Acceptance of personal limitations:

Wong, P. T. P. (1998). Implicit theories of meaningful life and the development of the Personal Meaning Profile (PMP). In P. T. P. Wong & P. Fry (Eds.), The human quest for meaning: A handbook of psychological research and clinical applications (pp. 111-140). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc.

The wisdom of positive acceptance: http://www.meaning.ca/archives/presidents_columns/pres_col_feb_2004_positive-acceptance.htm

Accepting our personal mortality:

See Acceptance of Personal Mortality section for full versions of select articles.

Wong, P. T. P., Reker, G. T., & Gesser, G. (1994). Death Attitude Profile – Revised: A multidimensional measure of attitudes toward death. In R. A. Neimeyer (Ed.), Death anxiety handbook: Research, instrumentation, and application (pp. 121-148). Washington, DC: Taylor & Francis.

Gesser, G., Wong, P. T. P., & Reker, G. T. (1987-88). Death attitudes across the life span. The development and validation of the Death Attitude Profile (DAP). Omega, 2, 113-128.

Wong, P. T. P., Tomer, A. & Neimeyer. R. (in press). Beyond terror and denial: The positive psychology of death acceptance. Death Studies.

From death anxiety to death acceptance: A meaning management model: http://www.meaning.ca/archives/archive/art_death-acceptance_P_Wong.htm

Wong, P. T. P. (2008). Meaning management theory and death acceptance. In A. Tomer, E. Grafton, & P. T. P. Wong (Eds.), Death attitudes: Existential & spiritual issues. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

Acceptance as a coping strategy:

Wong, P. T. P. (1993). Effective management of life stress: The resource-congruence model. Stress Medicine, 9, 51-60.

Wong, P. T. P., Reker, G. T. & Peacock, E. (2006). The resource-congruence model of coping and the development of the Coping Schemas Inventory. In Wong, P. T. P., & Wong, L. C. J. (Eds.), Handbook of Multicultural perspectives on stress and coping.  New York, NY: Springer.

Dobson, W. L., & Wong, P. T. P. (2008). The role of existential and spiritual coping by women with HIV/AIDS. In A. Tomer, E. Grafton, & P. T. P. Wong (Eds.), Death attitudes: Existential & spiritual issues. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

Ivancovich, D. A., & Wong, P. T. P. (2008). The role of existential and spiritual coping in anticipatory grief. In A. Tomer, E. Grafton, & P. T. P. Wong (Eds.), Death attitudes: Existential & spiritual issues. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

Acceptance as a key to tragic optimism:

A paper on Viktor Frankl's construct of tragic optimism: http://www.meaning.ca/archives/archive/art_frankl_prophet_P_Wong.htm

Acceptance as a key component in meaning therapy:

Wong, P. T. P. (2010).  Meaning therapy: An integrative and positive existential psychotherapy. Journal of Contemporary Psychotherapy.  40(2), 85-99.

Wong, P. T. P. (2008). Transformation of grief through meaning: Meaning-centered counseling for bereavement. In A. Tomer, E. Grafton, & P. T. P. Wong (Eds.), Death attitudes: Existential & spiritual issues. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

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