Do Violations of Global Beliefs and Goals Drive Distress and Meaning Making Following Life Stressors?

2020 ◽  
pp. 105413732095834
Author(s):  
Login S. George ◽  
Crystal L. Park
Keyword(s):  
Meaning Making ◽  
Empirical Work ◽  
Additional Research ◽  
Analytic Approach ◽  
Life Stressors ◽  
Treatment Approaches ◽  
Stressful Experiences ◽  
Unique Association

Theoretical and treatment approaches posit that violations of beliefs and goals by stressful experiences drive distress and meaning making. However, empirical work examining this notion is limited. Accordingly, we tested violations’ role in driving distress and meaning-making using repeated assessments among 180 undergraduates coping with a recent significant stressor. On four occasions over two months, we collected data on belief and goal violations, distress, and meaning making. A within-person analytic approach showed that when participants' violations changed, their distress and meaning making also changed in the same direction. Additionally, violations had a unique association with meaning making, independent of distress. Results suggest that experiencing discrepancy between a stressor and one's beliefs and goals may be distressing and lead to efforts to reduce that discrepancy. Additional research on how individuals successfully resolve violations could improve understanding and treatment of individuals dealing with significant stressors.

Meaning in the Context of Stress and Coping

1997 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 115-144 ◽  
Author(s):  
Crystal L. Park ◽  
Susan Folkman
Keyword(s):  
Stressful Life Events ◽  
Meaning Making ◽  
Critical Role ◽  
Empirical Work ◽  
Stress And Coping ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Extended Model ◽  
Critical Dimensions ◽  
Coping Process ◽  
And Coping

Although theoretical and empirical work on topics related to meaning and meaning making proliferate, careful evaluation and integration of this area have not been carried out. Toward this end, this article has 3 goals: (a) to elaborate the critical dimensions of meaning as it relates to stressful life events and conditions, (b) to extend the transactional model of stress and coping to include these dimensions, and (c) to provide a framework for understanding current research and directions for future research within this extended model. First, the authors present a framework for understanding diverse conceptual and operational definitions of meaning by distinguishing 2 levels of meaning, termed global meaning and situationalmeaning. Second, the authors use this framework to review and synthesize the literature on the functions of meaning in the coping process and propose a definition of meaningmaking that highlights the critical role of reappraisal. The authors specify the roles of attributions throughout the coping process and discuss implications for future research.

scholarly journals Generalizing Meaning-Making from One to Many: A Meso-Analytic Approach for Conceptualizing Group Constructive Development

2020 ◽  
pp. 17-30
Author(s):  
John E. Barbuto, Jr. ◽  
Megan Stevens
Keyword(s):  
Meaning Making ◽  
Social Process ◽  
Cognitive Structure ◽  
Team Development ◽  
Analytic Approach ◽  
Development Model ◽  
Meso Level ◽  
Constructive Development ◽  
Constructivist Perspective ◽  
Personal Understanding

This essay presents the foundation for a group and team development model from a constructivist perspective. This model elevates Kegan’s (1994) meaning-making theory to the meso level. Meaning-making involves not only the cognitive structure necessary to interpret the environment, but also encompasses inter- and intra-personal understanding, which, at the team level, is a social process that changes based on the members of the team. Several propositions are stated for further study.

Processing and Resolving Major Life Stressors: An Examination of Meaning-Making Strategies

2020 ◽  
Vol 44 (5) ◽  
pp. 1015-1024 ◽  
Author(s):  
Iris Lachnit ◽  
Crystal L. Park ◽  
Login S. George
Keyword(s):  
Meaning Making ◽  
Life Stressors ◽  
Major Life

scholarly journals Untroubling abortion: A discourse analysis of women’s accounts

2017 ◽  
Vol 27 (2) ◽  
pp. 225-242 ◽  
Author(s):  
Siân M Beynon-Jones
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Social Action ◽  
Language Use ◽  
Meaning Making ◽  
Analytic Approach ◽  
Discursive Psychology ◽  
Women’S Experiences ◽  
Women's Experiences ◽  
Growing Body

In this paper, I highlight key differences between a discourse analytic approach to women’s accounts of abortion and that taken by the growing body of research that seeks to explore and measure women’s experiences of abortion stigma. Drawing on critical analyses of the conceptualisation of stigma in other fields of healthcare, I suggest that research on abortion stigma often risks reifying it by failing to consider how identities are continually re-negotiated through language-use. In contrast, by attending to language as a form of social action, discursive psychology makes it possible to emphasise speakers’ capacity to construct “untroubled” (i.e. non-stigmatised) identities, while acknowledging that this process is constrained by the contexts in which talk takes place. My analysis applies these insights to interviews with women concerning their experiences of having an abortion in England. I highlight three forms of discursive work through which women navigate “trouble” in their accounts of abortion, and critically consider the resources available for meaning-making within this particular context of talk. In doing so, I aim to provoke reflection about the discursive frameworks through which women’s accounts of abortion are solicited and explored.

