What is it about?
Meaning and happiness have a very close relationship. They both play an important role in our well-being and overall functioning. Maintaining coherence between what a person believes and how they behave helps them feel stable. The role of meaning in maintaining psychological stability is critical as it is through meaning, through sense making that a person can connect their thoughts to their actions. Happiness is an indication that there is coherence between a person´s thoughts and actions as they are able to make meaningful interpretations of their lived experience.
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Why is it important?
Meaning and happiness are intrlinked and they are both necessary processes that support wellbeing.
Perspectives
The publication provides a unifying model of meaning and happiness that have been previously dichotomized in the literature.
Anastasia Besika
Universitat Zurich
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This page is a summary of: An everlasting love: The relationship of happiness and meaning, Frontiers in Psychology, March 2023, Frontiers,
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1046503.
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