Editing Nostalgia (section)

===Providing existential meaning===
Nostalgia helps increase one's self-esteem and meaning in life by buffering threats to well-being and also by initiating a desire to deal with problems or stress. Routledge (2011) and colleagues found that nostalgia correlates positively with one's sense of meaning in life. The second study revealed that nostalgia increases one's perceived meaning in life, which was thought to be mediated by a sense of social support or connectedness. Thirdly, the researchers found that threatened meaning can even act as a trigger for nostalgia, thus increasing one's nostalgic reflections. By triggering nostalgia, though, one's defensiveness to such threat is minimized as found in the fourth study. The final two studies found that nostalgia is able to not only create meaning but buffer threats to meaning by breaking the connection between a lack of meaning and one's well-being. Follow-up studies also completed by Routledge in 2012 not only found meaning as a function of nostalgia, but also concluded that nostalgic people have greater perceived meaning, search for meaning less, and can better buffer existential threat.<ref>{{cite journal | last1 = Routledge | first1 = C. | last2 = Arndt | first2 = J. | last3 = Wildschut | first3 = T. | last4 = Sedikides | first4 = C. | last5 = Hart | first5 = C. M. | year = 2011 | title = The past makes the present meaningful: Nostalgia as an existential resource |url=https://eprints.soton.ac.uk/183875/1/Routledget_et_al._2011%25252C_JPSP%2520%25282%2529.doc| journal = Journal of Personality and Social Psychology | volume = 101 | issue = 3| pages = 638–652 | doi = 10.1037/a0024292 | pmid = 21787094 }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal | last1 = Routledge | first1 = C. | last2 = Wildschut | first2 = T. | last3 = Sedikides | first3 = C. | last4 = Juhl | first4 = J. | last5 = Arndt | first5 = J. | year = 2012 | title = The power of the past: Nostalgia as a meaning-making resource |url=https://eprints.soton.ac.uk/341658/1/Routledge%252C_Wildschut%252C_Sedikides%252C_Juhl%252C_%2526_Arndt%252C_2012_Memory.eprints.docx| journal = Memory | volume = 20 | issue = 5| pages = 452–460 | doi = 10.1080/09658211.2012.677452 | pmid = 22639901 | s2cid = 15357239 }}</ref>