Abstract:

This study aimed to explore the mediation effect of search for meaning between absence of meaning and meaning in life, and tested the role of satisfaction of psychological need in this process via two-wave data. The sample consisted of 156 university students. Participants reported absence of meaning, search for meaning and psychological need satisfaction at time 1 and reported meaning in life at time 2. Results indicated that search for meaning played a partial mediating role between absence of meaning and meaning in life, and psychological need satisfaction moderated relationship between meaning thinking and meaning in life. Under low-level of psychological need satisfaction, search for meaning was strongly associated with meaning in life. With increased satisfaction of psychological need, positive effect of search for meaning on meaning in life become insignificant.

Key words: absence of meaning, search for meaning, meaning in life, psychological need satisfaction

摘要：

探索意义缺失通过引起意义寻求影响生命意义感的中介路径, 并分析基本心理需要满足对该过程的影响。采用两个时间点的半纵向设计, 在大学生群体中间隔一个月收取问卷数据, 在第一个时间点施测意义缺失、意义寻求和心理需要满足量表, 第二个时间点施测生命意义感量表, 共追踪有效问卷156份。结果表明: 意义寻求在意义缺失和生命意义感之间起到部分中介作用, 基本心理需要满足在意义寻求和意义感之间起到调节作用, 基本心理需要满足水平较低时, 意义寻求将显著提升意义感, 随着心理需要满足水平的提高, 意义寻求对意义感的促进作用减弱。

关键词: 意义缺失, 意义寻求, 生命意义感, 基本心理需要满足