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The relationship study on age difference between the search for meaning in life, the presence of meaning in life and satisfaction with life: The relationship between meaning level in life and satisfaction with life and the moderating effect of the search for meaning among 10’s, 20’s and 40’s

Korean Journal of Social and Personality Psychology / Korean Journal of Social and Personality Psychology, (P)1229-0653;
2017, v.31 no.1, pp.61-78
https://doi.org/10.21193/kjspp.2017.31.1.004


& (2017). The relationship study on age difference between the search for meaning in life, the presence of meaning in life and satisfaction with life: The relationship between meaning level in life and satisfaction with life and the moderating effect of the search for meaning among 10’s, 20’s and 40’s. Korean Journal of Social and Personality Psychology, 31(1), 61-78, https://doi.org/10.21193/kjspp.2017.31.1.004

Abstract

Meaning in life is an important influencing factor on mental health and well-being throughout the entire life of human. Recently, the psychological effects of the presence of meaning and the search for meaning in life, which are the construct of meaning in life, have been received an attention. This study investigated the relationship between the search for meaning in life, the presence of meaning in life, and satisfaction with life in the three age groups (teenagers, twenties and forties) to suggest differences at the developmental viewpoint. Moderating effects of the search for meaning between the presence of meaning and the satisfaction with life of the age groups were also analyzed. A total of 353 participants (168 males and 185 females) was investigated for this study. The age distribution was as follows: 121 teenagers, 133 twenties, and 99 forties. The results suggested that the search for meaning in life level of teenagers was higher than that of twenties and forties, and the presence of meaning in life of forties was higher than that of teenagers and twenties. Independent relationship between the search for meaning and satisfaction with life showed some positive in twenties, but no relevance in other age groups. The relationship between the presence of meaning and satisfaction with life in twenties and forties was more positive than teenagers. The more the search for meaning has, the more influence effects between the presence of meaning and satisfaction with life in teenagers and twenties, but the tendency was opposite in forties. The results were compared with the foreign study and discussed at the point of developmental view.

keywords
삶의 의미, 의미발견, 의미추구, 발달적 관점, meaning in life, the presence of meaning, the search for meaning, developmental viewpoint

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