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The Relationship between Meaning in Life and the Childhood Family Environment among Emerging Adults
This study investigates the impact of the childhood family environment on reported meaning in life among emerging adults (n = 507) at a private, urban, religious university. This study found that participants who reported growing up in an emotionally warm family environment ultimately reported more...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10252346/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37297549 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph20115945 |
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author | Dameron, Emily Goeke-Morey, Marcie C. |
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description | This study investigates the impact of the childhood family environment on reported meaning in life among emerging adults (n = 507) at a private, urban, religious university. This study found that participants who reported growing up in an emotionally warm family environment ultimately reported more meaning in life as adults and that this effect was mediated by loneliness. This suggests that people from emotionally cold and rejecting early family environments may struggle with meaning in life as adults because they are lonelier. This research contributes a developmental perspective to understanding meaning in life. The public health implications of these findings are discussed. Future research should consider accounting for the effects of early life experiences on meaning in life. |
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spelling | pubmed-102523462023-06-10 The Relationship between Meaning in Life and the Childhood Family Environment among Emerging Adults Dameron, Emily Goeke-Morey, Marcie C. Int J Environ Res Public Health Article This study investigates the impact of the childhood family environment on reported meaning in life among emerging adults (n = 507) at a private, urban, religious university. This study found that participants who reported growing up in an emotionally warm family environment ultimately reported more meaning in life as adults and that this effect was mediated by loneliness. This suggests that people from emotionally cold and rejecting early family environments may struggle with meaning in life as adults because they are lonelier. This research contributes a developmental perspective to understanding meaning in life. The public health implications of these findings are discussed. Future research should consider accounting for the effects of early life experiences on meaning in life. MDPI 2023-05-24 /pmc/articles/PMC10252346/ /pubmed/37297549 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph20115945 Text en © 2023 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Dameron, Emily Goeke-Morey, Marcie C. The Relationship between Meaning in Life and the Childhood Family Environment among Emerging Adults |
title | The Relationship between Meaning in Life and the Childhood Family Environment among Emerging Adults |
title_full | The Relationship between Meaning in Life and the Childhood Family Environment among Emerging Adults |
title_fullStr | The Relationship between Meaning in Life and the Childhood Family Environment among Emerging Adults |
title_full_unstemmed | The Relationship between Meaning in Life and the Childhood Family Environment among Emerging Adults |
title_short | The Relationship between Meaning in Life and the Childhood Family Environment among Emerging Adults |
title_sort | relationship between meaning in life and the childhood family environment among emerging adults |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10252346/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37297549 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph20115945 |
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