Development of the Meaning in Life Measure

Hill, Clara E.; Kline, Kathryn; Miller, Matthew J.; Marks, Ellen; Pinto-Coelho, Kristen G.; Zetzer, Heidi A.

doi:10.1080/09515070.2018.1434483

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“…Meaning in life was measured by Meaning in Life measure [26]. The scale includes 8 items that are clustered into two subscales: experience (4 items) and reflectivity (4 items).…”

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Loneliness and Psychological Distress: A Mediating Role of Meaning in Life during COVID-19 Pandemic

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2021

Anxiety, Uncertainty, and Resilience During the Pandemic Period - Anthropological and Psychological Perspectives

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The COVID-19 pandemic represents a health crisis with a high amount of loneliness, which in turn may be associated with negative mental health outcome like psychological distress. This chapter aimed to investigate if meaning in life mediated the effect of loneliness on symptoms of psychological distress. A young adult sample (N = 605, 75.7% women) completed the measures of loneliness, psychological distress, and meaning in life. The results indicated that meaning in life mediated the relations between loneliness and psychological distress symptoms. This relation was significant at low, medium, and high levels of meaning in life. The study shows that experience of loneliness is associated with symptoms of psychological distress. Level of meaning in life differentiates the direct and indirect effect of loneliness on psychological distress. Knowledge about the effect of loneliness in response to a health crisis is important for developing treatment and prevention strategies for loneliness, psychological distress, and meaning in life.

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“…Meaning in life was measured by Meaning in Life measure [26]. The scale includes 8 items that are clustered into two subscales: experience (4 items) and reflectivity (4 items).…”

Section: Meaning In Lifementioning

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Loneliness and Psychological Distress: A Mediating Role of Meaning in Life during COVID-19 Pandemic

Yıldırım¹

2021

Anxiety, Uncertainty, and Resilience During the Pandemic Period - Anthropological and Psychological Perspectives

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“…Journal of Happiness and Health showed that meaning in life increases mental health-related outcomes such as happiness, positive emotions, wellbeing and coping strategies and reduces symptoms of stress, anxiety and depression (Arslan et al, 2020;Hill et al 2019;. Meaning in life, for example, acts as a a protective factor for promoting well-being and mental health as it mitigates adversity .…”

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“…In addition, scales, subscales, or items on those have been confounded with other conceptually related, yet distinct constructs. Moreover, existing measures of meaning in life have neglected important aspects of meaning in life, such as experience and reflectivity (Hill et al, 2019). Since most measures used to assess meaning in life are self-reported based on subjective perceptions, the main focus of this study is to examine the psychometric properties of the Meaning in Life Measure (MILM), which is a recently introduced measure of meaning in life (Hill et al, 2019).…”

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“…Moreover, existing measures of meaning in life have neglected important aspects of meaning in life, such as experience and reflectivity (Hill et al, 2019). Since most measures used to assess meaning in life are self-reported based on subjective perceptions, the main focus of this study is to examine the psychometric properties of the Meaning in Life Measure (MILM), which is a recently introduced measure of meaning in life (Hill et al, 2019). However, due to newly presented into the relevant literature, evidence regarding its usefulness and efficacy for assessing meaning in life is limited.…”

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“…To the best of our knowledge, the MILM has not yet been available in different cultures. Other than the original measure (Hill et al, 2019), some evidence regarding the factor structure of the measure has only been reported in Turkish culture by Yıldırım (2021). In that study, Yıldırım (2021) used a sample from the public ranging in age between 18 and 58 years.…”

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Validation and utility of the Meaning in Life Measure for Turkish university students

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The Meaning in Life Measure (MILM) is a new measure for assessing meaning in life by addressing problems associated with existing measures of meaning in life (absence of items related to reflectivity, felt sense, and mattering). For the first time, this study aimed to test the psychometric properties of the MILM for university students in Turkey. We used a sample of 376 university students (Mage=24.03±4.65 years) who participated in an online survey including the MILM, the Adult Dispositional Hope Scale, and the Depression, Anxiety, and Stress Scale – 21. To study the factor structure of the MILM, we firstly employed a dual approach including exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis, which provided support for the goodness of a two-factor model (experience and reflectivity). We secondly tested the convergent and predictive validity of the measure by respectively applying correlation and regression analyses. Our findings supported the convergent validity of the MILM, showing correlations with hope, anxiety, and depression. The predictive validity was also confirmed; the experience subscale of MILM uniquely predicted hope, anxiety, and depression after controlling for covariates (age and gender). Thirdly, our findings showed that the MILM and its subscales had high internal consistency reliability. The Turkish version of the MILM is provided to be a reliable and valid instrument for assessing meaning in life for university students in Turkey.

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Intuition and meaning in life in persons with varying level of depressive symptoms and impairments in personality functioning

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Objectives The current research explored the interplay between intuition, meaning in life, and psychopathology. Specifically, we investigated whether experiential and reflective components of meaning in life are associated with depressive symptoms and personality pathology, whether intuition is related to the experience of meaning, and whether psychopathology has disruptive effects on intuition as well as on the link between intuition and the experience of meaning. Methods We tested our preregistered hypotheses in two independent studies. In Study 1, N = 448 participants completed self‐report instruments assessing the experiential and the reflective dimensions of meaning in life, depressive symptoms, and impairments in personality functioning. Intuition was operationalized as the ability to intuitively detect semantic coherence in an experimental task. Additionally, self‐reported confidence in intuition was assessed. In Study 2, we aimed to replicate our findings and hypotheses that emerged from Study 1 with a new sample of N = 1189 participants. Results In both studies, participants with more depressive symptoms or higher levels of personality pathology experienced life as less meaningful but reflected significantly more about meaning in life. The intuitive ability to discriminate between coherence and incoherence in the experimental task was neither related to the experience of meaning in life nor to psychopathology, but more confidence in intuition was associated with experiencing life as more meaningful and with less psychopathological symptoms. It was tentatively supported that the association between meaning in life and intuition was moderated by psychopathology. Conclusion The findings are discussed in terms of their clinical implications and regarding the cognitive‐affective processes potentially underlying people's experience of life being meaningful.

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Development of the Meaning in Life Measure

Cited by 23 publications

References 68 publications

Loneliness and Psychological Distress: A Mediating Role of Meaning in Life during COVID-19 Pandemic

Loneliness and Psychological Distress: A Mediating Role of Meaning in Life during COVID-19 Pandemic

Validation and utility of the Meaning in Life Measure for Turkish university students

Intuition and meaning in life in persons with varying level of depressive symptoms and impairments in personality functioning

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