scholarly journals Culture Related Factors May Shape Coping During Pandemics

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ia Shekriladze ◽  
Nino Javakhishvili ◽  
Nino Chkhaidze
Keyword(s):  
Meaning In Life ◽  
Coping Style ◽  
Coping Styles ◽  
Action Planning ◽  
Avoidant Coping ◽  
Search For Meaning ◽  
Clear Cut ◽  
Presence Of Meaning ◽  
Individualism And Collectivism ◽  
Rational Coping

This study aimed to examine how anxiety related to different styles of coping during the COVID-19 pandemic and how these relationships were moderated by the cultural orientations of individualism/collectivism and a person’s sense of meaning in life. A sample of 849 participants from Georgia completed an online survey during the final stage of lockdown. To measure the main variables, we used the State Anxiety Inventory, the Horizontal and Vertical Individualism and Collectivism Scale, the Meaning of Life Questionnaire, the COVID-19 Worry Scale, and the Ways of Coping Scale tailored to COVID-19 pandemic. The latter measured rational coping via the subscales of information accessing/processing and action-planning coping, and affective coping – via the subscales of passive-submissive and avoidant coping. Results suggested that anxiety positively predicted both affective coping styles and negatively predicted the action-planning coping style, while COVID-19 worry predicted all coping styles; presence of meaning in life positively predicted both rational coping styles and negatively predicted the avoidant coping style, while search for meaning positively predicted all coping styles; individualism negatively predicted the passive-submissive style and positively predicted the action-planning style, whereas collectivism predicted all coping styles; furthermore, individualism and collectivism moderated the link between anxiety and the passive-submissive coping style, presence of meaning in life moderated the link between anxiety and avoidant coping style, while search for meaning in life moderated the link between anxiety and the action-planning coping style. Overall, the findings enrich the cultural transactional theory of stress and coping, and generate insights for the culture-sensitive approach to the meaning in life. The results were conceptualized vis-a-vis Georgia’s intermediate position between clear-cut individualism and clear-cut collectivism.

scholarly journals How Does Search for Meaning Lead to Presence of Meaning for Korean Army Soldiers? The Mediating Roles of Leisure Crafting and Gratitude

2022 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jung In Lim ◽  
Jason Yu ◽  
Young Woo Sohn
Keyword(s):  
Meaning In Life ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Equation Modeling ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Search For Meaning ◽  
Daily Lives ◽  
Presence Of Meaning ◽  
Army Soldiers ◽  
The Republic

Many studies demonstrate that finding meaning in life reduces stress and promotes physical and psychological well-being. However, extant literature focuses on meaning in life among the general population (e.g., college students or office workers) in their daily lives. Thus, this study aimed to investigate the mechanisms of how individuals living in life-threatening and stressful situations obtain meaning in life, by investigating the mediating roles of leisure crafting and gratitude. A total of 465 Army soldiers from the Republic of Korea (ROK) participated in two-wave surveys with a 2-week interval. Structural equation modeling analyses indicated that the direct effects between the search for meaning, presence of meaning, leisure crafting, and gratitude were significant, except for the direct relationship between the search for meaning and the presence of meaning, and between leisure crafting and the presence of meaning. We tested indirect effects using a Monte Carlo approach and found that leisure crafting and gratitude sequentially mediated the relationship between the search for meaning and the presence of meaning. Our findings highlight the importance of the motivation behind searching for meaning, the proactive use of leisure time, and gratitude for individuals in stressful situations and controlled lifestyles. Finally, we discuss the implications and limitations of this research and future research directions.

Meaning in life and resilience among teachers

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 97-109
Author(s):  
Maria Platsidou ◽  
Athena Daniilidou
Keyword(s):  
Protective Factors ◽  
Meaning In Life ◽  
Life Quality ◽  
Life Questionnaire ◽  
Social Resilience ◽  
Search For Meaning ◽  
Emotional Resilience ◽  
Presence Of Meaning ◽  
Resilience Process ◽  
Resilience Factors

