Showalter SM, Wagener LM. Adolescents' meaning in life: a replication of DeVogler and Ebersole (1983).
Psychol Rep 2000;
87:115-26. [PMID:
11026399 DOI:
10.2466/pr0.2000.87.1.115]
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Abstract
Previous studies have indicated that adolescents understand the concept of meaning in life and can apply it to their lives. In this study we examined how religious adolescents differ in their self-reports of meaning in life compared to adolescents previously studied. It is expected that adolescents in a Christian community more frequently attribute their meaning in life to beliefs than will adolescents in the non-Christian population. 81 adolescents from a religious summer camp reported commitment to a belief as their strongest personal meaning more frequently than any other category when reported in a free-response essay format, whereas no adolescents in the previous study reported belief as their strongest meaning.
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