The facets of meaningful experiences: An examination of purpose and coherence in meaningful and meaningless events

• Main Authors: TOV, William, NG, Weiting, KANG, Soon-Hock
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2021
• Subjects: meaning; purpose; coherence; significance; positive affect; events; Applied Behavior Analysis; Community Psychology; Social and Behavioral Sciences
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/3527; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/soss_research/article/4785/viewcontent/2021_TovEtAl.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

Research on meaning has begun to assess the specific facets of meaning in life. Few studies have examined the extent to which these facets distinguish meaning at the level of individual events. In the present study, participants from Singapore and the U.S. wrote about meaningful and meaningless even...