The measurement of meaning in illness

The Relation of Perceived Meaning of Life, Meaning of Illness and Anxious-Depressive Symptoms among Cancer Patients

“…Perceived meaning of life, measured with the Meaning in Life after Cancer Scale, shows negative and significant correlations with all three variables. These results are in accordance with the literature (MASCARO & ROSEN 2004;MASCARO, ROSEN & MOREY 2006) and these relationships hold true of cancer disease (BRADY et al 1999;FIFE 1995;JIM & ANDERSEN 2007). In our study we found that results are dependent on the applied instrument measuring meaningfulness.…”

The Relation of Perceived Meaning of Life, Meaning of Illness and Anxious-Depressive Symptoms among Cancer Patients

“…Perceived meaning of life, measured with the Meaning in Life after Cancer Scale, shows negative and significant correlations with all three variables. These results are in accordance with the literature (MASCARO & ROSEN 2004;MASCARO, ROSEN & MOREY 2006) and these relationships hold true of cancer disease (BRADY et al 1999;FIFE 1995;JIM & ANDERSEN 2007). In our study we found that results are dependent on the applied instrument measuring meaningfulness.…”

Utility of a Partner Communication Scale and a Personal Meaning Scale in Newly Diagnosed HIV-Infected Persons

“…Cronbach’s alpha for the complete Lepore Social Constraint measure was .88 and for the complete Fife Constructed Meaning Scale was .72. These results were comparable to the Cronbach’s alphas found in the first populations in which these measures were used: .79 for the Lepore measure and .81 for the Fife scale (Fife, 1995; Lepore & Helgeson, 1998). Further, we found evidence of construct validity for the scales, since they generally correlated as expected with other measured traits.…”

Breast Cancer as an Embodied Life Event: A Synthesis of Research and Theory and Directions for Intervention and Future Work

“…Conversely, women in the control group had never experienced the life-altering feeling of being diagnosed with cancer and therefore may have interpreted their satisfaction with the body through different lenses. Reaby et al's findings are consistent with prior work suggesting that when individuals re-frame an illness so as to cast it in a positive light, they often experience improved coping outcomes (Fife, 1995). In this vein, some breast cancer patients have reported a process in which they invoked their illness experience as a platform for re-evaluating their life priorities and/or forging new identities (Hall, 1998).…”

The Relation of Perceived Meaning of Life, Meaning of Illness and Anxious-Depressive Symptoms among Cancer Patients

“…Perceived meaning of life, measured with the Meaning in Life after Cancer Scale, shows negative and significant correlations with all three variables. These results are in accordance with the literature (MASCARO & ROSEN 2004;MASCARO, ROSEN & MOREY 2006) and these relationships hold true of cancer disease (BRADY et al 1999;FIFE 1995;JIM & ANDERSEN 2007). In our study we found that results are dependent on the applied instrument measuring meaningfulness.…”

Utility of a Partner Communication Scale and a Personal Meaning Scale in Newly Diagnosed HIV-Infected Persons

“…Cronbach’s alpha for the complete Lepore Social Constraint measure was .88 and for the complete Fife Constructed Meaning Scale was .72. These results were comparable to the Cronbach’s alphas found in the first populations in which these measures were used: .79 for the Lepore measure and .81 for the Fife scale (Fife, 1995; Lepore & Helgeson, 1998). Further, we found evidence of construct validity for the scales, since they generally correlated as expected with other measured traits.…”

Breast Cancer as an Embodied Life Event: A Synthesis of Research and Theory and Directions for Intervention and Future Work

“…Conversely, women in the control group had never experienced the life-altering feeling of being diagnosed with cancer and therefore may have interpreted their satisfaction with the body through different lenses. Reaby et al's findings are consistent with prior work suggesting that when individuals re-frame an illness so as to cast it in a positive light, they often experience improved coping outcomes (Fife, 1995). In this vein, some breast cancer patients have reported a process in which they invoked their illness experience as a platform for re-evaluating their life priorities and/or forging new identities (Hall, 1998).…”

The Relation of Perceived Meaning of Life, Meaning of Illness and Anxious-Depressive Symptoms among Cancer Patients

“…Perceived meaning of life, measured with the Meaning in Life after Cancer Scale, shows negative and significant correlations with all three variables. These results are in accordance with the literature (MASCARO & ROSEN 2004;MASCARO, ROSEN & MOREY 2006) and these relationships hold true of cancer disease (BRADY et al 1999;FIFE 1995;JIM & ANDERSEN 2007). In our study we found that results are dependent on the applied instrument measuring meaningfulness.…”

Utility of a Partner Communication Scale and a Personal Meaning Scale in Newly Diagnosed HIV-Infected Persons

“…Cronbach’s alpha for the complete Lepore Social Constraint measure was .88 and for the complete Fife Constructed Meaning Scale was .72. These results were comparable to the Cronbach’s alphas found in the first populations in which these measures were used: .79 for the Lepore measure and .81 for the Fife scale (Fife, 1995; Lepore & Helgeson, 1998). Further, we found evidence of construct validity for the scales, since they generally correlated as expected with other measured traits.…”

Breast Cancer as an Embodied Life Event: A Synthesis of Research and Theory and Directions for Intervention and Future Work

“…Conversely, women in the control group had never experienced the life-altering feeling of being diagnosed with cancer and therefore may have interpreted their satisfaction with the body through different lenses. Reaby et al's findings are consistent with prior work suggesting that when individuals re-frame an illness so as to cast it in a positive light, they often experience improved coping outcomes (Fife, 1995). In this vein, some breast cancer patients have reported a process in which they invoked their illness experience as a platform for re-evaluating their life priorities and/or forging new identities (Hall, 1998).…”