Life's Little (and Big) Lessons: Identity Statuses and Meaning-Making in the Turning Point Narratives of Emerging Adults - McLean and Pratt (2006)
One of the major characteristics of well-formed life stories is a sense of meaning or integration of one's experiences and, thus, of oneself (McLean and Pratt, 2006)
(...) Along with even type, another narrative characteristics that has been robustly associated with meaning is the emotionality of events. As mentioned above, prior research has found that more negative or conflicting events are associated with more meaning (McLean & Thorne, 2003; Thorne et al., 2004). Some studies have even started from the assumption that negative or difficult life events provide special opportunities for meaning-making (e.g., King et al., 2000; Pals, in press). The association between negative or difficult life events provide special opportunities for such events to be included may also provoke a stronger desire to narratively rework the event to reduce cognitive dissonance, and coping and resolution may come in the form of narrative construction (Pals & McAdams, 2004; Tedeschi & Calhoun, 2004).
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The Retirement Satisfaction Inventory: Factor Structure in a French Sample
(...) Retiring from full-time employment is a milestone that marks the transition into the later stage of life for millions of American each year. The retirement experience can lead either to new goals, interests, and activities or to stress, rapid physical deterioration, and depression (Dorfman & Moffett, 1987; Matthews & Brown, 1987; Morse, Dutka, & Gray, 1983; Seccombe & Lee, 1986)
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Assessing retirement satisfaction and perceptions of retirement experiences - Floyd, Haynes, Doll, Winemiller, Lemsky, Burgy, Werle, and Heilman (1992)
The most essential index of subjective well-being for an individual is the person's judgment about quality of life and life satisfaction (Diener, 1984)
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What is well-being?
Well-being is the experience of health, happiness, and prosperity. It includes having good mental health, high life satisfaction, a sense of meaning or a sense of meaning or purpose, and ability to manage stress. More generally, well-being is just feeling well. (From Psychology Today)
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Narrative meaning making is associated with sudden gains in psychotherapy clients' mental health under routine clinical conditions - Jonathan M. Adler, Luke H. Harmeling, and Ilana Walder-Biesanz (2013)
In sum, narrative perspective on the process of meaning making aligns with research on psychotherapy process and outcome to suggest that processing, avoidance, and coherence may be associated with SGs (y in the paper) in mental health.
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