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Measuring the unmeasurable: Psychometric tools for Existential Concerns
Key psychometric instruments for measuring existential concerns: meaning in life, existential isolation, and existential anxiety.
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Evgeny Smirnov
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Sensing a rift in reality: Validation of the self-world existential isolation scale
Roger Young et al. (2026)
- Published
- Feb 19, 2026
- DOI
- 10.1016/j.paid.2026.113716
At a GlanceAI
Validates a scale measuring self–world existential isolation, capturing a perceived rift between one’s inner experience and shared reality.
SummaryAI
The paper introduces and validates the Self–World Existential Isolation Scale, aimed at assessing the feeling that one’s subjective experience is fundamentally disconnected from others and the broader world. By operationalizing this “rift in reality,” it helps distinguish existential isolation from more familiar forms of social isolation or loneliness. The scale offers researchers a dedicated tool to study how this specifically existential disconnection relates to well-being and other psychological outcomes. It also supports clearer measurement in existential psychology by refining how existential isolation is defined and quantified.
Method SnapshotAI
Scale development and psychometric validation of a questionnaire measure.
BackgroundAI
Basic existential psychology concepts (existential isolation vs loneliness) and foundational psychometrics.
At last, something really close to the concept of existential isolation
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