Assessing meaning and meaning making in the context of stressful life events: Measurement tools and approaches

Stress-Management Strategies among First-Year Students at a South African University: A Qualitative Study

“…Meaning-making processes could result in numerous meanings that are derived following stressful experiences. Examples of such meaning are identifying positive aspects and altered optimistic global beliefs about life experiences (Park & George, 2013).…”

Value systems and centrality of religiosity as predictors of non-religious and religious coping with stress in early adulthood.

“…As values and religiousness are interconnected, individuals can draw on their value system and religious beliefs to change the meaning of a stressful transaction. Values and religion to some extent enable people to discover and formulate reinterpretations of stressful events, which in turn entail positive reappraisals of the events and lead to stress reduction [22,42]. Therefore, positive reappraisals formed on a basis of one's important values, religious beliefs and activities help individuals to more effectively focus on their mental resources while coping with stressful events.…”

“…Examining values in coping within the meaning-making model, Park found that values and goals positively shaped the ways in which individuals deal with stressful situations, influencing their adjustment and coping strategies [21,22]. Research also showed beneficial functions of different values in coping.…”

“…By revealing different types of associations between values, religiousness and non-religious and religious coping styles, the study contributes to the ongoing discussion on psychological factors that influence coping processes. The way in which young adults construct value systems and religiousness Archives of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, 2015; 3: [21][22][23][24][25][26][27][28][29][30][31] is essential to their abilities to face challenging situations and cope effectively with their adverse outcomes. These findings may also be helpful for mental health professionals who might become more attentive to religion as a motivational factor in the context of crisis-related struggles in early adulthood.…”

Spiritual Dimensions of Illness and Healing: The 4th Annual Medicine and Religion Conference

“…This may take the form of "spiritual care teams" as practiced with Adventist Health Care 2 and allowing space and presence in order for the suffering to create meaning in the face of illness. 3 In the second plenary session entitled In what sense is illness a spiritual and/or religious experience?, Rabbi Saul Berman, JD (Yeshiva University), representing a Jewish perspective, proposed that spirituality in the face of illness gives an awareness of the presence of God, highlights the ultimate set of values and virtues over which humans govern their lives, and gives opportunity to experience the effects of sin and, in healing or comfort, the experience of divine love -the way things ought to be. Ahsan M. Arozullah, MD, MPH (Astellas Pharma & Darul Qasim), representing a Muslim perspective, highlighted the divine will in cause of both illness and cure, but that the cause and effect for particular cases remains indefinable.…”