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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"Meaning Making Model"”.
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For the love of country ham: a qualitative analysis of cardiac event survivors
… interviews. Using narrative theory and the Meaning-Making Model, this study found that individuals share their health narratives in ways that demonstrate the difficulty of integrating heart healthy lifestyles post-event. Specifically, participants demonstrated how the Meaning-Making Model is …
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Relation between perceived injustice and distress in cancer: meaning making and acceptance of cancer as mediators
… and theory (i.e., Just World Theory, Park’s Meaning Making Model, and Loneliness Theory), there are multiple ways to conceptualize the relationship between perceived injustice related to the cancer experience and distress. The purpose of this project was to compare two theory-based …
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Religiousness, Coping, and Locus of Control as Predictors of Anxiety.
… order to evaluate the cognitive appraisal and meaning-making components of the Transactional Model (Lazarus & Folkman, 1984) and Meaning-making Model (Park & Folkman, 1997) of coping, several specific forms of appraisal and coping strategies were analyzed in the present study. It has been …
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The experience of living with traumatic bereavement: an interpretative phenomenological analysis
… bereavement leading to a grappling with meaning, and the third, traumatic bereavement having a significant relational component. Participants are seen to experience a transformation that transcends post traumatic growth. Findings are discussed in light of existing literature and are …
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Meanings made, attachment, perceived closeness and complicated grief in military service members
… with a deeper understanding of the role of meaning in the development of complicated grief, using attachment theory and meaning making model as a guide. It was hypothesized that insecure attachment and perceived closeness would be positively associated with complicated grief, meanings made …
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Beneath the Beauty: A Mixed Method Approach to Examining Identity Negotiation Among Asian Transracial Adoptees
<p>Making sense of one’s identity is an integral part of the human experience. This study examines identity negotiation and sense-making processes among individuals who have particularly complex identities: Asian transracial adoptees. In the past six decades, more than 280,000 infants and children …
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A Widow’s Hope in Late-Life Spousal Loss: A Biblical Response to Meaning-Making and Continuing Spiritual Bonds
… experiences that can cause a loss of meaning and purpose in life. Bereavement brings mortality to the forefront, raising questions related to life’s existential meanings. In recent years, there has been a broadening interest in the role of spiritual beliefs in coping with the death of …
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"It really kind of like cuts my existence into two": an interpretative phenomenological analysis of the experience of adults with sickle cell disease receiving curative Haematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation (HSCT)
… of SCD over time influenced participants in making the decision to proceed with HSCT, despite the risks, with all hoping for a more ‘normal life’; (2) ‘Travelling through Purgatorio’ – documents the challenging experiences participants had, how they coped, and their attitudes towards …
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Meaningfulness as a predictor of intergenerational commitment
… Previous research has utilised the Investment Model Scale (Rusbult, 1980) in order to understand commitment processes and the constructs satisfaction, quality of alternatives and investment have been identified as key determinants of commitment in romantic contexts. In the present study however …