Mental simulation and meaning in life.

Mental simulation and meaning in life.

Mental simulation, the process of self-projection into alternate temporal, spatial, social, or hypothetical realities is a distinctively human capacity. Numerous lines of research also suggest that the tendency for mental simulation is associated with enhanced meaning. The present research tests this association specifically examining the relationship between two forms of simulation (temporal a...

Effectivness of Hope Therapy base on Group on Mental Health and Meaning in Life in Depressed Female Students

Aim: the aim of this research was to investigate the effect of Hope Therapy on mental health and meaning in life of depressed teenage girls. Methods: The research method was semi-experimental with pretest-posttest, and control group. The statistical population included all high school girls in Isfahan in 2016 and the statistical sample of the study included 24 girls who were selected by cluster...

An Investigation of the Relationship between Sources of Meaning of Life and Mental Health

Meaning in life and mortality.

OBJECTIVES The purpose of this exploratory study was to see if meaning in life is associated with mortality in old age. METHODS Interviews were conducted with a nationwide sample of older adults (N = 1,361). Data were collected on meaning in life, mortality, and select control measures. RESULTS Three main findings emerged from this study. First, the data suggest that older people with a str...

Embodiment , simulation and meaning

Approaches to meaning differ in ways as fundamental as the questions they aim to answer. The theoretical outlook described in this chapter, the embodied simulation approach, belongs to the class of perspectives that ask how meaning operates in real time in the brain, mind, and body of language users. Clearly, some approaches to meaning are better suited to this question than others. Mechanistic...