Pub Date : 2023-11-16DOI: 10.1080/10720537.2023.2280688
Mohammad Hossein Tehrani Zamani
In decision-making, a person moves from desire to action and from imagination to actualization. How the objects of intentionality and reality relate in this process determines the outcome. Thus, ev...
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Pub Date : 2023-11-14DOI: 10.1080/10720537.2023.2280629
Joel Vos
AbstractMany Indo-European languages refer to meaning in life with three groups of terms (e.g. vocation/significance/Bezeichnung, meaning/purpose/Meinung, sense/Sinn). These etymologies seem to refer to traditional, functionalistic and critical-intuitive/phenomenological approaches to life. This study aimed to develop and validate a psychometric instrument measuring traditional, functionalistic and critical-intuitive/phenomenological approaches to meaning in life. Eight experts developed consensus definitions and generated items for the Meaning Approach Scale (MAS) in a Delphi-study. A Three-Step-Test-Interview with eight participants, Confirmatory Factor Analysis and Item Response Theory in an informal survey of 108 participants, reduced the initial 56-item MAS-56 to MAS-45, with sub-scales for traditional, functionalistic and critical-intuitive/phenomenological approaches. The MAS-45 was validated in a survey of 1281 participants in 49 countries, with reliability, factor structure and correlations with other questionnaires as hypothesized. Traditional and functionalistic approaches correlated with negative affects, low quality-of-life and life satisfaction, whereas critical-intuitive/phenomenological approaches correlated with positive affects, quality-of-life and life satisfaction. Functionalistic approaches were reported more frequently in Western countries and traditional and critical-intuitive approaches in less Western countries. This study indicates the MAS-45 to be valid and reliable, differentiating three approaches to life. Individuals benefit most from a critical-intuitive/phenomenological approach, which therapists may consider exploring with clients.Keywords: Questionnaireexistentialwell-beingmeasurementpurpose in life Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).
{"title":"The Development and Validation of the Meaning Approach Scale: Traditional, Functionalistic and Critical-Intuitive Approaches to Meaning in Life","authors":"Joel Vos","doi":"10.1080/10720537.2023.2280629","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10720537.2023.2280629","url":null,"abstract":"AbstractMany Indo-European languages refer to meaning in life with three groups of terms (e.g. vocation/significance/Bezeichnung, meaning/purpose/Meinung, sense/Sinn). These etymologies seem to refer to traditional, functionalistic and critical-intuitive/phenomenological approaches to life. This study aimed to develop and validate a psychometric instrument measuring traditional, functionalistic and critical-intuitive/phenomenological approaches to meaning in life. Eight experts developed consensus definitions and generated items for the Meaning Approach Scale (MAS) in a Delphi-study. A Three-Step-Test-Interview with eight participants, Confirmatory Factor Analysis and Item Response Theory in an informal survey of 108 participants, reduced the initial 56-item MAS-56 to MAS-45, with sub-scales for traditional, functionalistic and critical-intuitive/phenomenological approaches. The MAS-45 was validated in a survey of 1281 participants in 49 countries, with reliability, factor structure and correlations with other questionnaires as hypothesized. Traditional and functionalistic approaches correlated with negative affects, low quality-of-life and life satisfaction, whereas critical-intuitive/phenomenological approaches correlated with positive affects, quality-of-life and life satisfaction. Functionalistic approaches were reported more frequently in Western countries and traditional and critical-intuitive approaches in less Western countries. This study indicates the MAS-45 to be valid and reliable, differentiating three approaches to life. Individuals benefit most from a critical-intuitive/phenomenological approach, which therapists may consider exploring with clients.Keywords: Questionnaireexistentialwell-beingmeasurementpurpose in life Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).","PeriodicalId":46674,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Constructivist Psychology","volume":"40 2","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134954079","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-11-08DOI: 10.1080/10720537.2023.2279722
Micah Ingle
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{"title":"Humanizing Psychosis – Explorations in the Phenomenology of ‘Urhomelessness’ <i>Review of Reconceptualizing schizophrenia: The phenomenology of urhomelessness</i> , edited by Sarah R. Kamens, Routledge, 2023. 292 pp. 9780367151713 (hardcover)","authors":"Micah Ingle","doi":"10.1080/10720537.2023.2279722","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10720537.2023.2279722","url":null,"abstract":"Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the authors.","PeriodicalId":46674,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Constructivist Psychology","volume":"342 5","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135393274","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-11-07DOI: 10.1080/10720537.2023.2279108
