2010
DOI: 10.1007/s12529-010-9089-6
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Meaning in Life: Is It a Protective Factor for Adolescents’ Psychological Health?

Abstract: In Romanian adolescents, meaning in life is a protective factor against health risk behaviors and poor psychological health.

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“…Yet, despite exposure to severe hardship, some individuals seem to be resilient to stress and thus protected against its adverse health effects. In study 5 by Brassai et al, the focus is on coherent meaning as a protective factor for health risk behaviors and psychological health in a largely unstudied population of adolescents in Romania [8]. In line with previous research, meaning in life appeared to serve as a protective factor against several health risk behaviors and poor psychological health among the studied adolescents.…”
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“…Yet, despite exposure to severe hardship, some individuals seem to be resilient to stress and thus protected against its adverse health effects. In study 5 by Brassai et al, the focus is on coherent meaning as a protective factor for health risk behaviors and psychological health in a largely unstudied population of adolescents in Romania [8]. In line with previous research, meaning in life appeared to serve as a protective factor against several health risk behaviors and poor psychological health among the studied adolescents.…”
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“…Within the framework of social determinants of health the aim of the Editorial for this issue of International Journal of Behavioral Medicine is to emphasize six studies of psychological and social conditions under different phases of life in relation to a number of health-related outcomes as illustrated in Fig. 2 [3][4][5][6][7][8].…”
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“…Ugyanakkor lát-hatjuk, hogy a spirituális kérdések jelentôsége napjaink társadalmában is kiemelten fontos és az életminôség, a jóllét meghatározó eleme, amely be-folyásolja önmagunkhoz és másokhoz, az élet értelméhez és valamilyen transzcendens hatalomhoz való viszonyunkat (Gomez & Fisher, 2003;Tsuang és mtsai, 2007). Az élet értelmének keresése serdülôkorban külö-nösen meghatározó, hiszen ebben a korban az identitásfejlôdéssel össze-függésben a figyelem gyakran fókuszál olyan kérdésekre, mint az élet ér-telme vagy a személyes élet célja (Brassai, Pikó, & Steger, 2011). George és munkatársai felvetik, hogy az élet értelmébe vetet hitnek és az életcélok meglétének (azaz az egzisztenciális jóllétnek) serdülôkorban olyannyira kitüntetett szerepe van, hogy egyfajta mediátorként mûködhet a vallás/ spiritualitás és az egészség kapcsolatában (George, Ellison, & Larson, 2002).…”
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“…As used herein, the issue of possible quantitative measuring of the meaning of life never comes up, however, the qualitative particularity of the meaning of life's content (Dezutter et al, 2014), its correlation to the psychological health and well-being (Brassai et al, 2011;Debats, 1996), to the mental states (Prokhorov, 2009), cross-cultural differentials in the meaning of life and axiological structures of personality (Salikhova, 2013) have already been all-sided explored.…”
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confidence: 99%