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INDIVIDUAL AND PARENTAL FACTORS RELATED TO MEANING IN LIFE IN ADOLESCENCE

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Brassai L., Pikó B.
Magyar Pszichologiai Szemle (Hungarian Psychological Review)
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2012
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vol. 67
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issue 2
317-336
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Despite the fact that meaning in life has been portrayed as a highlighted developmental goal in psychology, yet little research has examined its influencing factors in adolescence. In the present study we examined potential individual and parental correlates of meaning in life in a sample of 1944 adolescents (aged between 15–19 years; 47.8 percent males) from secondary schools of Transylvania. While self-efficacy, self-regulation, perceived social support from parents and mother’s responsiveness were positively related to meaning in life, father’s demandingness was negatively related to this variable in the whole sample. However, social comparison was related to meaning in life only among boys, while father’s responsiveness was associated with it only among girls. These findings draw our attention to those socio-cultural influences that may be prevailing in meaning in life through role socialization during adolescence, providing bases for preventive and promoting interventions.
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THE SIGNIFICANCE OF EXISTENTIAL/SPIRITUAL ATTITUDES IN ADOLESCENT HEALTH PREVENTIVE AND RISK BEHAVIORS

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Brassai L., Pikó B.
Magyar Pszichologiai Szemle (Hungarian Psychological Review)
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2010
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vol. 65
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issue 4
597-611
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The role of existential/spiritual domain of personality in adolescent health behavior is an underinvestigated research field in health psychology. The present study is based on the results of a research carried out in a sample of Transylvanian adolescents (N = 406; aged between 15–18 years, mean age = 16.5 year; 42.1% males and 57.9% females) focused on the association between meaning of life and health and risk behaviors. Calculating odds ratios, our analyses revealed an inverse direction in their relationships with searching for meaning of life and hopelessness (for example, for the relationship between searching for meaning and risk behavior: OR = 0.798, 95% CI = 0.674–0.946, p < 0.01; whereas for the relationship with hopelessness: OR = 1.149, 95% CI = 1.032–1.279, p < 0.05). These data point out that searching for meaning in life is not a negative status or a deficiency but on the contrary, it is more a cognitive-motivational structure that is linked to determining meaning. On the other hand, the results highlight that in adolescence the influence of searching for meaning is more determinant in terms of health and risk behaviors than meaning of life itself.
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