Validation of the German version of the meaning in life measure.

ABSTRACT: Despite growing interest in meaning in life as a core construct of eudaimonic well-being, there is a lack of brief and validated self-report scales in the German language. We translated the Meaning in Life Measure (MILM) to German and examined its psychometric properties in two studies. The MILM is an 8-item self-report instrument that assesses the experience of meaning in life (MILM-E) and reflectivity about meaning in life (MILM-R) with two subscales. In Study 1 (N = 1,189), we confirmed that the German MILM-E and MILM-R load on two positively correlated latent factors, replicating the two-factor structure of the original English measure. In Study 2 we conducted a follow-up assessment (N = 300) nine months later, again confirming the fit of the two-factor structure. Additionally, we exam

SUBMITTER: Anoschin A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12622772 | biostudies-literature | 2025

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature