
משמעות בחיים ואקזיסציונליזם
Prioritizing meaning as a pathway to meaning in life and general well-being.
Recalibrating the Compass in a Changing World: Education for Meaning and Meaningful Education
Russo-Netzer, P. (2022). Recalibrating the Compass in a Changing World: Education for Meaning and Meaningful Education. Journal of constructivist psychology. doi.org/10.1080/10720537.2022.2068708
Finding Meaning in the Unexpected: Underexplored Pathways to Discovering and Cultivating Meaning in Life
Russo-Netzer, P. (2023). Finding meaning in the unexpected: Underexplored pathways to discovering and cultivating meaning in life. In: A. Chan (Ed.). Cultivating, Promoting, and Enhancing Meaning in Life Across Cultures and Life Span. Atlantis Press (Springer Nature).
Meaning in Life at the Cross-Roads of Personal Processes and Cultural Crisis.
Russo-Netzer, P. & Mayseless, O. (2021). Meaning in Life at the Cross-Roads of Personal Processes and Cultural Crisis. In: O. Mayseless & P. Russo-Netzer (Eds.). Finding Meaning: An Existential Quest in Post-Modern Israel. Oxford University Press.
Presence of Meaning, Search for Meaning, Satisfaction with Life and Depressive Symptoms among a Diverse Israeli Sample
Abu-Raiya, H., Sasson, T. & Russo-Netzer, P. (2020). Presence of Meaning, Search for Meaning, Satisfaction with Life and Depressive Symptoms among a Diverse Israeli Sample. International Journal of Psychology, 56 (2), 276-285.
An Underexplored Pathway to Well-Being: The Development and Validation of the Synchronicity Awareness and Meaning-Detecting (SAMD) Scale.
Russo-Netzer, P. & Icekson, T. (2023). An Underexplored Pathway to Well-Being: The Development and Validation of the Synchronicity Awareness and Meaning-Detecting (SAMD) Scale. Frontiers in Psychology.
Exploring and Assessing Meaning in Life in Elementary School Children: Development and Validation of the Meaning in Life in Children Questionnaire (MIL-CQ).
Shoshani, A. & Russo-Netzer, P. (2017). Exploring and Assessing Meaning in Life in Elementary School Children: Development and Validation of the Meaning in Life in Children Questionnaire (MIL-CQ). Personality and Individual Differences, 104, 460-465.
What is it like to be authentic? Exploring the lived experience of authenticity.
Russo-Netzer, P. & Davidov, J. (2020). What is it like to be authentic? Exploring the lived experience of authenticity. In L. C. J. Wong & E. M. Tam (Eds.), The existential positive psychology of suffering. Toronto, ON: INPM Press.
Finding Meaning in the Unexpected: Underexplored Pathways to Discovering and Cultivating Meaning in Life
One of the central components of meaning in life involves the experience that life “makes sense” and represents a coherent whole. Yet, less is known about the ways through which individuals discover or find meaning in everyday life. Despite advances in our understanding of the creative pathway through which individuals find meaning in life, mainly through the field of meaning in work, and the attitudinal pathway, mainly through the exploration of meaning-making in the face of adversity, the experiential pathway remains largely underexplored and its potential components require further unpacking. This chapter aims at broadening the existing perspective regarding the ways in which individuals seek and derive meaning in their lives by considering the potential role of mindfulness and unexpected experiences in everyday life. Based on conceptual and empirical suggestions, these two rather underexamined gateways of the experiential pathway may have a unique contribution to make in better understanding of how individuals may approach the question of meaning in life in the face of the unique challenges of the volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous world of our time.