Silvia Caterina Maria Tomaino
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{"title":"Broadening Ideas and Practices in Therapy: The Importance of Questioning the “One Size Fits All” and Sustaining a Certain Amount of Confusion to Embrace Contemporary Challenges <i>Review of Practicing Therapy as Social Construction</i> , by Sheila McNamee, Emerson F. Rasera & Pedro Martins, SAGE Publishing, London, UK, 2023, 139 pp., ISBN 978-1-5297-6322-5 (paperback)","authors":"Silvia Caterina Maria Tomaino","doi":"10.1080/10720537.2023.2279108","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10720537.2023.2279108","url":null,"abstract":"Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).","PeriodicalId":46674,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Constructivist Psychology","volume":"306 5","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135475452","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-11-07DOI: 10.1080/10720537.2023.2279099
Tongping Yang, Chongzeng Bi, Liang Wu
AbstractThis study sought to clarify the mixed correlations between meaning search and life satisfaction observed among participants from collectivist cultures and to explore the possible underlying mechanisms. It was hypothesized that cultural identity may predict greater meaning search, and the effect of meaning search on life satisfaction may be moderated by individual-level collectivism. These hypotheses were tested with a cross-sectional design (Study 1) and a longitudinal design (Study 2). Study 1 (n = 954) revealed that cultural identity was associated with higher meaning search, and higher meaning search was associated with greater life satisfaction; collectivism moderated the latter association. Study 2 (n = 158) tested two types of meaning search: constructive meaning search and ruminative meaning search. Results from the half-longitudinal mediation analyses showed that T1 cultural identity positively predicted T2 constructive meaning search, and T1 constructive meaning search positively predicted T2 life satisfaction; these results did not hold for ruminative meaning search. Moderation analyses, again, demonstrated a moderating role of collectivism. As such, the positive relationship between meaning search and life satisfaction was held among participants with low collectivism, but not among those with high collectivism. This research echoes the call for testing accessible cultural mindsets and highlights the necessity of doing so.Keywords: Meaning searchcultural identitycollectivismlife satisfaction Disclosure statementThe authors have no relevant financial or non-financial interests to disclose.Data availability statementThe data that support the findings of this study are available from the corresponding author upon request.Additional informationFundingThis work was supported by the Natural Science Foundation of Chongqing, China [Grant number: CSTB2022NSCQ-MSX1012] and the National Social Science Fund of China [Grant number: 19BSH128].
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Pub Date : 2023-11-01DOI: 10.1080/10720537.2023.2276274
Mustafa Mohammed, Michael Braito, Maria Knobelsdorf, Helmut Hlavacs
According to the Dialogical Self Theory, there is a multiplicity of I-positions within the self in a dialogical relationship. Psychodrama refers to these positions as inner parts within the self. We propose an integration of both to create an intervention centered on unscripted intrapersonal role-playing of the I-positions for the purpose of meaning-making. We want less dominant or silenced I-positions to be heard and included in the dialogue. We illustrate this approach with a group of 24 adult participants who engaged in a reflective dialogue process to potentially change their attitudes and perspectives toward an exemplary topic of technological advancement. A mixed-method approach is applied to investigate the potential benefits of this intervention. In pre-and post-intervention, a questionnaire is used to gather self-reported attitudes with Likert-scale and open-ended questions to assess explicit attitudes and perspectives related to our exemplary case. We used a statistical test and thematic analysis to compare the results before and after the intervention. The qualitative results show a shift in perspectives. However, the quantitative results do not show statistical significance regarding attitude change. Furthermore, integrating quantitative and qualitative results shows a convergence of the findings in one group of participants while divergence in the other. Despite these results, the proposed interventional approach promises various potential applications.
