Document Type : Research Paper
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Assistant Professor in Islamic Azad University-BuinZahra Branch
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Man has always been searching for the meaning of life, but nowadays it has become more difficult for him to find it, so psychologists should help people in this way. Current research suggests that if people can see their lives in the form of a hero's journey story, they will find meaning in their lives and their flourishing will increase. In order to test this hypothesis, among the 50,000 mobile phone subscribers in Tehran and Karaj, 533 people (270 men) with an average age of 42 years were conveniently sampled and in an experimental design were randomly assigned into experimental group (whose life stories were restructured in the form of a hero's journey) and control group (who only wrote their life stories). The meaning of life was measured by Crumbaugh & Maholick's test (1964), the view of life as a hero's journey story by Rogers et al.'s scale (2023), and the flourishing by Diener et al.'s test (2010). T-tests showed that looking at life in the form of a hero's journey story, the meaning of life, and flourishing is more in the experimental group than in the control group, and conditional process modeling showed that reconstructing the life story in the form of a hero's journey (independent variable), has increased the meaning of life and flourishing (dependent variables) through looking at life in the form of a hero's journey story (mediating variable). So, the story of the hero's journey is a framework that psychologists can use to guide people in
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