This paper addresses the development of a 9-item Short Form of the Orientations to Happiness (OTH) Questionnaire (Peterson, Park, & Seligman, 2005) for German-speaking countries. This questionnaire measures three ways to happiness: life of pleasure, life ...
In this article we explore the impact of resistance resources and the sense of meaningfulness – the central component of the sense of coherence (SOC) – on retaining a health maintenance orientation. In this cross-sectional study, 170 rather healthy ...
Understanding understandingAbstract. In cognitive psychology the assumption is widespread that “Understanding” means the transformation of a verbal code into propositions of first order predicate calculus, into a “propositional code”. This idea is ...
Abstract. Control over business trips has been considered an important resource for frequent business travelers. Building on past research and conservation of resources theory, this two-wave study among 210 frequent business travelers investigated whether ...
Measuring meaning-based coping and life attitudes. Psychometric evaluation of the German version of the Life Attitude Profile-Revised (LAP-R) in a representative sample of breast cancer patientsAbstract.Objectives: The aim of this study was to validate ...
Peterson, Park, and Seligman (2005) developed the Orientations to Happiness (OTH) questionnaire to measure three routes to happiness: life of pleasure (hedonism), life of engagement (flow) and life of meaning (eudemonia). The questionnaire was translated ...
Abstract. This paper aimed to assess whether differences in the way to conceive happiness, measured by the Orientations to Happiness measure, were associated with specific reactions to negative events. We hypothesized that among ...
Abstract. Recent studies indicate that a vast majority of people judge the probability of a conditional <if A then C> as equivalent to the conditional probability of <A, given C>. This means that in evaluating the applicability of a conditional people do ...
Recent research has demonstrated that nostalgia is a source of meaning in life that people utilize when managing existential concerns. The current studies further explored the existential function of nostalgia by testing the prediction that nostalgia ...
Abstract. High (vs. low) levels of boredom are associated with greater (vs. lesser) impulsiveness. It is important to examine the psychological processes that link boredom and impulsiveness to understand this relationship. We propose that ...
Abstract. Finding meaning and purpose in one's life facilitates several important work outcomes. A global pandemic that changes both the lives of employees and the way they work likely affects the relationships ...