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Objective: Posttrauma adjustment theories postulate that intense stressors violate people s beliefs about the world and perceived ability to achieve valued goals. Failure to make meaning from traumatic events exacerbates negative adjustment (e.g., PTSD), whereas success facilitates positive adjustment (e.g., stress–related growth). The current study aimed to test this model of direct and indirect effects among a sample of veterans. Method: Vietnam veterans (N = 130) completed assessment measures in an online survey format. Participants were largely male (91%) and Caucasian (93%) with a mean age of 61 years. Results: Results supported basic model tenets, linking military stress severity to violations of beliefs and goals. In the final model, only goal violations carried indirect effects of severity on PTSD symptoms. Presence of and search for meaning carried a portion of the indirect effects between goal violations and both PTSD and stress–related growth. Conclusion: Findings suggest that traumatic stress may disrupt people s goals and meaning–making may center on these disruptions. C 2014 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J. Clin. Psychol. 71:105 116, 2015. ; http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/jclp.22121/full ; http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/jclp.22121

Objective: Posttrauma adjustment theories postulate that intense stressors violate people s beliefs about the world and perceived ability to achieve valued goals. Failure to make meaning from traumatic events exacerbates negative adjustment (e.g., PTSD), whereas success facilitates positive adjustment (e.g., stress–related growth). The current study aimed to test this model of direct and indirect effects among a sample of veterans. Method: Vietnam veterans (N = 130) completed assessment measures in an online survey format. Participants were largely male (91%) and Caucasian (93%) with a mean age of 61 years. Results: Results supported basic model tenets, linking military stress severity to violations of beliefs and goals. In the final model, only goal violations carried indirect effects of severity on PTSD symptoms. Presence of and search for meaning carried a portion of the indirect effects between goal violations and both PTSD and stress–related growth. Conclusion: Findings suggest that traumatic stress may disrupt people s goals and meaning–making may center on these disruptions. C 2014 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J. Clin. Psychol. 71:105 116, 2015. ; http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/jclp.22121/full ; http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/jclp.22121

AbstractDeveloping a sense of purpose is both salient and desirable for adolescents, and purpose in people's lives and careers is associated with both general and work‐related well‐being. However, little is known about whether purpose can be encouraged through school‐based interventions. This article reports the results of a quasi‐experimental pilot study and follow‐up focus group that evaluated Make Your Work Matter, a three‐module, school‐based intervention designed to help adolescent youth explore, discover, and enact a sense of purpose in their early career development. Participants were eighth‐grade students. Compared to the control group, the intervention group reported increases in several outcomes related to purpose‐centered career development, such as a clearer sense of career direction; a greater understanding of their interests, strengths, and weaknesses; and a greater sense of preparedness for the future. However, no significant differences were found on items directly related to purpose, calling, and prosocial attitudes. These results inform the ongoing development of Make Your Work Matter and other school‐based career interventions and pave the way for larger‐scale trials of such purpose‐promoting intervention strategies.

Purpose: Despite the theoretical and empirical significance of positive aspects of caregiving in caregiver well-being, relatively little is known regarding family-related predictors of caregiver positivity. This study examines whether patient-family communication (p-f communication) mediates the relation between family hardiness and caregiver positivity and whether the mediating effects of p-f communication are moderated by the levels of caregiver depression and anxiety. Design/Sample: This study used secondary data obtained from a large-scale cross-sectional national survey conducted in South Korea. Participants were 544 spousal cancer patient-caregiver dyads recruited from the National Cancer Center and nine government-designated regional cancer centers in South Korea. Methods: To test the hypotheses, a simple mediation model and two moderated mediation tests were conducted using the PROCESS macro for SPSS. Findings: Higher family hardiness was related to higher p-f positive communication and higher caregiver positivity. The effects of family hardiness were partially mediated by p-f communication, controlling for caregiver sex, education, health status, depression and anxiety, time spent caregiving, and patient depression and anxiety, cancer stage, and time since diagnosis. The mediating effects of p-f communication were not significantly moderated by caregiver depression and anxiety. Conclusions/Implications: Health care professionals could consider p-f communication as a reasonable target of intervention to increase caregiver positivity, even for caregivers with heightened depression and anxiety

This is an open access book. Meaning in Life (MIL) International Conference 2022, "Cultivating, Promoting, and Enhancing Meaning in Life Across Cultures and Life Span" will be held 0n 22-25 June 2022, Onsite & Live Online, at The Hong Kong Shue Yan University, Hong Kong, China. The concept of meaning in life (MIL) has recently earned a renaissance of interest. Although MIL has always been framed as significant for human survival, it has simultaneously been portrayed as chronically lacking in people's lives. Furthermore, though MIL has been seen as a universal need, it is also highly idiosyncratic. These paradoxes of MIL being a basic necessity but also a rare commodity, and as being universal yet idiosyncratic, have driven the quest for meaning throughout history and across disciplines. The COVID-19 pandemic has not only been changing and impacting the ways we live, but also initiates us to quest more about what still makes life meaningful in this chaotic, challenging, and uncertain world? The increasing quest for MIL provides the driver for meaning-enhancing interventions and meaning-centered practices, but the efficacy of these interventions is influenced by cultural and developmental moderators. Thus, the MIL International Conference 2022 will focus on the theme of cultivating, promoting, and enhancing meaning in life across cultures and life span, and welcomes paper presentations that share and discuss empirical-based and evidence-based MIL research, practice, and applications.