The Holistic Life-Crafting Model: a systematic literature review of meaning-making behaviors.

ABSTRACT: Pursuing meaningful life experiences is vital for wellbeing and health. Crafting strategies, such as job crafting and work-life balance crafting, have been developed to create meaning in specific life domains. However, these strategies share common underlying behaviors that transcend specific contexts. Building on this understanding, we propose a comprehensive "holistic life-crafting" approach that integrates overlapping behaviors from various crafting strategies. This study aims to clarify the theoretical conceptualization of life-crafting by identifying common strategies and behaviors underlying different meaning-making crafting approaches. Through a systematic literature search of six databases between January and April 2022, we identified 16,479 published records. Using predefined incl

SUBMITTER: van Zyl LE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10701914 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature