ArticleFrontiers in psychology2019
Is Searching for Meaning in Life Related to Civic Engagement?: Individual- and Society-Level Moderators.
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- Prosociality and public support for tobacco control policies among South Korean adults: A cross-sectional study.SSM - population health · 2025Article
- Mortality salience and helping intentions: mediating role of search for meaning and moderating role of negotiable fate.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2025Article
- Life Meaning in a Social Context Among Formerly Homeless Residents of Permanent Supportive Housing.Journal of social distress and the homeless · 2023Article
- Meaning-in-Life Profiles among Chinese Late Adolescents: Associations with Readiness for Political Participation.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021Article
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Abstract
Going beyond previous research suggesting that the search for meaning in life (hereafter "search for meaning") is associated with civic engagement, this study investigated the moderating effects of personal and cultural values on the associations between the search for meaning and two kinds of civic engagement (i.e., pro-environmental engagement and political engagement). Based on the dataset of the sixth wave of the World Values Survey (WVS), multi-level analyses showed that the association between the search for meaning (in terms of thinking about meaning and purpose of life) and pro-environmental engagement was stronger when people held stronger values of openness to change (vs. conservation) and prioritized environmental wellness. The association between the search for meaning and political engagement was stronger when people endorsed stronger values of openness to change, showed a greater interest in politics and attributed greater importance to politics. At the society level, the association between the search for meaning and civic engagement was stronger in societies with a lower power distance. Implications for individual differences of the meaning search are discussed.
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