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1. Please write about a time that you felt extremely sure that your life was meaningful.
2. Please tell me what your current occupation or job is, and what makes the work that you do feel
meaningful to you (if it does).
3. If you have been unemployed, please tell me what that experience was like. How did it happen?
What was hardest about that experience? Were there any surprising or positive outcomes?
4. Meaning in Life Questionnaire. Please take a moment to think about what makes your life and
existence feel important and significant to you. Please respond to the following statements as
truthfully and accurately as you can, and also please remember that these are very subjective
questions and that there are no right or wrong answers. Please answer according to the scale below:
Absolutely
Unture
Mostly
Untrue
Can't
say
Somewhat True or Somewhat
Untrue
Flase
True
Mostly
True
Absolutely
True
I understand my life's meaning.
I am looking for something that makes my life
feel meaningful.
I am always looking to find my life's purpose.
My life has a clear sense of purpose.
I have a good sense of what makes my life
meaningful.
I have discovered a satisfying life purpose.
I am always searching for something that
makes my life feel significant.
I am seeking a purpose or mission for my life.
My life has no clear purpose.
I am searching for meaning in my life.
4. Meaning in Life Questionnaire. Please take a moment to think about what makes your life and
existence feel important and significant to you. Please respond to the following statements as
truthfully and accurately as you can, and also please remember that these are very subjective
questions and that there are no right or wrong answers. Please answer according to the scale below:
Absolutely
Unture
I understand my life's meaning.
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Mostly
Untrue
Can't
say
Somewhat True or Somewhat
Untrue
Flase
True
Mostly
True
Absolutely
True
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I understand my life's meaning.
I am looking for something that makes my life
feel meaningful.
I am always looking to find my life's purpose.
My life has a clear sense of purpose.
I have a good sense of what makes my life
meaningful.
I have discovered a satisfying life purpose.
I am always searching for something that
makes my life feel significant.
I am seeking a purpose or mission for my life.
My life has no clear purpose.
I am searching for meaning in my life.
5. Work As Meaning Inventory
Instruction: Work can mean a lot of different things to different people. The following items ask about
how you see the role of work in your own life. Knowing that you are currently pursuing a particular
career, you may expect certain things from your future work. Please answer the following items in
terms of what you feel the career you are pursuing will provide for you. Please answer honestly as
there are no right or wrong answers. Please circle the response that best reflects how true or
untrue each item is of your perspective on your chosen career.
Absolutely
Untrue
Mostly
Untrue
Neither
True or
Untrue
Mostly
True
Absolutely
True
My work is utterly meaningless.
My work is purposeless.
I have discovered work that has a satisfying purpose.
The work I do serves a greater purpose.
I have a good sense of what makes my job meaningful.
I crave work that would feel meaningful.
I have found a meaningful career.
I feel my job is pointless.
It is easier for me to get motivated to do work that is
personally meaningful.
The most important thing about work is that it is meaningful.
It is important to me to work at a job that matters in a larger
sense.
I am striving to find work that will be meaningful.
I am seeking a purpose or mission for my work.
My work provides me with a clear sense of purpose.
I know my work makes a positive difference in the world.
My work really makes no difference to the world.
I don’t care whether my work is meaningful or not.
6. The Brief Calling Scale
Instruction: Some people, when describing their careers, talk about having a “calling.” Broadly
speaking, a “calling” in the context of work refers to a person’s belief that she or he is called upon
(e.g., by God, by the needs of society, by a person’s own inner potential, etc.) to do a particular kind
of work.
Not at all true of
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me
Totally true of me
1. I have a calling to a
particular kind of work.
2. I have a good
understanding of my calling
as it applies to my career.
3. I am trying to figure out my
calling in my career.
4. I am searching for a calling
as it applies to my career.
7. The Basic Psychological Needs Scale
Instructions: Please read each of the following items carefully, thinking about how it relates to your
life, and then indicate how true it is for you. Use the following scale to respond:
Not at
all
True
Somewhat
True
Very
True
1. I feel like I am free to decide for myself how to live my life.
2. I really like the people I interact with.
3. Often, I do not feel very competent.
4. I feel pressured in my life.
5. People I know tell me I am good at what I do.
6. I get along with people I come into contact with.
7. I pretty much keep to myself and don't have a lot of social
contacts.
