Searching for meaning: religious transitions as correlates of life meaning and purpose in emerging adulthood

IF 1.3 Q3 PSYCHIATRY
Laura Upenieks
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Abstract

ABSTRACT Achieving a sense of life meaning has been proposed as an evolutionary adaptation that promotes the human need for self-actualisation. This study explores how various dimensions of religiosity are associated with life purpose during emerging adulthood, a stage of the life course where religious decline and the search for meaning and purpose intersect. Prior studies on this topic, however, have typically not accounted for across-time fluctuations in religiosity. Therefore, using two waves of data from the National Study of Youth and Religion (NSYR) (2005-2008), we consider how changes in religious attendance and perceived closeness with God are associated with changes in life meaning and purpose. Results suggest that consistent or increasing attendance and closeness with God predict greater life purpose, while declines in attendance associate with lower purpose. We discuss possible mechanism that may underlie our findings within the current religious climate of the United States.
寻找意义:宗教转变与成年初期的生活意义和目的相关
获得生命意义感被认为是一种进化适应,促进了人类对自我实现的需求。本研究探讨了宗教信仰的不同维度如何与成年初期的生活目标相关联,成年初期是人生历程中的一个阶段,在这个阶段,宗教信仰的衰落与对意义和目标的追求交织在一起。然而,先前关于这一主题的研究通常没有考虑到宗教信仰的跨时间波动。因此,我们使用来自全国青年与宗教研究(NSYR)(2005-2008)的两波数据,考虑宗教出席率和与上帝感知亲近程度的变化如何与生活意义和目的的变化相关联。结果表明,持续或增加的出席率和与上帝的亲密关系预示着更大的人生目标,而出席率的下降与低目标有关。我们讨论了可能的机制,这可能是在美国当前的宗教气候下我们的发现的基础。
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