The past makes the present meaningful: nostalgia as an existential resource.
   The present research tested the proposition that nostalgia serves an
   found that nostalgia was positively associated with a sense of meaning
   in life. Study 2 experimentally demonstrated that nostalgia increases a
   sense of meaning in life. In both studies, the link between nostalgia
   nostalgia. Study 4 illustrated that nostalgia, in turn, reduces
   showed that nostalgia disrupts the link between meaning deficits and
   function of nostalgia.