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Life and Self Meaning: The Process of Their Creation.
Weenolsen, Patricia – 1986
Research has not addressed issues of life meaning in a life-span developmental framework. The Loss and Transcendence paradigm was developed as a humanistic-existential approach to life-span development which has as its central theme the concept that individuals are in a continuous process of creating their lives and their selves. To explore loss…
Descriptors: Adults, Existentialism, Females, Humanism
Loss and Transcendence Life Themes.
Weenolsen, Patricia – 1985
Psychologists have often observed an underlying pattern or theme in the accounts that individuals give of their lives. To test a humanistic-existential approach to human development, 48 women were interviewed with the Loss and Transcendence (L/T) Life History Form. The L/T Life Theme is expressed in two ways: the expanded version includes the…
Descriptors: Adult Development, Biographies, Experiential Learning, Females