From Meaning-Making to Finding Meaning in Creating a Complex Blended Family:

2018 ◽  
pp. 245-276
Author(s):  
Stephanie Larrue ◽  
Christian Bellehumeur
2016 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 31-43 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roger Lien ◽  
Kristian Firing ◽  
Mons Bendixen ◽  
Leif Edward Ottesen Kennair

Abstract This qualitative study explores the meaning-making process of veterans to address the positive aspects of military service in international operations. Thirteen veterans from a Force Protection Unit in Norway were interviewed about their deployment to Afghanistan. A thematic analysis revealed three main themes reflecting meaningful aspects of the service. “Confirmation of ability” refers to finding meaning by coping with stressful situations and being recognized for it. “Cohesion of peers” refers to finding meaning by belonging to a team and giving mutual support within the team, such as backing up each other and caring. “Significance of effort” refers to finding meaning by seeing their efforts as a contribution, as well as by receiving recognition and gaining status for their efforts. The analysis also revealed accompanying themes of inconsistencies, which in turn activated different coping strategies. The findings have been substantiated through a functional exposition of meaning: purpose, value, efficacy, and self-worth, as advocated by Baumeister (1991), and are discussed in the context of previous research and a theoretical concept of meaning making. Steps for future research are proposed.


2020 ◽  
pp. 105413732096388
Author(s):  
Clint-Michael Reneau ◽  
Berenecea Johnson Eanes

Globally, educators approach screens full of faces in a scene becoming more common in daily practice. This harrowing time of pandemic has opened a range of emotions not only for our students, but within ourselves due to physical distancing and the increased use of technology to engage one another. As a result, embracing our vulnerability and recognizing how grief is impacting our lives and our work is necessary at this time. Using an ethnological approach, the authors explore issues of loss, grief, meaning-making, and the benefits of sharing our experience with each other. If we can name it, perhaps we can manage it. Written from the perspective of post-secondary education in the United States, this article is intended for staff, faculty, and administrators who work in post-secondary education.


2020 ◽  
pp. 301-312
Author(s):  
Andrea Lorenzo Baldini

How will artistic exhibitions function in the post-pandemic world? Visiting museums and galleries is a health hazard. 六/6: Finding Meaning is an attempt to offer an alternative. It embodies a novel exhibiting format called the expanded exhibition, which inhabits an expanded public space, between the physical and the digital. 六/6shows us that, once liberated spatially, exhibitions can be effective tools of meaning-making and social change even in a post-pandemic world. By exploiting the interplay between the digital and the physical domains, expanded exhibitions such as 六/6 can build alternatives of cultural production that can cope with social distancing, while being participatory, democratic with respect to access, and politically transformative by displacing the colonialist hierarchy center/periphery.


2020 ◽  
pp. 194855062094268
Author(s):  
Joseph Maffly-Kipp ◽  
Patricia Flanagan ◽  
Jinhyung Kim ◽  
Grace Rivera ◽  
Matthew D. Friedman ◽  
...  

The purpose of this study was to examine the role of meaning-making in response to collective trauma. In the aftermath of Hurricane Harvey, we recruited participants ( N = 570) to test the hypothesis that searching for meaning (vs. finding meaning) in the event would be associated with greater (vs. lower) levels of acute and post-traumatic stress symptoms. We further hypothesized that searching for (and finding) meaning in the event would predict global search for (and presence of) meaning in life (MIL). Consistent with our hypotheses, we found that searching for meaning in the event was associated with greater psychological distress at both time points and predicted global search for MIL at one of the time points. Finding meaning in the event was unexpectedly not consistently associated with lower levels of stress; however, across analyses, finding meaning in Hurricane Harvey was associated with greater levels of MIL. Implications and possible explanations for these unexpected results are discussed.


PsycCRITIQUES ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 58 (12) ◽  
Author(s):  
William E. Smythe
Keyword(s):  

2008 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ed De St. Aubin ◽  
Abbey Valvano ◽  
Terri Deroon-Cassini ◽  
Jim Hastings ◽  
Patricia Horn

Sign in / Sign up

Export Citation Format

Share Document