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This test is rather one-sided because it only purports to measure "meaning." The
deliberate under-emphasis on a person's past (psychoanalytic approaches), hislher
traits (dispositional approaches), and the possibleinfluences ofthe environment
(behaviorist approaches), in contnbutingto a person's sense and/orperception of
meaning, are obviously lackingin this test. Itagainunderlines the presuppositions
and theoretical-philosophical beliefsthatlogotherapists apply in praxis.
The subjective, and at times, idiosyncratic emphasis, on what the subjectbelieves and
is experiencing, underlines the phenomenological-existential backgroundoflogothe­
rapists. Although this test can be regardedas a "sincere" logotherapeutic-psychome­
tric attempt from Giorgi, to more preciselymeasure the difficulties in finding
meaning in exceptional difficult coping-circumstances, the realitytoday is that it
is rarelyused on a largescale.
Whatis absentin this test is inter alia the important role ofpast behaviorin the life of
the patient/client that was shaped and/or influenced by his/her drives and/or instincs
(traditional psychoanalytic point ofview), the role ofsignificant others (object­
relations), and the important role ofthe environment in determining behavior
(behaviorism). It seems that the rather "subjective" interpretation and perception of
"meaning" by the client/patient in this test, is not outside the line ofthoughtofthose
moving within phenomenological-existential circles.
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