Meaning in life is a significant resource in the resilience process, supporting the use of adaptive behaviors and enhancing the feeling of wellbeing. As such, it could be critical for teachers who encounter many stressors threatening their life quality and work productivity. This study aimed to investigate how teachers' levels of meaning in life relate to their resilience. Data were collected from 299 teachers using the Meaning in Life Questionnaire (assessing presence of and search for meaning) and the Multidimensional Teacher Resilience Scale (assessing protective factors related to motivational and professional, social, and emotional resilience). As predicted, presence of meaning had medium-sized positive correlations with the resilience factors, whereas search for meaning had low correlations with social resilience and professional-motivational resilience and no correlation with emotional resilience. Using K-means cluster analysis, teachers were grouped into three clusters according to their scores in the two meaning dimensions. The cluster of teachers reporting both high presence of and high search for meaning showed the highest scores on the resilience factors, followed by the cluster including teachers with high presence and low search. In conclusion, our results emphasized the important role of presence of meaning in strengthening resilient responses; also, searching for meaning, when combined with a high sense of meaning, relates to better use of the resilience protective factors and resources. As to the study implications, a meaning-centered approach to building resilience in teachers is suggested and discussed.

scholarly journals Predicting hopelessness by coping styles, depression and meaning in lifeBaşa çıkma stilleri, depresyon ve yaşamda anlamın umutsuzluğu yordama düzeyi

2016 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
pp. 4565 ◽  
Author(s):  
Firdevs Savi Çakar ◽  
Zeynep Karataş ◽  
Özlem Tagay
Keyword(s):  
Teacher Candidates ◽  
Meaning In Life ◽  
Coping Style ◽  
Short Form ◽  
Coping Styles ◽  
Depression Scale ◽  
Pearson Product Moment Correlation ◽  
Beck Hopelessness Scale ◽  
Life Scale ◽  
Senior Students

The aim of this study is to determine whether levels of hopelessness are predicted by variables of coping styles, depression and meaning in life. This research is in survey model and the study was conducted with 152 teacher candidates (68 males, 84 females) who were senior students of the faculty of educational. It is used Beck Hopelessness Scale, Coping Styles Survey Short Form, Beck Depression Scale and Meaning in Life Scale. For the analysis of data, progressive regression analysis and Pearson Product-Moment Correlation Coefficient were used.In this respect, coping style,  depression  andmeaning in life are significantly predicted the sense of students’ hopelessness. ÖzetBu çalışmanın amacı, başa çıkma stilleri, depresyon ve yaşamda anlamın umutsuzluğu anlamlı düzeyde yordayıp yordamadığının saptanmasıdır. Bu araştırma betimsel bir çalışma olup, çalışma grubunu Eğitim Fakültesi son sınıfında okuyan 152 öğretmen adayı oluşturmaktadır. Çalışmada kullanılan ölçme araçları Beck Umutsuzluk Ölçeği, Başa Çıkma Stilleri Ölçeği Kısa Formu, Beck Depresyon Ölçeği ve Yaşamda Anlam Ölçeği’dir. Araştırmanın verilerinin analizi Pearson Momentler Çarpımı Korelasyon Katsayısı ve Aşamalı Regresyon Analizi ile gerçekleştirilmiştir. Bu doğrultuda başa çıkma stilleri, depresyon ve yaşamda anlam eğitim fakültesi son sınıf öğrencilerinin umutsuzluğunu anlamlı düzeyde yordamaktadır.

scholarly journals MEANING IN LIFE IN ELDERLY

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (5) ◽  
pp. 66-68
Author(s):  
Florin Voicu
Keyword(s):  
Life Satisfaction ◽  
Meaning In Life ◽  
Developmental Psychology ◽  
Pearson Correlation ◽  
Correlation Coefficients ◽  
Search For Meaning ◽  
Satisfaction Scale ◽  
Independent Variables ◽  
Presence Of Meaning ◽  
Good Internal Consistency

Aim: Starting from the research of the Austrian psychiatrist Viktor Frankl, the meaning in life proved its importance, being studied in the context of different research traditions, existential psychology, positive psychology, clinical psychology, developmental psychology. This is a pilot study targeting a group of twenty elderly Romanians who live in a Residential Center in Bucharest. Methods: The study assumes that we’ll have statistically significant correlations between independent variables (presence of meaning, search for meaning) and dependent ones (depression, anxiety, stress, life satisfaction). Method: The research uses correlation analysis for the variables: meaning presence and meaning search from M. Steger's MLQ questionnaire, defined as independent variables in the study and dependent variables: depression, anxiety, stress (DASS-21 questionnaire), and life satisfaction (Satisfaction Scale with Life, SWLS). Results: The research results highlight good internal consistency (Cronbach's coefficient α> 0.70) for the two subscales of the M.L.Q. questionnaire. The statistically significant inverse link between the level of stress and the presence of meaning in life is confirmed, the statistically significant inverse link between the total score of depression and the presence of meaning in life is confirmed; the variable life satisfaction is the only dependent variable for which statistically significant links are confirmed with both independent variables simultaneously (presence of meaning in life and search for meaning of life); Pearson correlation coefficients are statistically significant, Sig values, associated, lower than the 5% threshold, require the rejection of the null hypothesis.

