Michael F Steger
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 1563543 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Michael F Steger |
| PRENOMES | Michael F |
| SOBRENOME | Steger |
| ASSINATURA | STEGER M F |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Colorado State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4888-1153 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 52 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 597 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 51 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2005 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 8 |
Personal Growth Among Pregnant Women During War
Pregnancy is both a joyful and a challenging period that involves emotional and physical concerns, which can be exacerbated during a crisis event such as war, elevating the risk for post‐traumatic symptoms. However, stressful circumstances also constitute the opportunity to experience personal growth, which has been hardly examined among pregnant women. This study investigated the contribution of post‐traumatic symptoms, optimism, meaning in life…
Motivation, meaning and well-being
Meaning in life and psychological distress
Positive psychology in a pandemic
As the COVID-19 global health disaster continues to unfold across the world, calls have been made to address the associated mental illness public crisis. The current paper seeks to broaden these calls by considering the role that positive psychology factors can play in buffering against mental illness, bolstering mental health during COVID-19 and building positive processes and capacities that may help to strengthen future mental health. The pape…
Inching Closer to the Structure (Structures?) of Character Strengths and Virtues
"Inching Closer to the Structure (Structures?) of Character Strengths and Virtues." Journal of Personality Assessment, 104(3), pp. 428–429
Meaning in Life Moderates Relations between Personality and Temperament and Nonsuicidal Self-Injury in Hospitalized Adolescents
What Can We Learn About the Concept of Meaning in Life from Older Adults with Alzheimer’s Disease? A Directed Content Analysis Study
Emerging Perspectives
This chapter summarizes the emerging research, theory, and practice implications stemming from these three variables. Work volition is usually considered a prerequisite to living a calling or experiencing meaningful work; that is, a sense of calling and meaningfulness are more likely when people feel they have the capacity to make choices. The career construction theory and psychology of working theory (PWT) offer helpful strategies for assisting…
Assessing meaning & purpose in life
Meaning, social support, and resilience as predictors of posttraumatic growth
120) self-reported perceived presence and search for meaning in life, social support, resilience, and posttraumatic growth (PTG). After controlling for amount of property damaged, posttraumatic stress symptoms, gender, religion, and ethnicity or race, presence and search for meaning, social support, and resilience explained significant additional variance in PTG scores. This research adds to the growing understanding of how individuals respond to…
Meaning in Life and in Work
Work has powerful potential to enrich our lives by providing them with meaning. The idea of meaning in life (MIL) is crucial to almost every measure of human well-being or flourishing, yet there is much less consensus over the idea of meaningful work (MW). Although the two ideas are often used interchangeably, this chapter reviews different conceptualizations of these ideas to see how they are related and takes a “theoretical turn” to consider so…
Fostering meaningful work in organizations
Meaning making, self‐determination theory, and the question of wisdom in personality
Self‐determination theory (SDT) has advanced the most comprehensive model of motives for human flourishing in the field of personality psychology and beyond. In this article, we evaluate SDT relative to the process of meaning making, particularly from a narrative perspective, showing what SDT can and cannot explain about the construction of self‐identity and its relation to human flourishing. On the one hand, SDT explains how subjective assessmen…
Meaningfulness as Satisfaction of Autonomy, Competence, Relatedness, and Beneficence
Refining and supplementing candidate measures of psychological well-being for the NIH PROMIS®
The three meanings of meaning in life
Despite growing interest in meaning in life, many have voiced their concern over the conceptual refinement of the construct itself. Researchers seem to have two main ways to understand what meaning in life means: coherence and purpose, with a third way, significance, gaining increasing attention. Coherence means a sense of comprehensibility and one’s life making sense. Purpose means a sense of core goals, aims, and direction in life. Significance…
Self-concept clarity’s role in meaning in life among American college students
