Abstract
The present study is a development of a method of measuring meaning in life depth using outside judges' rating of the participants' in-depth statements describing their meaning. Adequate interrater agreement was obtained when five explicit depth of meaning criteria were utilized. The potential problem of rater bias because of the judges' preference for their own life meanings was discussed. In addition, three other issues previously investigated to some degree were again approached: whether a significant proportion of participants reported a feeling of meaninglessness (they did not), how many different types of meaning in life would be reported (an average of 4.26 were, implying that people do not prefer just one meaning in life), and what percentage of life meanings fell into each of the eight categories previously developed by DeVogler and Ebersole.
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