Positive Psychology in Search for Meaning

What are the ways in which we can understand the meaning of the psychology of meaning in people’s lives? In the last century, mainstream psychology has largely neglected the topic of meaning. More recently, the concept has become an academically legitimate one within positive psychology and in some other speciality areas of psychology.

Key Features

• This book contains a collection of theoretical, methodological, and empirical papers written by acknowledged experts.
• The authors systematically work on the problems of personal meaning within the positive psychology framework.
• It investigates the possibilities and limitations of a scientific study of personal meaning.
• New perspectives that this concept brings to the field are explored.

Additional Information

This book was originally published as a special issue of The Journal of Positive Psychology.