The author of the master thesis is focusing on the subject of meaning in life and the process of grieving. She want to know whether a correlation exists between one's seach for meaning or an already found meaning annd the process of grief in the catagories of control over one's emotion, resilience against unpleasent emotions and being overwhelmed by emotion. In the theoretical part, the author first examines a philosophical run – through of the term meaning, then preforms an in – depth analysis of the works of Viktor Frankl and his approach logotherapy.In the second chapter the author presents the modern therapeutic view of grief work and the main guidelines for healing. A special subchapter is devoted to prolongued grief. The last theoretical part examines the ways or situations, in which meaning and grief are almost intrinsically connected.
In the empirical part of the master thesis the author presents the research she herself has conducted. The research was quantitative in nature (N=155), asking the participants to solve a survey, consisting of three questionnaires – The Adult Attitude to Grief Scale, Meaning in Life Questionnaire and The Inventory of complicated Grief.
The results showed positive correlation of statistical importance between found and searched for meaning and overwhelmness, control, voulnerability and voulnerable grief, while the correlation with immunity was found to be negative.
The results also showed the statistically important differences of prolongued grief with regards to voulnerability.
Meaning (neither found neither searched – for) was not found to be a protective factor during the grief process in our research.
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