scholarly journals “Smiles and Laughs—All Teeth Intact”: A Cultural Perspective on Mediated Women’s Handball in Norway

2014 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 56-73 ◽  
Author(s):  
Trygve B. Broch
Keyword(s):  
Female Athletes ◽  
Meaning Making ◽  
Analytic Approach ◽  
Cultural Perspective ◽  
Sport Communication ◽  
The Media ◽  
Female Bodies

This article explores gendered sport communication in Norway. The data highlight Norwegian TV2’s live game commentaries of the 2009 women’s handball world championships, as well as live and studio commentary and journalistic reports concerning the Norwegian national women’s handball team from 2009 to 2013. The narrative-analytic approach is structural-hermeneutic and concerned with processes of meaning making. Instead of reading off gender/macrostructure in data, this project maps the semiotic culture structure of mediated women’s handball and shows how gendered meaning is creatively used to inform understandings of female handballers’ situated practices. The analysis first outlines the cultural binaries that constrain the media presentations of Norwegian women’s handball, then scrutinizes how gendered conceptions of sport and female athletes are used to understand this binary culture structure. Analytically revealed is a staging of Norwegian women’s handball that portrays successful and powerful female bodies’ contextual conduct. Norwegian women handballers are playing the aggressive and physically violent game in what is analyzed as a gender-appropriate manner.

scholarly journals Psychometric Properties of an Iranian Version of the Response to Stressful Experiences Scale (RSES)

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amin Mirzaee ◽  
Hamid Sharif Nia ◽  
Abbas Ebadi ◽  
Behnaz Dowran ◽  
Seyed -Hossein Salimi
Keyword(s):  
Psychometric Properties ◽  
Military Personnel ◽  
Convergent Validity ◽  
Stressful Life Events ◽  
Meaning Making ◽  
Active Coping ◽  
Face Validity ◽  
Cronbach’S Alpha ◽  
Cronbach's Alpha ◽  
Stressful Experiences

Abstract Objective: Few psychometric scales have been developed to measure resilience and related constructs such as Response to Stressful Experiences in military. This study aimed to translate and validate the Response to Stressful Experiences Scale (RSES), a measure of individual differences in cognitive, emotional, and behavioral responses to stressful life events in Iranian Military Personnel. Method: In this methodological study, 501 Military personnel were selected by convenience sampling from three military units in Tehran, Iran .The forward backward-procedure was applied to translate the questionnaire from English into Persian. Face validity, Content validity, construct validity (EFA, CFA) and convergent validity have been employed to validate the prepared scale. Cronbach’s alpha coefficients and the test-retest were used to assess the scale reliability. Results: By performing EFA on the first sample part (n = 300), the exploratory factor analysis showed that the present scale has three factors. The factors were called as active coping, meaning-making and flexibility, resiliency, according to their content and the research, which explained 37.5% of the overall extracted variance. CFA was performed on the second part of the sample (n = 201), to test the fitness of the 3-factor solution. The confirmatory factory analysis showed a moderate fit for the data (CFI = 0.930, CMIN/DF = 1.879, RMSEA =0.060). The 3-factors subscales were associated with the Connor– Davidson Resilience Scale (CD-RISC), indicating the good convergent validity of RSES. The internal consistency was acceptable (active coping=.0.761, meaning-making and flexibility=0.863, resiliency=0.865 and Cronbach's alpha of the total was 0.920). The ICC value of 0.91 ranging from 0.79 to 0.87 was found for the whole scale and the subscales. Conclusion: The findings suggest that the Persian version of the RSES has acceptable psychometric properties. Therefore, it can be used to measure Response to Stressful Experiences or resiliency in research and clinical settings.

Narrative story stem methodologies

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kimberly R. Kelly ◽  
Alison L. Bailey
Keyword(s):  
Meaning Making ◽  
Empirical Work ◽  
Developmental Outcomes ◽  
Historical Background ◽  
Mental Processes ◽  
Comprehensive Review ◽  
The Past ◽  
Narrative Story ◽  
Adolescents And Adults ◽  
Narrative Methodology

Abstract We review three decades of literature across multiple disciplines that demonstrate the efficacy of narrative story stem methodologies (NSSM) to elicit responses that are projective of mental processes and to reveal what would otherwise be too complex or sensitive to communicate. The review synthesizes evidence for the extensive and diverse utility of NSSM. To accomplish this, we provide theoretical framing and historical background, describe assessment methods, resulting data and analytic approaches, and chart the empirical work of the past decade that relates story stem narratives to a range of developmental outcomes, and meaning-making processes. This synthesis of cross-disciplinary research provides the first comprehensive review of a truly innovative narrative methodology and includes work across periods of development, representing research that has primarily focused on children with increasing emphasis on adolescents and adults.

Sign in / Sign up

Export Citation Format

Share Document