Meaning in life (MIL) is a fundamental building block of well-being, and MIL theory heavily emphasizes the importance of using self-knowledge to identify what makes life meaningful and to select suitable purposes to pursue in life. However, few studies have investigated this important theoretical point. The purpose of the present study was to investigate individual growth trajectories of self-knowledge, measured with a construct of self-concept c…
The meaningful identity
Identity formation in adolescence is closely linked to searching for and acquiring meaning in one's life. To date little is known about the manner in which these 2 constructs may be related in this developmental stage. In order to shed more light on their longitudinal links, we conducted a 3-wave longitudinal study, investigating how identity processes and meaning in life dimensions are interconnected across time, testing the moderating effects o…
A reason to stay healthy
The present longitudinal study investigated the incremental contribution of meaning in life to sustaining health-promoting behaviors, after controlling for well-being and health values among East-European adolescents ( N = 456). Time 1 responses on presence of meaning, search for meaning, well-being, and health values were used to predict levels of healthy eating and physical activity 13 months later. All independent variables significantly predi…
You, me, and meaning
Social relationships are seen to be vital to human functioning, both in terms of psychological functioning and physical health. Relationships are a cornerstone of well-being. For instance, having positive relationships has been linked to greater happiness, life satisfaction and physical health outcomes. Meaning in life, or the perception that one's life is significant and has a purpose, is another prominent cornerstone of well-being. As such, soc…
The Potential Role of Meaning in Life in the Relationship Between Bullying Victimization and Suicidal Ideation
Purpose and Meaning in Career Development Applications
Purpose and meaning in career development is a rapidly growing, cross-disciplinary area of research and practice in which counseling and vocational psychology aligns with positive psychology to yield promising applications to career counseling. We provide a brief overview of theory related to purpose and meaning in work, then review six specific areas of application: strengths, positive emotions and flow, gratitude, work hope, job crafting, and p…
Purpose and meaning in the workplace.
Work is one of the fundamental experiences of human life. Yet very few of us are lucky enough to find truly fulfilling jobs. In recent decades, as businesses have come to understand the crucial link between happiness and productivity, researchers have focused increasingly on factors such as the nature of the work itself, how well it is suited to the worker, and the ways in which employees can derive meaning and purpose from their work. In this gr…
Purpose and meaning in the workplace
"Work is one of the fundamental experiences of human life. Yet very few of us are lucky enough to find truly fulfilling jobs. In recent decades, as businesses have come to understand the crucial link between happiness and productivity, researchers have focused increasingly on factors such as the nature of the work itself, how well it is suited to the worker, and the ways in which employees can derive meaning and purpose from their work. In this b…
Through the windows of the soul
The meaning in life questionnaire
Counseling psychologists often work with clients to increase their well-being as well as to decrease their distress. One important aspect of well-being, highlighted particularly in humanistic theories of the counseling process, is perceived meaning in life. However, poor measurement has hampered research on meaning in life. In 3 studies, evidence is provided for the internal consistency, temporal stability, factor structure, and validity of the M…
Validation of the subtle and blatant racism scale for Asian American college students (Sabr-A2)
This investigation describes the validation of a measure of perceived racism developed to assess racial experiences of Asian American college students. In three studies across two different regions of the United States, there was strong evidence for the validation of the 8-item Subtle and Blatant Racism Scale for Asian American College Students (SABR-A2). The subtle racism subscale refers to instances of discrimination attributable implicitly to …
Being good by doing good
The curiosity and exploration inventory-II
The meaningful life in Japan and the United States
The meaningful identity
Identity formation in adolescence is closely linked to searching for and acquiring meaning in one's life. To date little is known about the manner in which these 2 constructs may be related in this developmental stage. In order to shed more light on their longitudinal links, we conducted a 3-wave longitudinal study, investigating how identity processes and meaning in life dimensions are interconnected across time, testing the moderating effects o…
The Potential Role of Meaning in Life in the Relationship Between Bullying Victimization and Suicidal Ideation
A reason to stay healthy