8. I generally feel free to express my ideas and opinions.
9. I consider the people I regularly interact with to be my
friends.
10. I have been able to learn interesting new skills recently.
11. In my daily life, I frequently have to do what I am told.
12. People in my life care about me.
13. Most days I feel a sense of accomplishment from what I
do.
14. People I interact with on a daily basis tend to take my
feelings into consideration.
15. In my life I do not get much of a chance to show how
capable I am.
16. There are not many people that I am close to.
17. I feel like I can pretty much be myself in my daily situations.
18. The people I interact with regularly do not seem to like me
much.
19. I often do not feel very capable.
20. There is not much opportunity for me to decide for myself
how to do things in my daily life.
21. People are generally pretty friendly towards me.
8. Satisfaction with Life Scale
Instructions: Please read the following questions and respond with your level of agreement with the
statements regarding your life as a whole:
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Neither
Absolutely Mostly Somewhat True or Somewhat Mostly Absolutely
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Absolutely Mostly Somewhat True or Somewhat Mostly Absolutely
Untrue
Untrue
Untrue
Untrue
True
True
True
1. I am satisfied with my life.
2. The conditions of my life are excellent.
3. In most ways my life is close to the ideal.
4. So far I have gotten the important things I want
from life.
5. If I could live my life over, I would change almost
nothing.
9. What is your age:
10. What is your gender/sex:
Male
Female
11. What is your own (or your family's) estimated annual income?
12. Where did you grow up?
Large Urban
Mid-sized Urban
Suburban
Rural
13. Race/Ethnicity
14. What religion are you most affiliated with at the present time, if any? Please be as specific as
possible.
15. Importance of Religion
Not at all
important
Very Important
N/A
How much does your religion
mean to you?
16. Do you think your current occupation is a good match for your personality and values?
Yes
No
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1. Please write about a time that you felt extremely sure that your life was meaningful.
2. Please tell me what your current occupation or job is, and what makes the work that you do feel
meaningful to you (if it does).
3. If you have been unemployed, please tell me what that experience was like. How did it happen?
What was hardest about that experience? Were there any surprising or positive outcomes?
4. Meaning in Life Questionnaire. Please take a moment to think about what makes your life and
existence feel important and significant to you. Please respond to the following statements as
truthfully and accurately as you can, and also please remember that these are very subjective
questions and that there are no right or wrong answers. Please answer according to the scale below:
Absolutely
Unture
Mostly
Untrue
Can't
say
Somewhat True or Somewhat
Untrue
Flase
True
Mostly
True
Absolutely
True
I understand my life's meaning.
I am looking for something that makes my life
feel meaningful.
I am always looking to find my life's purpose.
My life has a clear sense of purpose.
I have a good sense of what makes my life
meaningful.
I have discovered a satisfying life purpose.
I am always searching for something that
makes my life feel significant.
I am seeking a purpose or mission for my life.
My life has no clear purpose.
I am searching for meaning in my life.
4. Meaning in Life Questionnaire. Please take a moment to think about what makes your life and
existence feel important and significant to you. Please respond to the following statements as
truthfully and accurately as you can, and also please remember that these are very subjective
questions and that there are no right or wrong answers. Please answer according to the scale below:
Absolutely
Unture
I understand my life's meaning.
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Mostly
Untrue
Can't
say
Somewhat True or Somewhat
Untrue
Flase
True
Mostly
True
Absolutely
True
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I understand my life's meaning.
I am looking for something that makes my life
feel meaningful.
I am always looking to find my life's purpose.
My life has a clear sense of purpose.
I have a good sense of what makes my life
meaningful.
I have discovered a satisfying life purpose.
I am always searching for something that
makes my life feel significant.
I am seeking a purpose or mission for my life.
My life has no clear purpose.
I am searching for meaning in my life.
