Meaning in Life Questionnaire.
MLQ
- What it measures
- Two dimensions of meaning in life - Presence of Meaning (the extent meaning is currently felt) and Search for Meaning (active striving to find/augment meaning).
- Length and format
- 10 (5 Presence + 5 Search). 7-pt Likert (1 absolutely untrue - 7 absolutely true); one item reverse-scored (self-report questionnaire)
- Language versions
- Translated into 25+ languages; measurement invariance shown across 17 countries; incl. ZH, ES, PT, FR, DE, JA, TR, HI, AR, HE, EL and many more
- Normative data
- Normative data for this instrument is held in our reference library. The per-population breakdown is not published here.
- Licence
- open with attribution
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- Reference
- Steger, M. F., Frazier, P., Oishi, S., & Kaler, M. (2006). The Meaning in Life Questionnaire: Assessing the presence of and search for meaning in life. Journal of Counseling Psychology, 53(1), 80-93.
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