The present longitudinal study investigated the incremental contribution of meaning in life to sustaining health-promoting behaviors, after controlling for well-being and health values among East-European adolescents ( N = 456). Time 1 responses on presence of meaning, search for meaning, well-being, and health values were used to predict levels of healthy eating and physical activity 13 months later. All independent variables significantly predi…
Purpose and Meaning in Career Development Applications
Purpose and meaning in career development is a rapidly growing, cross-disciplinary area of research and practice in which counseling and vocational psychology aligns with positive psychology to yield promising applications to career counseling. We provide a brief overview of theory related to purpose and meaning in work, then review six specific areas of application: strengths, positive emotions and flow, gratitude, work hope, job crafting, and p…
What Can Counseling Psychology Contribute to the Study of Optimal Human Functioning
In their reaction to the Major Contribution, the authors outline four specific research areas where counseling psychologists could make particularly important contributions: (a) the study of multicultural aspects of optimal human functioning, (b) self-efficacy and well-being, (c) positive interpersonal relationship processes, and (c) meaning in life
Meaning in life and psychological distress
Genetic and environmental influences on the positive traits of the values in action classification, and biometric covariance with normal personality
Meaning in Life Moderates Relations between Personality and Temperament and Nonsuicidal Self-Injury in Hospitalized Adolescents
Structural Validity of the Life Regard Index
Counselors and researchers interested in examining meaning in life often use the Life Regard Index (LRI; J. Battista & R. Almond, 1973). In this study, confirmatory factor analyses (CFAs) of several factor models based on J, Battista & R. Almond’s work failed to support the structural validity of the LR1. CFA results suggested an influence of positive and negative item wording, and subsequent exploratory factor analyses suggested 3 factors for th…
Meaning in Life
Meaning in life has been identified as a potential mediator of the link between religiousness and psychological health. The authors tested this hypothesis in 2 studies, using multiple methods and measures of religiousness and well-being. In the studies, meaning in life mediated the relation between religiousness and life satisfaction (Study 1A), as well as self-esteem and optimism (Study 1B). In addition, using an experience sampling method, the …
Experiential avoidance as a generalized psychological vulnerability
Expanding the Topography of Social Anxiety
The relation between social anxiety and hedonic activity remains poorly understood. From a self-regulatory perspective, we hypothesized that socially anxious individuals experience diminished positive experiences and events on days when they are unable to manage socially anxious feelings adequately. In this 21-day experience-sampling study, we constructed daily measures of social anxiety and emotion regulation. Greater dispositional social anxiet…
What Can Counseling Psychology Contribute to the Study of Optimal Human Functioning
In their reaction to the Major Contribution, the authors outline four specific research areas where counseling psychologists could make particularly important contributions: (a) the study of multicultural aspects of optimal human functioning, (b) self-efficacy and well-being, (c) positive interpersonal relationship processes, and (c) meaning in life
The meaning in life questionnaire
Counseling psychologists often work with clients to increase their well-being as well as to decrease their distress. One important aspect of well-being, highlighted particularly in humanistic theories of the counseling process, is perceived meaning in life. However, poor measurement has hampered research on meaning in life. In 3 studies, evidence is provided for the internal consistency, temporal stability, factor structure, and validity of the M…
Curiosity and pathways to well-being and meaning in life
Stability and specificity of meaning in life and life satisfaction over one year
Structural Validity of the Life Regard Index
Counselors and researchers interested in examining meaning in life often use the Life Regard Index (LRI; J. Battista & R. Almond, 1973). In this study, confirmatory factor analyses (CFAs) of several factor models based on J, Battista & R. Almond’s work failed to support the structural validity of the LR1. CFA results suggested an influence of positive and negative item wording, and subsequent exploratory factor analyses suggested 3 factors for th…
Genetic and environmental influences on the positive traits of the values in action classification, and biometric covariance with normal personality
Understanding the Search for Meaning in Life