scholarly journals People Searching for Meaning in Their Lives Find Literature More Engaging

2018 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
pp. 199-209 ◽  
Author(s):  
James Carney ◽  
Cole Robertson
Keyword(s):  
Meaning In Life ◽  
Need For Cognition ◽  
Literary Text ◽  
Cognitive Factors ◽  
Search For Meaning ◽  
Moderation Analysis ◽  
Presence Of Meaning ◽  
Cognitive Traits ◽  
Literary Materials

Why are some people interested in complex literature and others not? This study experimentally investigated this question by assessing what cognitive traits moderated responses to literary and less-literary fictional vignettes. Specifically, participants were exposed to two variants of a celebrated literary text, one altered so as to remove overtly literary elements. A moderation analysis was performed on responses with respect to three variables: need for cognition (NC); meaning in life (measured in two subscales, search for meaning [SM] and presence of meaning [PM]); and intentionality/mentalizing ability (IM). Results showed that SM moderated interpretive response to the textual variation, such that those with increasing scores on the SM scale were increasingly more likely to rate the literary vignettes as worthy of appreciation. This result, in turn, gave grounds for a second study that investigated the role played by cloze values in identifying a text as “literary.” The latter study showed that the literary and less-literary vignettes exhibited significant differences in cloze values. Taken together, these studies suggest that differences in responsiveness to literary materials may well be driven by preexisting cognitive factors.

Meaning in Life

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael F. Steger
Keyword(s):  
Meaning In Life ◽  
Structural Model ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Important Variable ◽  
Search For Meaning ◽  
Presence Of Meaning ◽  
Making Sense ◽  
First Time

Studies have linked meaning in life with nearly every other way of measuring the quality and well-being of people’s lives. Despite great empirical strides in meaning in life scholarship, conceptualization on the nature or scope of this important variable seems to be exploding rather than integrating. This chapter discusses the recent convergence among theorists that experiencing the presence of meaning consists of comprehension (making sense of one’s experience), purpose (possessing highly valued goals or missions for one’s life), and significance (perceiving one’s life to be worthwhile and to have value). This chapter also focuses attention on the richness of concepts such as search for meaning, sources of meaning, and orientation to meaning. Finally, this chapter proposes a structural model that unifies these concepts for the first time, portraying how they may be related to each other.

scholarly journals Structure and Levels of Meaning in Life and Its Relationship With Mental Health in Chinese Students Aged 10 to 25

2016 ◽  
Vol 10 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wang Xin-qiang ◽  
He Xiao-xin ◽  
Yang Fan ◽  
Zhang Da-jun
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Early Adolescence ◽  
Meaning In Life ◽  
Age Groups ◽  
Chinese Students ◽  
Life Questionnaire ◽  
Search For Meaning ◽  
Presence Of Meaning ◽  
Middle Adolescence ◽  
Meaning In Life Questionnaire

This study examines the usage of the Meaning in Life Questionnaire in Chinese students aged from 10 to 25 within four age groups (N= 5,510): early adolescence (10–13 years old,n= 1,258), middle adolescence (14–17 years old,n= 1,987), late adolescence (18–21 years old,n= 1,950) and early adulthood (22–25 years old,n= 315); and analyses the structure and levels of meaning in life, as well as the relationship between meaning in life and mental health. Results showed that: (1) the Meaning in Life Questionnaire in the four age groups of Chinese students had good construct validity and internal consistency reliability; (2) the average levels of the presence of meaning and search for meaning of Chinese students were moderate or above, and had obvious differences according to gender and family location (i.e., urban vs. rural); (3) the level of presence of meaning showed a trend of rising rapidly in middle adolescence and the level of search for meaning continued to rise in early adolescence and fell rapidly towards the end of adolescence; (4) presence of meaning was positively related to life satisfaction and positive affect and negatively related to depression and negative affect, and the same correlations were found with search for meaning.

