity to attend a day centre. However, few studies have investigated the meaningfulness perceived by the person visiting a day centre. For such a purpose, a self-report instrument was developed. AIMS To explore whether perceived meaningfulness, as expressed in the recently devel...

Abstract The deaths of those on whom our practical identities rely generate a sense disorientation or alienation from the world seemingly at odds with life being meaningful. In terms put forth in Cheshire Calhoun's recent account meaningfulness life, because their existence serves as metaphysical presupposition identities, threaten to upend background frame agency against which much choice and ...