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Meaning in Life Promotes Proactive Coping via Positive Affect: A Daily Diary Study

verfasst von: Miao Miao, Lei Zheng, Yiqun Gan

Erschienen in: Journal of Happiness Studies | Ausgabe 6/2017

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Previous research on meaning in life and coping has generally been focused on reactive coping strategies and global meaning judgments. To extend this, the present study used a daily diary method to collect longitudinal data, and examined whether individuals’ daily meaning in life predicted use of proactive coping techniques and whether this relationship was mediated by positive affect. Adults (n = 132) completed a diary to track their meaning in life and positive affect every day for 21 consecutive days. Global levels of meaning in life, positive affect, and proactive coping were measured both at baseline and after the daily reporting phase ended. Hierarchical linear modeling demonstrated that daily meaning in life was a positive predictor of daily positive affect. Furthermore, combined latent growth curve and structural equation models indicated that the rate of change in daily meaning in life predicted change in proactive coping over the course of the study, and that this relationship was mediated by change in positive affect. The mediational effect of positive affect in the relationship between meaning in life and proactive coping was also verified by the reported global levels of these variables. These findings suggest that meaning in life may play an important role in coping with future life stress. Our discussion centers on the positive functions of meaning in life and the mechanisms of the predictive relationship of meaning in life in terms of proactive coping.

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Titel: Meaning in Life Promotes Proactive Coping via Positive Affect: A Daily Diary Study
verfasst von: Miao Miao
Lei Zheng
Yiqun Gan
Publikationsdatum: 03.09.2016
Verlag: Springer Netherlands
Erschienen in: Journal of Happiness Studies / Ausgabe 6/2017
Print ISSN: 1389-4978
Elektronische ISSN: 1573-7780
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10902-016-9791-4

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