Educational measurement.

Douglas, O. B.; Holland, B. F.

doi:10.1037/14910-020

Fundamentals of Educational Psychology.

DOI: 10.1037/14910-020

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Educational measurement.

O. B. Douglas¹,

B. F. Holland²

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“… 4. The work environment here refers to the aggregate of all the external forces, influences, and conditions surrounding work, which affect (or influence) an individual's meaning-making process (adapted from the broader definition of environment given by Douglas & Holland (1938)). …”

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Meaning in life through work: A cognitive-experiential self-theory (CEST) perspective

Baburaj

Marathe

2023

Organizational Psychology Review

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This article explores existential meaning-making from work using the cognitive-experiential self-theory (CEST). To start with, we use the tenets of CEST to elaborate on how the cues from archetype work environments—a realization facilitating work environment (RfWE) and justification facilitating work environment (JfWE)—are interpreted by information-processing systems to imbue meaning in life (MiL) as internal or external manifestations of coherence, purpose, and significance. Next, we explain how individual differences in work centrality and proactive meaning-crafting ability moderate the impact of JfWE, but not of RfWE, on MiL. Finally, we create a nomological network of existential meaning states emerging from the simultaneous presence or absence of RfWE and JfWE. In summary, by applying the information-processing lens of CEST, we develop an integrated model that explains how work drives MiL, elucidates the resultant existential states, and assesses the role of individual differences in meaning-making. Plain Language Summary This article develops an integrated model that outlines how work environments can augur human well-being by fostering a sense of meaning in life (MiL). Based on the cognitive-experiential self-theory (CEST), expounding parallel-competitive processing of information through the working of the experiential and rational system, we explore how the cues from archetype work environments—a realization facilitating work environment (RfWE) and justification facilitating work environment (JfWE)—influence the varied flavors of MiL and meaninglessness in life. We build the argument that RfWE activates the functioning of the experiential system to induce a feeling of internal MiL as internal coherence, internal purpose, and internal value significance. At the same time, JfWE triggers the functioning of the rational system to construct a judgment of external MiL as external coherence, external worthy purpose, and external value significance. However, the interaction between RfWE and JfWE can result in intricate scenarios, including favorable states such as holistic meaning, positive existential feelings, and positive existential narratives. Still, it can also lead individuals into meaninglessness in life through existential fatigue, existential cocoon, or existential futility. Nonetheless, individual differences in work centrality and proactive behavior to craft meaning can act as moderators to alter the intensity of work’s impact on MiL in a JfWE but not in an RfWE.

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Meaning in life through work: A cognitive-experiential self-theory (CEST) perspective

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2023

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“…But he then aims to turn the tables on the theist by claiming that the conditions requiring the exercise of such courage 'are more likely to be encountered in a Darwinist than a providentialist world'. 27 Living life with no assurance that it will be worthwhile, calls for more courage, as Holland sees it, than doing so with the belief that all will ultimately be redeemed. I have already indicated, in the long passage just quoted, that I think this misconstrues the mindset of the believer: theistic faith is not a species of naïve optimism about the future.…”

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Reply to Holland … the Meaning of Life and Darwinism

Cottingham¹

2011

Environmental Values

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While finding no fault with Darwinism as a scientific theory, this paper argues that there are serious problems for the scientistic construal of Darwinism that interprets the universe as nothing but a purely random and contingent flow of events. Life in a godless impersonal universe is beset by contingency, alienation, despair, failure and fragility. Notwithstanding Alan Holland's claim that we can evade these problems though self-affirmation, I argue that human beings can achieve meaningful lives only by acknowledging our dependency and accepting the authority of values we did not create.

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