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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 feelmeaningful 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 andexistence feel important and significant to you. Please respond to the following statements astruthfully and accurately as you can, and also please remember that these are very subjectivequestions and that there are no right or wrong answers. Please answer according to the scale below:

AbsolutelyUnture

MostlyUntrue

SomewhatUntrue

Can'tsay

True orFlase

SomewhatTrue

MostlyTrue

AbsolutelyTrue

I understand my life's meaning.

I am looking for something that makes my lifefeel 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 lifemeaningful.

I have discovered a satisfying life purpose.

I am always searching for something thatmakes 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 astruthfully and accurately as you can, and also please remember that these are very subjectivequestions and that there are no right or wrong answers. Please answer according to the scale below:

AbsolutelyUnture

MostlyUntrue

SomewhatUntrue

Can'tsay

True orFlase

SomewhatTrue

MostlyTrue

AbsolutelyTrue





I am looking for something that makes my lifefeel 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 lifemeaningful.

I have discovered a satisfying life purpose.

I am always searching for something thatmakes 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 abouthow you see the role of work in your own life. Knowing that you are currently pursuing a particularcareer, you may expect certain things from your future work. Please answer the following items interms of what you feel the career you are pursuing will provide for you. Please answer honestly asthere are no right or wrong answers. Please circle the response that best reflects how true oruntrue each item is of your perspective on your chosen career.

AbsolutelyUntrue

MostlyUntrue

NeitherTrue orUntrue

MostlyTrue

AbsolutelyTrue

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 ispersonally 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 largersense.

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.” Broadlyspeaking, 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 kindof work.

Not at all true of



me Totally true of me

1. I have a calling to aparticular kind of work.

2. I have a goodunderstanding of my callingas it applies to my career.

3. I am trying to figure out mycalling in my career.

4. I am searching for a callingas 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 yourlife, and then indicate how true it is for you. Use the following scale to respond:

Not atall

True Somewhat

True VeryTrue

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 socialcontacts.

8. I generally feel free to express my ideas and opinions.

9. I consider the people I regularly interact with to be myfriends.

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 Ido.

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 howcapable 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 memuch.

19. I often do not feel very capable.

20. There is not much opportunity for me to decide for myselfhow 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 thestatements regarding your life as a whole:

Absolutely Mostly SomewhatNeitherTrue or Somewhat Mostly Absolutely



Male

Female

Large Urban

Mid-sized Urban

Suburban

Rural

Yes

No

AbsolutelyUntrue

MostlyUntrue

SomewhatUntrue

True orUntrue

SomewhatTrue

MostlyTrue

AbsolutelyTrue

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 wantfrom life.

5. If I could live my life over, I would change almostnothing.

9. What is your age:

10. What is your gender/sex:

11. What is your own (or your family's) estimated annual income?

12. Where did you grow up?

13. Race/Ethnicity

14. What religion are you most affiliated with at the present time, if any? Please be as specific aspossible.

15. Importance of Religion

Not at allimportant Very Important N/A

How much does your religionmean to you?

16. Do you think your current occupation is a good match for your personality and values?



No

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