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Minimalist Lifestyle : = A Modifier of Meaning and Mental Health.

Record Type:	Language materials, manuscript : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Minimalist Lifestyle :/
Reminder of title:	A Modifier of Meaning and Mental Health.
Author:	Minter, Alexander Augustus.
Description:	1 online resource (202 pages)
Notes:	Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 85-04, Section: B.
Contained By:	Dissertations Abstracts International85-04B.
Subject:	Psychology. -
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ISBN:	9798380588140

Minimalist Lifestyle : = A Modifier of Meaning and Mental Health.
Minter, Alexander Augustus.

Minimalist Lifestyle :A Modifier of Meaning and Mental Health. - 1 online resource (202 pages)

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 85-04, Section: B.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Fielding Graduate University, 2023.

Includes bibliographical references

Minimalism is a growing subculture in the United States that has been underexamined. The purpose of this study was to identify motivating factors associated with adoption or continuation of a minimalist lifestyle and to explore how a minimalist approach to life modifies meaning and mental health, if at all. The use of an interpretative phenomenological qualitative approach supported an exploration of the perceptions of individuals adhering to a minimalist lifestyle framework including insight into how a minimalist lifestyle modifies meaning and mental health. Narrative interviews were conducted with 15 participants from across the country who were identified and recruited from online minimalist forums. Questionnaire information was utilized to identify participant demographics and minimalist lifestyle choices bringing additional layers of specificity to the studied population. The data obtained provided an understanding of the people that choose a minimalist lifestyle as well as needed insight into the lifestyle itself. First, pre-existing definitions of minimalism were partially supported; however, the data also illuminated a path toward the destabilization of a perspective of minimalism as a singular entity and toward a theory that is both categorical yet inclusive of a developmental process consisting of three associated yet distinct lifestyles: a) conformist minimalism, b) constructivist minimalism, and c) intentionalism. Second, numerous motivating factors for adoption of a minimalist lifestyle were identified and discussed. Third, it does appear that minimalism has the potential to both positively and negatively modify mental health. Fourth, a minimalist lifestyle appears to modify meaning attainment in two distinct ways: a) attainment of meaning content, and b) attainment of meaning process. Finally, this study on a minimalist lifestyle provided data that uncovered a meaning attainment continuum and trajectory previously unidentified in the literature. These findings suggest indiscriminate unification of the three identified lifestyles under a singular title may be confusing and lead not only to a misconception of what minimalism as a lifestyle is but also a misunderstanding of the nuances of the individuals assimilated under an overarching title of minimalism. Therefore, disbursement of the unique stages of a minimalist lifestyle from under the label of minimalism may be indicated to delineate the divergent aspects of these associated yet distinct lifestyles and the individuals living them.

Electronic reproduction.
Ann Arbor, Mich. :
ProQuest,
2024

Mode of access: World Wide Web

ISBN: 9798380588140Subjects--Topical Terms:

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