Hey, I'm doing a chapter on Awe and well-being - I've included a link to your chapter because experiencing awe may be one way to facilitate a sense of meaning in life. Perhaps link back to mine too if you like? Was just reading this article for my chapter and thought it might be useful for you - it proposes a model that breaks meaning into three aspects - coherence, purpose, and significance. Could be good to explore each aspect separately in your chapter - as they each have a slightly different relationship with happiness.
Martela, F., & Steger, M. F. (2016). The three meanings of meaning in life: Distinguishing coherence, purpose, and significance. The Journal of Positive Psychology, 11, 531-545. doi:10.1080/17439760.2015.1137623
There's also some really cool research about how self-transcendence helps meaning-making that you might be able to use - check out this review for more info " --u3122707 (discuss • contribs) 22:18, 15 October 2017 (UTC)Reply
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One summarised with links, but link can be improved - the best links go to direct evidence of the contributions made. View the page history, select the version of the page before and after your contributions, click compare selected revisions, and then use this website address as a direct link to evidence for listing on your user page. For more info, see the book chapter author guidelines.
Reasonably well developed 2-level heading structure, however the first couple of sections after the Overview can be briefly summarises with internal wiki links to more info, allowing this chapter to focus in a more dedicated fashion on the relationship between the concepts. This is one of the more common, major bits of feedback - i.e., avoid providing too much background/generic material so that the chapter focusses most of the content (theory, research, and examples) on directly answering the core question posed by the sub-title of chapter.
Sections which include sub-sections should also include an overview paragraph (which doesn't need a separate heading) before branching into the sub-headings. Having said this, the sub-title includes the question, what is meaning, so this does need to be considered. The most important part, however, is "how does meaning relate to happiness?". To help answer the latter question, consider the types of happiness, , and which types may be most influenced by meaning and why. Also consider how happiness can be enhanced by enhancing meaning.
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Overall, this is an impressive chapter in that it provides very good coverage of relevant theory and research relating separately to happiness and meaning, and about their relationship, with a well-integrated case study.
Avoid one sentence paragraphs. A paragraph should typically consist of three to five sentences.
Layout
Avoid having sections with only one sub-sections.
Sections which include sub-sections should also include an introductory paragraph (which doesn't need a separate heading) before branching into the sub-headings.
Learning features
Adding more interwiki links would make the text more interactive.
Basic use of images.
Basic use of tables.
No use of quizzes.
Very good use is made of an integrated case study.
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The presentation twisted the focus of the chapter from what is the relationship between M and H, to what are the differences between a M and H life.
The presentation conveys the key points from the chapter, but could be more effective by being more selective and presenting less content, with more elaboration e.g., examples.
Presentation consisted of text and narrated audio.
Audio narration is too fast - be more selective and slow down or a more effective presentation.
Text-based slides contained good information, but there was too much text with too much fast audio to really take in effectively as a viewer over the the 3 minutes.
