Aging and Adjustment: The Applicability of Logotherapy and the Purpose-in-Life Test

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Viktor Franld's logotherapy aims to help face crisis situations wherein a radical change in status has created a loss of personal identity and purpose in life. This “existential vacuum” is corrected by a systematic exploration of value areas for a new meaning. The Purpose-in-Life Scale (PIL) is designed to measure existential vacuum, and has successfully discriminated predictable differences in this state in a variety of sub-populations. Aging is one such parameter, in which loss of old meanings with retirement and physical failure can be detected with the PIL; and logotherapy can aid in alleviation of this condition.

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