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.It provides a nu-merical score for two subscales, one called the Presence of Meaning andthe other called the Search for Meaning.Read each statement and circle thenumber that most truthfully and accurately describes how you feel about it.Remember that there is no right or wrong answer; whatever you answer isright for you.12 345 67absolutely mostly some- can t some- mostly absolutelyuntrue untrue what say true what true trueuntrue or false true1.I understand my life s meaning.1 2 3 4 5 6 72.I am looking for something that makes 1 2 3 4 5 6 7my life feel meaningful.3.I am always looking to find my life s 1 2 3 4 5 6 7purpose.4.My life has a clear sense of purpose.1 2 3 4 5 6 75.I have a good sense of what makes 1 2 3 4 5 6 7my life meaningful.6.I have discovered a satisfying life 1 2 3 4 5 6 7purpose.7.I am always searching for something 1 2 3 4 5 6 7that makes my life feel significant.8.I am seeking a purpose or mission for 1 2 3 4 5 6 7my life.*9.My life has no clear purpose.1 2 3 4 5 6 710.I am searching for meaning in my life.1 2 3 4 5 6 7274 AppendixBefore calculating your scores on the two subscales, first reverse-scorestatement 9,  My life has no clear purpose. If you circled a 1, change it toa 7.Change a 2 to a 6, a 3 to a 5, a 6 to a 2, and a 7 to a 1.If you gave your-self a 4, leave it as a 4.Use the new number when doing the addition for thePresence of Meaning score.The Presence of Meaning subscale measures the degree to which you as-cribe meaning to your life right now.To find it, add the numerical valuesyou circled for statements 1, 4, 5, 6, and 9.My Presence of Meaning scoreis ___.The Search for Meaning subscale measures the degree to which you consis-tently search for meaning in your life exploring, finding, and creatingmeaning.To find it, add the numerical values you circled for statements 2,3, 7, 8, and 10.My Search for Meaning score is ___.Steger, M.F., Frazier, P., Oishi, S., & Kaler, M.(2006).The Meaning inLife Questionnaire: Assessing the presence of and search for meaning inlife.Journal of Counseling Psychology, 53,Making Sense of Your Curiosity andWell-Being Profile ScoresNow you have determined the degree to which you are a curious explorer(with the Curiosity and Exploration Inventory-II), your basic psychologi-cal needs are satisfied (with the Basic Psychological Needs Scale), youwork with instead of avoid negative feelings such as anxiety and showsigns of psychological flexibility (with the Acceptance and Action Ques-tionnaire-II), and your life is meaningful and you are actively searching formeaning (with the Meaning in Life Questionnaire).To make sense of yourscores, it is useful to compare yourself to the  average person. The peopleyou consider your comparison group depend on what is important to you:gender, sexual orientation, race and ethnicity, region of the world in whichyou are living, occupation, and so on.To keep it simple, I am only going tobe focusing on age.If you want to know more about your score, you canfind more information in the articles that I list in this book and on my web-site, www.mason.gmu.edu/tkashdan.Appendix 275Keep in mind that these measures are not the only tools to measurecuriosity and well-being.Rather, they have been shown to be useful inscientific research and are the easiest to use in a book format.The impor-tant thing to remember is that no matter how you score on these instru-ments, using the exercises in this book, you can become more curious andattain greater fulfillment in your life.Curiosity and Exploration Inventory-IIThe average adult completing this questionnaire scores about 17.5 on theStretching, and 15.5 on the Embracing elements of curiosity.This means thatif you score above either of these numbers, you are scoring higher than ap-Basic Psychological Needs ScaleIf you score above 34 in satisfying Autonomy needs, 30 in satisfying Com-petence needs, and 44.5 in satisfying Relatedness needs, this means thatAcceptance and Action Questionnaire-IIAs for psychological flexibility, college students and older adults in thecommunity tend to score higher (averaging a bit below 51) than adults intreatment for emotional difficulties (averaging a bit below 40).If your scoreis higher than people in these comparison groups, then you are able to con-tact the present moment and the thoughts and feelings it contains withoutneedless defense, and show greater psychological flexibility in persistingtoward valued goals than the  average person.Meaning in Life QuestionnaireAs for meaning in life, age matters much more than the other elements ofwell-being.When it comes to the presence of meaning in life, teenagerstend to score lower (averaging about 21), college students tend to score276 Appendix(averaging close to 25), and older adults aged 65 and up score the highest(averaging a bit below 27).If your score is higher than people in your agegroup, then you recognize greater meaning in your life than the  averageperson.lower (averaging close to 23), and older adults aged 65 and up score thelowest (averaging a bit above 21).The next two instruments map onto the discussion of values, interests,passions, and purpose in life discussed in Chapters 5 and 9.These twoinstruments, the Valued Living Questionnaire-II (VLQ-II) and theBULLs-eye Instrument about valued life (BULLI), will help you judgevarious areas of your life as to what is meaningful.These instruments canhelp you clarify the most opportune places to begin discovering a pur-pose.I suggest that you print out multiple copies of these scales instead ofwriting in this book [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]