Youth purpose, meaning in life, social support and life satisfaction among adolescents in Singapore and Israel

The Mediation Role of Personal Meaning Profile in The Relationship Between Resilience Capacity and Meaning in Life

“…The findings of many other studies suggest that there is a meaningful relationship between the meaning in life and resilience, (i.e. Grotberg, 2003;Heng et al, 2020;Masten & Reed, 2002;Norman, 2000;Pan et al, 2008) and are consistent with the findings of this study. According to Kim, Lee, Yu, Lee and Ping (2005), having a high level of meaning in life is related both to effective coping strategies and psychological resilience.…”

Measuring Specific Purpose Orientations in Working Adults

“…This dimension of purpose reflects the beyond-the-self component of purpose that is central to the one of the most recognized definition of purpose which was proposed by Damon et al (2003). The others-growth purpose orientation has also been suggested across multiple studies and groups of scholars who has focused their research efforts on examining purpose in adolescents, emerging adults, and adults (e.g., other-focused: Heng et al, 2017Heng et al, , 2020prosocial orientation: Hill et al, 2010;altruistic orientation: Sharma et al, 2018;other-oriented: Summers & Falco, 2020;social dedication: Wang et al, 2020). For example, in a study with Chinese college students, Wang et al (2020) defined this dimension as contribution to others and the world.…”

“…This dimension of purpose orientation is defined as actualizing one's purpose in life through engaging in activities that make oneself a better person. Previous research has identified other forms of selforiented purpose orientations (e.g., self-focused: Heng et al, 2017Heng et al, , 2020self-oriented: Sharma et al, 2017 andSummers &Falco, 2020;self-strengthening: Wang et al, 2020). However, in the present study the self-oriented purpose is characterized by people's drive to purposefully engage in action that could positively transform the inner core of their own life, which according to humanistic philosophers is the key to bringing forth life's limitless strength to persevere amidst adversity (Ikeda, 2017).…”

“…To evaluate orientations for purpose, Summers and Falco (2020, p. 70) created a single item seeking adolescents' selection of one of the following primary reasons to pursue their life's goal: (a) "It is interesting to me; I think I will be good at it [Intrinsic/Self-Oriented]"; (b) "I want to help others and make the world a better place [Intrinsic/Other-Oriented]"; (c) "I want to have a secure job/comfortable income [Extrinsic; Self-Oriented]"; and (d) "I want to make a positive contribution to my community and/or society [Extrinsic; Other-Oriented]." While not variable-centered, Heng et al (2017Heng et al ( , 2020 performed cluster analysis of life goals among Singapore and Israel adolescents, yielding the following purpose clusters of youth: (a) self-and other focused; (b) self-focused; (c) other-focused; and (d) no orientation or no discernible life purpose. Most recently, Wang et al (2020) developed a Chinese life purpose orientation questionnaire to help cultivate and assess different domains of life purpose among Chinese college students.…”

Subjective well-being and social-emotional loneliness of university students: The mediating effect of the meaning of life

“…It could be observed that the direct structure among the variables significantly predict each other in individuals within the same sample group. In addition, the effect of social factors on people's having a meaningful life (Heng et al, 2020) and the effect of having a meaningful life on subjective well-being (You & Lim, 2018) indicate that social and emotional loneliness would predict subjective well-being through the meaning and purpose of life. Domagala-Krecioch and Majerek (2013) stated that individuals who feel the social and psychological effects of loneliness generally have lower levels of satisfaction with their lives and this causes a decrease in their well-being levels.…”