In order to understand the overall status and characteristics of individual meaning in life during early a-dulthood,a total of 1087 freshmen and sophomores was surveyed on three aspects of meaning in life:presence of meaning;search for meaning;crisis of meaning.These results indicated that(1)Overall,individuals in early a-dulthood have no crisis of meaning,while presence of meaning was an about medium level,search for meaningwas about above a medium level and significantly higher than presence of meaning;(2)Presence of meaning was on the rise within a year,while search for meaning and crisis of meaning remained relatively stable,but the undergraduates' crisis of meaning was on the rise compared to junior college students;(3)There were significant differences between search for meaning and crisis of meaning in the family's socio-economic status(SES).Spe-cifically,those who perceived medium family's SES were significantly higher than those who perceived low ones in search for meaning;And those who perceived low family's SES were significantly higher than those who perceived medium ones,and marginally higher than those who perceived high ones in crisis of meaning;(4)Presence of meaning and crisis of meaning significantly predicted with each other,while search for meaning and crisis of mean-ing did not.The present results suggested that individual's meaning in life was characterized by multiple factors.For the purpose of preventing individual's crisis of meaning in early adulthood,more attention should be paid to students in the middle and low family's SES,and the crisis of meaning could be prevented by improving their pres-ence of meaning.
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生命意义/拥有意义/追寻意义/意义危机/成年初期
Key words
Meaning in life/Presence of Meaning/Search for Meaning/Crisis of Meaning/Early Adulthood
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