TY - JOUR
T1 - Meaning in life in personality disorder
T2 - An empirical approach considering self-direction, self-transcendence and spiritual/religious worldviews
AU - Steen, Angelien
AU - Braam, A. W. Arjan
AU - Berghuis, Han
AU - Glas, Gerrit
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2023
Y1 - 2023
N2 - Meaning-in-Life might be associated with self-direction for patients with personality disorder (PD) but also with depressive symptoms or existential factors such as self-transcendence and spiritual/religious worldviews. PD patients (n = 125) and a control group (n = 69) completed the following: Meaning-in-Life Questionnaire (MLQ-Presence and MLQ-Search), General-Assessment-of-personality-disorder subscale Lack-of-Meaning-Purpose-Direction (GAPD-LMPD), Symptom-Checklist-Depression (SCL-90-Depression), Temperament-and-Character-Inventory scale Self-Transcendence (TCI-ST) and a worldview-questionnaire. PD patients showed less meaning in life, but religious and spiritual/non-religious worldviews mattered. Results emphasize that PD, beyond depressive symptoms, possesses a unique association with meaning-in-life and suggest exploring spiritual/religious worldviews as possible sources for meaning-in-life. MLQ-Presence and GAPD-LMPD seem to assess no identical constructs.
AB - Meaning-in-Life might be associated with self-direction for patients with personality disorder (PD) but also with depressive symptoms or existential factors such as self-transcendence and spiritual/religious worldviews. PD patients (n = 125) and a control group (n = 69) completed the following: Meaning-in-Life Questionnaire (MLQ-Presence and MLQ-Search), General-Assessment-of-personality-disorder subscale Lack-of-Meaning-Purpose-Direction (GAPD-LMPD), Symptom-Checklist-Depression (SCL-90-Depression), Temperament-and-Character-Inventory scale Self-Transcendence (TCI-ST) and a worldview-questionnaire. PD patients showed less meaning in life, but religious and spiritual/non-religious worldviews mattered. Results emphasize that PD, beyond depressive symptoms, possesses a unique association with meaning-in-life and suggest exploring spiritual/religious worldviews as possible sources for meaning-in-life. MLQ-Presence and GAPD-LMPD seem to assess no identical constructs.
KW - Meaning in life
KW - personality disorder
KW - self-direction
KW - self-transcendence
KW - worldview
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85152460684&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1080/19349637.2023.2199172
DO - 10.1080/19349637.2023.2199172
M3 - Article
SN - 1934-9637
JO - Journal of Spirituality in Mental Health
JF - Journal of Spirituality in Mental Health
ER -