Although several theories assert that understanding the search for meaning in life is important, empirical research on this construct is sparse. Three studies provide the first extensive effort to understand the correlates of the search for meaning in a multistudy research program. Assessed were relations between search for meaning and well‐being, cognitive style, and the Big Five, Big Three, Approach/Avoidance, and Interest models of personality…
Lesbians Grieving the Death of a Partner
Spousal loss is a common event that has been associated with risk of depression, anxiety, and loneliness. Practitioners working with lesbians need comprehensive clinical guidelines that integrate research about lesbian partner loss with contemporary views of grief and bereavement. Using this literature, we make recommendations for clinical practice that address the possible contributions of several factors--social support, emotional closeness, re…
The meaningful life in Japan and the United States
Being good by doing good
Meaning in Life
In this chapter, it is argued that meaning in life is an important variable for human well-being. Literature supporting this contention is reviewed, and complexities regarding defining meaning in life are discussed. Definitions of meaning have focused on several components, two of which appear central and unique to meaning in life, suggesting a conceptual framework of meaning in life comprised of two pillars: comprehension and purpose. Comprehens…
Meaning in life, anxiety, depression, and general health among smoking cessation patients
Meaning in life across the life span
Meaning in life is thought to be important to well-being throughout the human life span. We assessed the structure, levels, and correlates of the presence of meaning in life, and the search for meaning, within four life stage groups: emerging adulthood, young adulthood, middle-age adulthood, and older adulthood. Results from a sample of Internet users (N = 8756) demonstrated the structural invariance of the meaning measure used across life stages…
Depression and everyday social activity, belonging, and well-being.
Dysfunctional social behavior has been implicated in the experience of depression. People with greater depressive symptoms report more frequent negative social interactions and react more strongly to them. It remains unknown, however, whether reaction strength differs depending on whether social interactions are positive or negative. Drawing on socio-evolutionary models of depression (N. B. Allen & P. B. T. Badcock, 2003), we proposed that people…
The curiosity and exploration inventory-II
A preliminary report on a new measure
This investigation is a preliminary report on a new measure of internalization of the model minority myth. In 3 studies, there was evidence for the validation of the 15-item Internalization of the Model Minority Myth Measure (IM-4), with 2 subscales. The Model Minority Myth of Achievement Orientation referred to the myth of Asian Americans' greater success than other racial minority groups associated with their stronger work ethics, perseverance,…
The quest for meaning
Religious traditions are considered to provide their members with a way to integrate their experiences into a coherent, comprehensible whole; functioning as a meaning system. Given that religious traditions vary in certain ways, the meaning systems they provide to their members might also differ from one another. The present study was concerned with whether seeking existential meaning in religion and life is compatible with other expressions of r…
Validation of the subtle and blatant racism scale for Asian American college students (Sabr-A2)
This investigation describes the validation of a measure of perceived racism developed to assess racial experiences of Asian American college students. In three studies across two different regions of the United States, there was strong evidence for the validation of the 8-item Subtle and Blatant Racism Scale for Asian American College Students (SABR-A2). The subtle racism subscale refers to instances of discrimination attributable implicitly to …
Is a life without meaning satisfying? The moderating role of the search for meaning in satisfaction with life judgments
Results from two studies revealed that the relation between meaning in life and life satisfaction was moderated by the extent to which the rater was searching for meaning in his or her life. In Studies 1a and 1b, the presence of meaning was more strongly related to life satisfaction for those who were actively searching for meaning in life than for those who were not. Study 2 extended the finding to judgments concerning a fictitious target's life…
Meaning in Life
Calling and work-related outcomes
Making Meaning in Life
The annals of global exploration are peppered with amusing stories about seafaring captains who were convinced they had discovered some new world, or a new route to a well-known world. A flotilla o...
Psychology (50 obras) · Social Psychology (43 obras) · Psychotherapist (36 obras) · Psychological Well-being and Life Satisfaction (31 obras) · Meaning (existential) (23 obras) · Developmental psychology (22 obras) · Clinical Psychology (20 obras) · Optimism, Hope, and Well-being (18 obras) · Medicine (14 obras) · Social Psychology (14 obras)