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Making sense of the meaning literature: An integrative review of meaning making and its effects on adjustment to stressful life events
Crystal L. Park · 2010 · Psychological Bulletin, 136(2), 257-301
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Summary
Influential review distinguishing global meaning, situational meaning, meaning-making efforts, and meanings made after stressful life events.
Why it matters here
Supports the psychological truth beneath 'everything happens for a reason' while challenging the metaphysical claim that events are arranged for a purpose.
Editorial note
Meaning-making after events is not evidence that events were arranged in advance for that meaning.