What do people find most meaningful? How representations of the self and the world provide meaning in life
Journal of Personality2021Vol. 90(4), pp. 541–558
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Abstract
Integrating prior theorizing on MIL, we conclude that mental representations function as "meaning frameworks" to the extent that they provide feelings of purpose, mattering, and, sometimes, coherence.
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