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Exploring Existential Meaning
Optimizing Human Development Across the Life Span

Edited by:

Gary T. Reker - Trent University, Canada
Kerry Chamberlain - Massey University, Albany, New Zealand

Other Titles in:
Existential Counseling

240 pages | SAGE Publications, Inc

Both implicit and existential meaning are important constructs in fully understanding human experience. The editors of this volume present a forum for an array of viewpoints and recent research that address the notion of optimal human growth.

James E Birren

Foreword

Gary T Reker and Kerry Chamberlain

Introduction

PART ONE: THEORETICAL AND CONCEPTUAL ISSUES

Gary M Kenyon

Philosophical Foundations of Existential Meaning

Hubert J M Hermans

Meaning as Movement

The Relativity of the Mind

Gary T Reker

Theoretical Perspective, Dimensions, and Measurement of Existential Meaning

PART TWO: RESEARCH ON EXISTENTIAL MEANING

Nancy Van Ranst and Alfons Marcoen

Structural Components of Personal Meaning in Life and their Relationship with Death Attitudes and Coping Mechanisms in Late Adulthood

Kay O'Connor and Kerry Chamberlain

Dimensions and Discourses of Meaning in Life

Approaching Meaning from Qualitiative Perspectives

Dominique L Debats

An Inquiry into Existential Meaning

Theoretical, Clinincal and Phenomenal Perspectives

Freya Dittman-Kohli and Gerben J Westerhof

The Personal Meaning System in a Life-Span Perspective

Edward Prager, Rivka Savaya and Leora Bar-Tur

The Development of a Culturally Sensitive Measure of Sources of Life Meaning

PART THREE: APPLICATIONS AND INTERVENTIONS

Carol J Farran, Karen Lowe Graham and Dimitra Loukissa

Finding Meaning in Caregivers of Persons with Alzheimer's Disease

African American and White Caregivers' Perspectives

Doris D Coward

Making Meaning within the Experience of Life-Threatening Illness

Susan H McFadden

Religion and Meaning in Late Life

David Guttmann

Logotherapeutic and `Depth Psychology' Approaches to Meaning and Psychotherapy

PART FOUR: OVERVIEW AND NEW DIRECTIONS

Gary T Reker and Kerry Chamberlain

Existential Meaning

Reflections and Directions

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Gary T. Reker

Gary T. Reker, Ph.D. was born in Hamm, West Germany in 1942. He obtained his B.A. (1965) from McMaster University and his M.A.Sc. (1970) and Ph.D. (1973) from the University of Waterloo. He has been at Trent University since 1972 and retired as Professor Emeritus in Psychology in 2008. He is married to Dorothy and they have three grown daughters and six grandchildren.... More About Author

Kerry Chamberlain

Kerry Chamberlain is Professor of Social and Health Psychology at Massey University in Auckland, New Zealand. He is coeditor (with Michael Murray) of Qualitative Health Psychology: Theories and Methods (SAGE), coauthor (with Antonia Lyons) of Health Psychology: A Critical Introduction (Cambridge), and series editor (with Antonia Lyons) for Critical Approaches to Health (Routledge). He serves on the editorial boards of several journals and has published widely on health issues and qualitative research. His current research interests are in poverty, health and illness, medicalisation, food, and the mundane, and innovative methods for... More About Author

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