scholarly journals Personal Growth and Well-Being in the Time of COVID: An Exploratory Mixed-Methods Analysis

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Juensung J. Kim ◽  
Melanie Munroe ◽  
Zhe Feng ◽  
Stephanie Morris ◽  
Mohamed Al-Refae ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Personal Growth ◽  
Meaning In Life ◽  
Coping Style ◽  
Daily Life ◽  
Extreme Case ◽  
Positive Association ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Presence Of Meaning ◽  
Severe Withdrawal ◽  
Transcendent Wisdom

The physical distancing measures necessitated by COVID-19 have resulted in a severe withdrawal from the patterns of daily life, necessitating significantly reduced contact with other people. To many, such withdrawal can be a major cause of distress. But, to some, this sort of withdrawal is an integral part of growth, a pathway to a more enriching life. The present study uses a sequential explanatory QUAN-qual design to investigate whether people who felt that their lives had changed for the better after being forced to engage in physical distancing, what factors predicted such well-being, and how they spent their time to generate this sense of well-being. We invited 614 participants who reported closely following physical distancing recommendations to complete a survey exploring this topic. Our analyses, after controlling for all other variables in the regression model, found a greater positive association between presence of meaning in life, coping style, and self-transcendent wisdom and residualized current well-being accounting for retrospective assessments of well-being prior to physical distancing. An extreme-case content analysis of participants' personal projects found that participants with low self-transcendent wisdom reported more survival-oriented projects (e.g., acquiring groceries or engaging in distracting entertainments), while participants reporting high self-transcendent wisdom reported more projects involving deepening interactions with other people, especially family. Our findings suggest a more nuanced pathway from adversity to a deeper sense of well-being by showing the importance of not merely coping with adversity, but truly transcending it.

scholarly journals Coping with COVID-19 Pandemic: A Population-Based Study in Bangladesh

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
K M Amran Hossain ◽  
Karen Saunders ◽  
Mohamed Sakel ◽  
Lori Maria Walton ◽  
Veena Raigangar ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Coping Strategies ◽  
Coping Style ◽  
Coping Styles ◽  
Demographic Data ◽  
Male Gender ◽  
Avoidant Coping ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Female Participant ◽  
Brief Cope ◽  
Approach Coping

This study aims to investigate coping strategies used by Bangladeshi citizens during the COVID-19 pandemic. Design: Prospective, cross-sectional survey of adults (N=2001) living in Bangladesh. Methods: Participants were interviewed for socio-demographic data and completed the Bengali translated Brief-COPE Inventory. Statistical data analysis was conducted using SPSS (Version 20). Results: Participants (N=2001), aged 18 to 86 years, were recruited from eight administrative divisions within Bangladesh (mean age 31.85, SD 14.2 years). Male to female participant ratio was 53.4% (n=1074) to 46.6% (n=927). Higher scores were reported for approach coping styles (29.83, SD 8.9), with lower scores reported for avoidant coping styles (20.83, SD 6.05). Humor coping scores were reported at 2.68, SD 1.3, and religion coping scores at 5.64, SD 1.8. Both men and women showed similar coping styles. Multivariate analysis found a significant relationship between the male gender and both humor and avoidant coping (p <.01). Male gender was found to be inversely related to both religion and approach coping (p<.01). Marital status and education were significantly related to all coping style domains (p<.01). The occupation was significantly related to approach coping (p <.01). Rural and urban locations differed significantly in participant coping styles (p <.01). Factor analysis revealed two cluster groups (Factor 1 and 2) comprised of unique combinations from all coping style domains. Conclusion: Participants in this study coped with the COVID-19 pandemic by utilizing a combination of coping strategies. Factor 1 revealed both avoidant and approach coping strategies and Factor 2 revealed a combination of humor and avoidant coping strategies. Overall, higher utilization of approach coping strategies was reported, which has previously been associated with better physical and mental health outcomes. Religion was found to be a coping strategy for all participants. Future research may focus on understanding resilience in vulnerable populations, including people with disabilities or with migrant or refugee status in Bangladesh.

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