Browsing Faculty of Humanities by Subject "Meaning"
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Authentic happiness of managers, and individual and organisational outcomes
(SAGE Publications, 2012)The aim of this study was to investigate managers' orientations to happiness and the relationship thereof to individual and organisational outcomes. A cross-sectional survey design was used with managers in the agricultural ... -
Callings, work role fit, psychological meaningfulness and work engagement among teachers in Zambia
(Educational Asociation of SA (EASA), 2013)Our aim in this study was to investigate the relationships among a calling orientation, work role fit, psychological meaningfulness and work engagement of teachers in Zambia. A quantitative approach was followed and a ... -
Cognition and context in translation analysis: Contextual frames of reference in Bible translation
(Scriptura, 2014)This article describes the concept of contextual frames of reference (CFR) and explains its importance to the analysis of Bible translations. The article starts by explaining the idea of cognition, which is fundamental to ... -
Meaning as Perceived and Experienced by an African Student Group
(Taylor & Francis, 2014)This qualitative study explored what a Batswana group of African students (N = 73) find most meaningful in their life and why those sources of meaning are important to them. Findings showed that, in line with previous ... -
The mind’s eye: a photographic method for understanding meaning in people’s lives.
(Taylor & Francis, 2013)Although research relying on self-report inventories has built an increased appreciation of the importance of meaning in life, such research has strayed somewhat from the original promise of meaning in life research, which ... -
Violations of War: Testing the Meaning–Making Model Among Vietnam Veterans
(Wiley–blackwell, 2015)Objective: Posttrauma adjustment theories postulate that intense stressors violate people s beliefs about the world and perceived ability to achieve valued goals. Failure to make meaning from traumatic events exacerbates ...