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| Observations of personal meaning sources for Israeli age cohorts | | Author(s) | E Prager |
| Journal title | Aging & Mental Health, vol 2, no 2, May 1998 |
| Pages | pp 128-136 |
| Source | http://www.tandfonline.com |
| Keywords | Life satisfaction ; Personal relationships ; Attitude ; Older people ; Adults ; Israel. |
| Annotation | Using the Sources of Meaning Profile (SOMP), an instrument developed to measure the sources of personal, present meaning in one's life, this descriptive study examined what 296 Israelis aged 18-91 considered to be the most and least important sources of meaning in their lives. Respondents, irrespective of age, viewed personal relationships, enduring values and ideals and meeting basic needs as being among the most important sources of meaning. Though the importance of religious activities tended to increase, albeit insignificantly, with age this source of meaning was ranked among the lowest in importance by all age groups. No one age group emerged as deriving significantly more total meaning from the sources examined than did other age groups. There was evidence of an increasing philosophic and humanistic life orientation in the later years. The author concluded that the findings showed that although some sources of meaning may change over the life span the relation between the strength of life meaning remains consistent, or stable, regardless of where meaning is embedded. (AKM). |
| Accession Number | CPA-980612409 A |
| Classmark | F:5HH: DS: DP: B: SD: 7H6 |
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