Death Awareness and Meaningful Work: Considering Mortality and How It Relates to Individual Perceptions of Work
Description:
While some individuals experience their work as meaningful, others, with the same job, do not. The purpose of this dissertation is to answer the following question: Why do different individuals, with the same job, view the meaningfulness of their work in conflicting ways? I draw on terror management theory and generativity theory to answer this question by testing the relationship between death awareness and meaningful work. The bulk of academic work concerning meaningful work focuses on its ou…
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Date:
August 2022
Creator:
Varghese, Johnson George
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UNT Libraries