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• W326650719 abstract "ABSTRACT Finding meaning in and for one's life has been found to have salutogenic effect on people's lives. This issue becomes even more important in traumatic situations. An extremely stressful situation is the diagnosis with cancer, where one's life and future are seriously threatened. Some people succumb under such huge stress, others live an impaired life, and still others bounce back to an acceptable level of functioning. The emotional co-activation theory may stand at the basis of turning such adversity into advantage. One possible mechanism that would help people balance the negative emotions produced by diagnosis and its implications is through finding meaning for life. Our study aims to investigate whether there is difference in the texture of affective life between those Romanian cancer patients who are able to find meaning for their foreseen future and those who are not. We are also interested in the underlying mechanisms that might contribute to these findings. KEYWORDS: meaning in life, life regard index (LRI) cancer related distress, positive reinterpretation, active coping, co-activation. INTRODUCTION Man does not live by bread alone, nor by know-how, safety, children or sex (1997, p. 521). This is how Steven Pinker's chapter on The Meaning of Life in How the Mind Works (1997) begins. This acknowledgement has led him to inventory the functions of different specific human behaviors (music, literature, religion, humor, philosophy, etc.), which seemingly have major common function - they help people find or attribute/confer meaning to disparate events they encounter during life and life itself. It seems that it is natural need of humans to be able to find meaning to all happenings in life, great and small, as well as justification for their existence, to be able to find place in the bigger picture for their lives (Klinger, 1998; Wong & Fry, 1998). Pinker's acknowledgement is not recent finding. The importance of the individual's quest of understanding the world, life and his/her adaptation through it to the requirements of each situation has for very long time been topic of interest. Until recently, the issue of meaning in life has traditionally been one of the most important problems in philosophy, theology, and literature (Debats, van der Lubbe, & Wezeman, 1993), eluding to occupy an important position in mainstream psychology (Debats, 1998). This was due to at least two factors: (i) even today it is extremely difficult to arrive to unitary definition of this concept, and (ii) because of its 'vague', 'boundless' nature theoretical, and especially empirical approaches had difficulties in operationalizing meaning in life (Debats, 1998). The last decades of social and psychological research have recognized the psychological implications of meaning in/of the individual's life both in usual situations and in extreme cases of loss, harm and trauma (Frankl, 1963; Yalom, 1980; Janoff-Bulman, 1992; Davis, Wortman, Lehman, & Silver, 2000), thus intensifying bith theoretical development and research in the domain. Meaning in life in everyday situations Finding meaning in and for one's life has been found to have salutogenic effect in all societies, helping people attain and maintain level of emotional balance and motivation in order to attain goals. Since meaning in life has been found to be 'positive psychological resource' that promotes health in societies undergoing major political and economical changes too, its implications become even more serious (Skrabski, Kopp, Rozsa, Rethelyi, & Rahe, 2005). As Wong and Fry (1998) have stated, nowadays research has gathered a critical mass of empirical evidence and convergence of expert opinions that personal meaning is important not only for survival but also for health and wellbeing (p. xvii). Finding one's life as meaningful was demonstrated to be positively related to general well-being in the sense that those individuals who could confer meaning to their lives had higher level of self-efficacy, problem-focused coping, religiousness, high levels of social support, etc. …" @default.
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