Making Sense of the Meaning Literature: An Integrative Review of Meaning Making and Its Effects on Adjustment to Stressful Life Events
Making Sense of the Meaning Literature: An Integrative Review of Meaning Making and Its Effects on Adjustment to Stressful Life Events
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DOI：
10.1037/a0018301
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发表时间：
2010-03-01
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22.4
通讯作者：
Park, Crystal L.
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作者：
Park, Crystal L.
在压力生活事件的背景下，对意义和意义创造的兴趣不断增长，但研究受到概念和方法限制的阻碍。在借鉴现有理论的基础上，作者首先提出了一个完整的意义生成模型。该模型区分了全局意义和情境意义的构念，以及“意义制造努力”和“意义制造”的构念，并详细阐述了这些构念中的子构念。使用该模型，作者回顾了关于压力事件适应背景下意义的实证研究，概述了迄今为止已经建立的内容，并评估了当前实证工作的优势和劣势。结果表明，关于意义和意义生成的理论发展迅速，但实证研究未能跟上这些发展，导致丰富而抽象的理论与实证检验之间存在显著差距。鉴于目前的实证研究结果，意义生成模型的某些方面似乎得到了很好的支持，但其他方面则没有得到很好的支持，意义生成努力和意义生成的质量可能至少与它们的数量一样重要。本文最后对今后的研究提出了具体建议。
Interest in meaning and meaning making in the context of stressful life events continues to grow, but research is hampered by conceptual and methodological limitations. Drawing on current theories, the author first presents an integrated model of meaning making. This model distinguishes between the constructs of global and situational meaning and between "meaning-making efforts" and "meaning made," and it elaborates subconstructs within these constructs. Using this model, the author reviews the empirical research regarding meaning in the context of adjustment to stressful events, Outlining what has been established to date and evaluating the strengths and weaknesses of current empirical work. Results suggest that theory on meaning and meaning making has developed apace, but empirical research has failed to keep up with these developments, creating a significant gap between the rich but abstract theories and empirical tests of them. Given current empirical findings, some aspects of the meaning-making model appear to be well supported but others are not, and the quality of meaning-making efforts and meanings made may be at least as important as their quantity. This article concludes with specific suggestions for future research.