Abstract
Every life crisis prompts one to eventually bring up and examine the essential existential questions on the meaning of life. Throughout a mid-life crisis, one experiences significant inner turmoil which brings about great changes in the experience of personal identity, i.e., the need for its restructuring and reconstruction. The transformative learning processes gain great importance here. The questions regarding the meaning of life become dominant. The main goal of this research is to identify the changes in the feeling of the meaning of life during a mid-life crisis. We are examining whether the persons going through this period possess a stable feeling of the meaning of their own lives or whether they are still in search of it. We made use of the Meaning of Life Questionnaire (MLQ) in interviewing 600 adult participants, out of which 200 were middle-aged, 200 were young and 200 were older adults. This enabled us to establish differences and specificities in the variations of the feeling of the meaning of life in middle-aged persons. We processed the data using the Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS) software. Furthermore, we implemented the Kruskal-Wallis test to determine the significance of the differences among several groups of participants.
Publisher
Centre for Evaluation in Education and Science (CEON/CEES)
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