Exploring Existential Meaning: Optimizing Human Development Across the Life Span

Author: Gary T. RekerPublisher: SAGE Publications, IncPaperback:ISBN 10: 076190994XISBN 13: 978-0761909941Hardcover:ISBN 10: 0761909931ISBN 13: 978-0761909934Both implicit and existential meaning are important constructs in fully understanding human experience. The editors of this volume present a forum for an array of viewpoints and recent research that address the notion of optimal human growth. About the Author Gary T. Reker, Ph.D. was born in Hamm, West Germany in 1942. He obtained his B.A. (1965) from McMaster University and his M.A.Sc. (1970) and Ph.D. (1973) from the University of Waterloo. He has been at Trent University since 1972 and retired as Professor Emeritus in Psychology in 2008. He is married to Dorothy and they have three grown daughters and six grandchildren. As a life-span developmental psychologist, his teaching and research interests have focussed on the aging process, specifically on the rol