Use of the Life Purpose Questionnaire with an alcoholic population

This paper examines the potential use of the Life Purpose Questionnaire (LPQ), which is an uncomplicated paper-and-pencil instrument designed to measure an individual's sense of life meaning. Sense of life meaning is an important focus of Crumbaugh's logotherapy for alcoholics. Correlations between scores of the LPQ and the more complicated Purpose-in-Life Test are significant for three separate alcoholic groups. Based on these results, it is concluded that the LPQ can be used with alcoholics in order to obtain a quick and readily understandable measure of the individual's sense of life meaning.