ArticleFrontiers in psychology2023
Meaning in life as a protective factor against depression.
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- Purpose in life and depressive symptoms: An individual-participant meta-analysis of >500,000 participants across six world regions.Journal of affective disorders · 2026Pooled it
- The Association Between Childhood Trauma and Meaning in Life: The Mediating Role of Self-Compassion in Iranian Adults.Brain and behavior · 2026Article
- Pathways to Future Depression Among University Students: The Role of Interpersonal Needs, Emotion Regulation and Meaning in Life.International journal of methods in psychiatric research · 2026Article
- Childhood trauma and meaning in life in university freshmen: a chain mediation model and its experimental causal test.BMC psychology · 2026Article
- Network analysis of childhood trauma and meaning in life in adolescents with and without depression.BMC psychology · 2026Article
- Meaning in life and the mental health - addiction spiral: testing a unifying model.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2026Article
- Family cumulative risk and meaning in life among Chinese secondary vocational school students: the mediating role of self-esteem and the moderating role of labor education support perception.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Article
- The dynamic association between depression, psychological flexibility, and meaning in life among medical students: a cross-lagged analysis.BMC psychology · 2025Article
- The relationship between problematic mobile phone use and meaning in life among adolescents: a latent profile analyses.BMC psychology · 2025Article
- The relationship of acculturative stress with meaning in life through the mediating role of difficulties in emotion regulation and meaning-centered coping style among international students in Germany.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Article
- The relationship between Chinese vocational college students' adverse childhood experience and meaning in life: the mediating role of self-esteem and the moderating role of humorous coping.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Article
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- Strengthening the meaning in life among college students: the role of self-acceptance and social support - evidence from a network analysis.Frontiers in psychology · 2024Article
- Psychometric Evaluation of Brief Reason for Living Inventory for Adolescents (BRFL-A) Instrument in the Indonesian Language.Global pediatric health · 2024Article
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Abstract
The main objective of this study was to analyze the mediating role that meaning in life has between emotion dysregulation and depressive symptomatology in Spanish university students. Five hundred and sixty-six Spanish university students participated in the study. All of them completed the Difficulties in Emotion Regulation Scale (DERS), the Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ-9) and the Purpose in Life Test (PIL-10). A mediation model was performed to test the hypothesis that meaning in life mediates the effect of emotional dysregulation on depressive symptomatology in college students. The results show a positive, moderate, and statistically significant correlation between depression and emotional dysregulation. In addition, a negative, moderate, and statistically significant correlation was found between depression and meaning in life, and a negative, small, and statistically significant correlation between emotional dysregulation and meaning in life. Finally, the results of the mediation model evidence the role of meaning in life in different emotional dysregulation strategies and depressive symptomatology. These findings suggest the importance of incorporating the meaning in life variable in the development and implementation of prevention and treatment programs for psychological disorders.
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