Is loss beneficial? The role of assimilation in holistic thinking and meanings made

• المؤلف الرئيسي: Thamran, Letisha
• مؤلفون آخرون: Albert Lee Kai Chung
• التنسيق: Final Year Project
• اللغة: English
• منشور في: Nanyang Technological University 2024
• الموضوعات: Social Sciences; Holistic thinking; Meaning making; Meanings in life; Loss; Stressful experiences; Assimilation; Meanings made; Positive psychology; Cultural psychology
• الوصول للمادة أونلاين: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/175596
• المؤسسة: Nanyang Technological University

Loss can be painful, but it may also offer people something they did not see before. Why can some people see new meanings after losing someone they love, and some cannot? What underlying processes are in operation? These questions are the focus of this research. We hypothesized that holistic thinkin...