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The Meaning in Life Questionnaire: Assessing the Presence of and Search for Meaning in Life
- Michael F. Steger, P. Frazier, S. Oishi, M. Kaler
- Psychology
- 2006
Counseling psychologists often work with clients to increase their well-being as well as to decrease their distress. One important aspect of well-being, highlighted particularly in humanistic… Expand
The Curiosity and Exploration Inventory-II: Development, Factor Structure, and Psychometrics.
- T. Kashdan, M. Gallagher, +4 authors Michael F. Steger
- Psychology, Medicine
- Journal of research in personality
- 1 December 2009
Given curiosity's fundamental role in motivation, learning, and well-being, we sought to refine the measurement of trait curiosity with an improved version of the Curiosity and Exploration Inventory… Expand
Measuring Meaningful Work
- Michael F. Steger, Bryan J. Dik, R. Duffy
- Psychology
- 19 February 2012
Many people desire work that is meaningful. However, research in this area has attracted diverse ideas about meaningful work (MW), accompanied by an equally disparate collection of ways of assessing… Expand
Experiencing meaning in life: Optimal functioning at the nexus of well-being, psychopathology, and spirituality.
- Michael F. Steger
- Psychology
- 2012
Meaning in life has been a topic of fertile empirical inquiry for several decades. Over this span of time a large, loosely connected body of research findings has emerged. In this chapter, an… Expand
Experiential avoidance as a generalized psychological vulnerability: comparisons with coping and emotion regulation strategies.
- T. Kashdan, V. Barrios, J. Forsyth, Michael F. Steger
- Psychology, Medicine
- Behaviour research and therapy
- 1 September 2006
Extending previous work, we conducted two studies concerning the toxic influences of experiential avoidance (EA) as a core mechanism in the development and maintenance of psychological distress, and… Expand
Meaning in Life: One Link in the Chain From Religiousness to Well-Being
- Michael F. Steger, P. Frazier
- Psychology
- 1 October 2005
Meaning in life has been identified as a potential mediator of the link between religiousness and psychological health. The authors tested this hypothesis in 2 studies, using multiple methods and… Expand
Understanding the search for meaning in life: personality, cognitive style, and the dynamic between seeking and experiencing meaning.
- Michael F. Steger, T. Kashdan, B. A. Sullivan, D. Lorentz
- Psychology, Medicine
- Journal of personality
- 1 April 2008
Although several theories assert that understanding the search for meaning in life is important, empirical research on this construct is sparse. Three studies provide the first extensive effort to… Expand
Meaning in life across the life span: Levels and correlates of meaning in life from emerging adulthood to older adulthood
- Michael F. Steger, S. Oishi, T. Kashdan
- Psychology
- 1 January 2009
Meaning in life is thought to be important to well-being throughout the human life span. We assessed the structure, levels, and correlates of the presence of meaning in life, and the search for… Expand
Development and Validation of the Calling and Vocation Questionnaire (CVQ) and Brief Calling Scale (BCS)
- Bryan J. Dik, Brandy M. Eldridge, Michael F. Steger, R. Duffy
- Psychology
- 24 January 2012
Research on work as a calling is limited by measurement concerns. In response, the authors introduce the multidimensional Calling and Vocation Questionnaire (CVQ) and the Brief Calling scale (BCS),… Expand
Calling and Work-Related Outcomes: Career Commitment as a Mediator.
- R. Duffy, Bryan J. Dik, Michael F. Steger
- Psychology
- 1 April 2011
Abstract The current study tested the hypothesis that experiencing a calling to a particular career would relate positively to work-related outcomes, and that these relations would be mediated by… Expand