5. Work As Meaning Inventory
Instruction: Work can mean a lot of different things to different people. The following items ask about
how you see the role of work in your own life. Knowing that you are currently pursuing a particular
career, you may expect certain things from your future work. Please answer the following items in
terms of what you feel the career you are pursuing will provide for you. Please answer honestly as
there are no right or wrong answers. Please circle the response that best reflects how true or
untrue each item is of your perspective on your chosen career.
Absolutely
Untrue
Mostly
Untrue
Neither
True or
Untrue
Mostly
True
Absolutely
True
My work is utterly meaningless.
My work is purposeless.
I have discovered work that has a satisfying purpose.
The work I do serves a greater purpose.
I have a good sense of what makes my job meaningful.
I crave work that would feel meaningful.
I have found a meaningful career.
I feel my job is pointless.
It is easier for me to get motivated to do work that is
personally meaningful.
The most important thing about work is that it is meaningful.
It is important to me to work at a job that matters in a larger
sense.
I am striving to find work that will be meaningful.
I am seeking a purpose or mission for my work.
My work provides me with a clear sense of purpose.
I know my work makes a positive difference in the world.
My work really makes no difference to the world.
I don’t care whether my work is meaningful or not.
6. The Brief Calling Scale
Instruction: Some people, when describing their careers, talk about having a “calling.” Broadly
speaking, a “calling” in the context of work refers to a person’s belief that she or he is called upon
(e.g., by God, by the needs of society, by a person’s own inner potential, etc.) to do a particular kind
of work.
Not at all true of
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me
Totally true of me
1. I have a calling to a
particular kind of work.
2. I have a good
understanding of my calling
as it applies to my career.
3. I am trying to figure out my
calling in my career.
4. I am searching for a calling
as it applies to my career.
7. The Basic Psychological Needs Scale
Instructions: Please read each of the following items carefully, thinking about how it relates to your
life, and then indicate how true it is for you. Use the following scale to respond:
Not at
all
True
Somewhat
True
Very
True
1. I feel like I am free to decide for myself how to live my life.
2. I really like the people I interact with.
3. Often, I do not feel very competent.
4. I feel pressured in my life.
5. People I know tell me I am good at what I do.
6. I get along with people I come into contact with.
7. I pretty much keep to myself and don't have a lot of social
contacts.
8. I generally feel free to express my ideas and opinions.
9. I consider the people I regularly interact with to be my
friends.
10. I have been able to learn interesting new skills recently.
11. In my daily life, I frequently have to do what I am told.
12. People in my life care about me.
13. Most days I feel a sense of accomplishment from what I
do.
14. People I interact with on a daily basis tend to take my
feelings into consideration.
15. In my life I do not get much of a chance to show how
capable I am.
16. There are not many people that I am close to.
17. I feel like I can pretty much be myself in my daily situations.
18. The people I interact with regularly do not seem to like me
much.
19. I often do not feel very capable.
20. There is not much opportunity for me to decide for myself
how to do things in my daily life.
21. People are generally pretty friendly towards me.
8. Satisfaction with Life Scale
Instructions: Please read the following questions and respond with your level of agreement with the
statements regarding your life as a whole:
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Neither
Absolutely Mostly Somewhat True or Somewhat Mostly Absolutely
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Absolutely Mostly Somewhat True or Somewhat Mostly Absolutely
Untrue
Untrue
Untrue
Untrue
True
True
True
1. I am satisfied with my life.
2. The conditions of my life are excellent.
3. In most ways my life is close to the ideal.
4. So far I have gotten the important things I want
from life.
5. If I could live my life over, I would change almost
nothing.
9. What is your age:
10. What is your gender/sex:
Male
Female
11. What is your own (or your family's) estimated annual income?
12. Where did you grow up?
Large Urban
Mid-sized Urban
Suburban
Rural
13. Race/Ethnicity
14. What religion are you most affiliated with at the present time, if any? Please be as specific as
possible.
15. Importance of Religion
Not at all
important
Very Important
N/A
How much does your religion
mean to you?
16. Do you think your current occupation is a good match for your personality and values?
Yes
No
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