Longing to Belong: Needing to be Needed in a World in Need

Penne, Shirley Le

doi:10.1007/s12115-017-0185-y

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“…Second, it is assumed that a typical human mind can assess situations in terms of what they imply for being unneeded versus being needed in social terms. A sense of being needed is defined in the present study as the perception of the extent to which one contributes to satisfying the needs of others; it is a sense of indispensability and social worthiness (Le Penne, 2017). Empirically, feeling needed has been found to be positively correlated with perceived meaning in life and negatively correlated with depressive symptoms (Fuligni et al, 2022), and the need to be needed is assumed to be a main motive behind concern and activity devoted to contributing to others and society (Moieni et al, 2020).…”

Section: Theoretical Framework and Hypothesesmentioning

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What is it like to be idle versus busy for a service machine?

Söderlund

2023

Psychology and Marketing

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Customers have since long received service from various machines, and this development is expected to accelerate when AI‐powered synthetic agents—such as chatbots and embodied service robots—become more common. Existing research on customers' interactions with service machines is typically focused on perceptions of machine attributes when the machine is busy. However, many machines are idle for a considerable time (i.e., they are not used), and little is known about consumer perceptions of machine idleness—despite the fact that idle machine behavior can contribute to the user experience, too. In the present study, it is assumed that (a) idleness and busyness represent differently valenced states in a human‐to‐human context (i.e., idleness is more negatively charged than busyness for most humans). It is also assumed that (b) anthropomorphism can occur in relation to a service machine, and that (c) beliefs about idleness and busyness from a human‐to‐human context can carry over and inform views of machines' minds. Three experiments were conducted to explore these assumptions, and they show that an idle service machine is attributed less positively charged mind states than a busy service machine. The results also show that such attribution activities affect the overall evaluation of the service machine.

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What is it like to be idle versus busy for a service machine?

Söderlund

2023

Psychology and Marketing

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“…Belonging in the existential sense is certainly facilitated by social inclusion, but it can also be enabled in other ways, e.g. through responsibility and caring [ 28 , 29 ], environmental or political engagement [ 30 ], or the feeling body [ 31 ].…”

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The Meaning and Purpose Scales (MAPS): development and multi-study validation of short measures of meaningfulness, crisis of meaning, and sources of purpose

Schnell,

Danbolt

2023

BMC Psychol

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Background Meaning in life is multidimensional. It encompasses different qualities of meaning, such as meaningfulness, crisis of meaning, or existential indifference, as well as the sources from which people draw meaning, or purpose. For both research and practice, it is of high value to know not only the extent of meaningfulness, or its absence, but also its sources. How do these relate to meaningfulness and mental health? Are they accessible to people of different sociodemographic and economic backgrounds alike? For therapeutic and counseling practice, knowledge of experiences and sources of meaning is needed to support a clearer self-understanding in patients or clients and to encourage them to make authentic life choices. The Meaning and Purpose Scales (MAPS) presented here enable researchers and practitioners to gain insights into these dimensions of meaning in life, and, with only 23 items, to do so in a short time. Methods Using five independent and two follow-up samples with a total N of 7,500, this paper examined the MAPS’ internal consistency, test-retest reliability, and convergent, divergent, criterion, factorial, and predictive validity. Results Principal axis factoring identified two meaning scales, Meaningfulness and Crisis of Meaning, and five purpose scales, Sustainability, Faith, Security, Community, and Personal Growth. The scales proved consistent, stable over four weeks and two months, and valid in multiple respects. In a representative German population sample, Personal Growth, Sustainability, and Community exhibited large, Faith and Security medium positive relationships with Meaningfulness, whereas Crisis of Meaning showed small to moderate negative correlations. Meaningfulness was positively, and Crisis of Meaning negatively predicted by age, partnership, parenthood, and religious affiliation. Financial hardship correlated positively with Crisis of Meaning and negatively with Meaningfulness, Community, and Personal Growth. Meaningfulness and Crisis of Meaning explained 21%, the sources of purpose 6% of additional variance in general mental distress (PHQ-4), beyond sociodemographics. Except for Faith (unrelated), all sources exhibited moderate negative correlations with the PHQ-4. Conclusion As this series of studies demonstrates, the MAPS provide a highly economic and valid assessment of two qualities of meaning, Meaningfulness and Crisis of Meaning, and five sources of purpose: Sustainability, Faith, Security, Community, and Personal Growth.

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“…These two psychological states are tied to individuals' need for attachment (Blake & Norton, 2014;Le Penne, 2017). Emptiness is defined as a sense of purposeless due to boredom and social alienation (Steger, 2017).…”

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We are in this together: sport brand involvement and fans’ well-being

Biscaia

et al. 2021

European Sport Management Quarterly

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Research Methods: Data were collected from sport fans (n = 770) in mainland China through an online survey. Machine learning-based model selection algorithms were used to optimize the balance between the predictive power and parsimoniousness of the empirical model. Bayesian structural equation modeling was performed to examine the effects of sport brand involvement, crisis management performance, and perceived togetherness on fans' sense of hope and emptiness. Results and Findings:The results indicate that fans' involvement with sport brands was positively associated with fans' psychological well-being. Sport brand involvement mitigated fans' perceived emptiness. This relationship was partially mediated by perceived togetherness but not by crisis management performance. Furthermore, sport brands' crisis management performance and perceived togetherness fully mediated the positive relationship between sport brand involvement and hope.Implications: This research contributes to theorizing the transformative role of sport brands in enhancing fans' psychological well-being. We offer an alternative view of sport branding literature by moving beyond fans' contributions to business outcomes to explore how sport brands may benefit fans' well-being. Findings highlight the importance of the transformative power of "we" in unifying sport brands and fans amid the uncertainty of the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Longing to Belong: Needing to be Needed in a World in Need

Cited by 8 publications

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What is it like to be idle versus busy for a service machine?

What is it like to be idle versus busy for a service machine?

The Meaning and Purpose Scales (MAPS): development and multi-study validation of short measures of meaningfulness, crisis of meaning, and sources of purpose

We are in this together: sport brand involvement and fans’ well-being

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