Purpose in Life Test.

PIL

What it measures

Degree of experienced meaning and purpose in life vs existential vacuum (operationalising Frankl's logotherapy / 'noogenic neurosis' concept).

Length and format

20 (Part A attitude scale; the full test also has open-ended Parts B and C). 7-pt semantic-differential / bipolar items (self-report questionnaire)

Language versions

Translated into many languages over 50+ years incl. ES, ZH, JA, DE, FA, AR and others

Normative data

No normative data held in our reference library for this instrument. That is a statement about our library, not about the published literature.

Licence

copyrighted - commercial

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Reference

Crumbaugh, J. C., & Maholick, L. T. (1964). An experimental study in existentialism: The psychometric approach to Frankl's concept of noogenic neurosis. Journal of Clinical Psychology, 20(2), 200-207.