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Pub Date : 2023-10-31DOI: 10.1080/10720537.2023.2276275
Maarit Arvaja
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Pub Date : 2023-10-11DOI: 10.1080/10720537.2023.2267151
Sabrina Cipolletta, Silvia Sommacale, Massimo Nucci, Elena Faccio
AbstractResearch on female same-sex relationships has predominantly considered a single partner’s perspective on couple satisfaction, and has compared same-sex couples with heterosexual couples. Drawing upon Personal Construct Theory, this study explores how identification, acceptance, commonality and sociality (mutual understanding) between two female same-sex partners are associated with the couple’s satisfaction. Forty Italian women involved in same-sex relationships completed the Partnership Questionnaire and 160 repertory grids involving the exchange grid method. A mixed-method analysis was conducted. Higher couple’s satisfaction was associated with higher identification with the partner but not with higher commonality and sociality, partner acceptance was associated with higher scores in tenderness. Perceived similarity was higher than commonality and sociality, and partner’s acceptance was higher than identification with her. Qualitative analysis heightened the centrality of the participants’ experience when compared with the dominant prejudice with regard to homosexuality and the tension between autonomy and fusion. This study revealed the importance of identification and acceptance in terms of couple’s satisfaction.Keywords: couple satisfactiondyadic analysisLGBTpersonal construct theoryrepertory gridsimilaritysociality Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).
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Pub Date : 2023-10-02DOI: 10.1080/10720537.2023.2265517
Luca Vanzago
AbstractPhenomenology places the experience of otherness at the core of its philosophical perspective. However, the meaning of this form of experience is complex and varies according to each thinker. Husserl started an investigation that led to many other different approaches, all related to that of the founding father, but also entertaining mutual connections between them. In this paper the outline of Husserl’s position is offered with some discussions, and then a sketch of Sartre’s, Merleau-Ponty’s and Levinas’s is provided in order to show some of the main issues involved in this question. Husserl outlines his position in an apparently paradoxical way, as he poses the problem of solipsism not so much to refute it, but to deepen it, radicalize it, and thus also identify an unexpected and fruitful solution. Faithful to the principle according to which the phenomenological science of experience must be “in the first person”, he thus assumes the paradox of solipsism, that is, the problem of how I can understand and experience the experience of another I, of an alter ego, to show that in fact this is not only plausible but also perfectly understandable. Otherness is thus seen to be not only a major problem of phenomenology, but the question concerning the foundation itself of this particular approach. The debate issued from Husserl’s original outline allowed other thinkers to deepen the question and bring the investigation further, toward a direction that directly involves other disciplines and is still debated among phenomenologists today.Keywords: Phenomenologysubjectivityothernessmind-body problemintersubjectivity Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).
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Pub Date : 2023-10-01DOI: 10.1080/10720537.2023.2248529
Leeav Sheena, Yogev Kivity, Sharon Shimshi, Rivka Tuval-Mashiach, Tuvia Peri
AbstractInnovative moments (IMs) in psychotherapy contradict or challenge clients’ maladaptive patterns of meaning associated with their suffering. IMs are receiving increased theoretical and empirical attention in psychotherapy research and are associated with symptomatic improvement. However, little is known about possible predictors of IMs and their impact beyond their association with outcomes. A therapeutic alliance (TA) that implies a collaborative bond between clients and therapists might set the stage for the occurrence of IMs. Additionally, the occurrence of IMs could serve as a relational experience within the session that strengthens the TA. Thus, in the present study, we examined the association over time between IMs and (i) TA, and (ii) functioning, in a time-limited case study with a good outcome. Furthermore, this study is one of the first to explore IMs in psychodynamic therapy (PDT). Transcriptions of ten randomly selected sessions of PDT of a 43-year-old male with dysthymia were coded using the innovative moment coding system. Self-report measures of function and TA were collected at each session. Data were analyzed using simulation modeling analysis. Consistent with good-outcome cases in other therapeutic approaches, high-level IMs (H-IMs) increased while low-level IMs (L-IMs) decreased throughout treatment. H-IMs predicted a change in functioning in the following session. Finally, H-IMs were associated with higher TA post-session, and specifically with agreement on treatment tasks. To conclude, moments of change in the client’s pattern of meaning are related to stronger TA and better treatment outcome. If replicated, these findings may provide important insights regarding the unfolding of therapeutic change.Keywords: Innovative moments in psychotherapytherapeutic alliancefunctional improvementpsychodynamic therapy Author contributionsLeeav Sheena, Department of Psychology, Bar Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel; Yogev Kivity, Department of Psychology, Bar Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel; Sharon Shimshi, Department of Psychology, Bar Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel; Rivka Tuval-Mashiach, Department of Psychology, Bar Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel; Tuvia Peri, Department of Psychology, Bar Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel; All authors report no conflicting interests.
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