Exploring Frankl’s meaning, purpose and value of life in Malaysian university students
This study has been using the Logotherapy approach, a therapy introduced by Viktor Frankl that emphasizes the meaning, purpose and value of life. Frankl’s concept of purpose in life is based on a religious existential foundation which postulated that the essence of human motivation is the will...
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Blue Eyes Intelligence Engineering & Sciences Publication
2019
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| Online Access: | http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/79811/ https://www.ijrte.org/download/volume-8-issue-2s9/ |
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| Summary: | This study has been using the Logotherapy
approach, a therapy introduced by Viktor Frankl that
emphasizes the meaning, purpose and value of life. Frankl’s
concept of purpose in life is based on a religious existential
foundation which postulated that the essence of human
motivation is the will to meaning. Frankl asserted that under any
circumstance, there is a seed of meaning. (Frankl, 1997). The
main purpose of this exploration study is to identify the meaning,
purpose and value in life among university students in Malaysia.
Based on Frankl’s (1953) theory of purpose in life, Crumbaugh
and Maholick (1964) developed the Purpose in Life Test (PIL) to
measure the degree a person experiences a sense of meaning,
purpose and value in life. This Purpose in Life Test (PIL) was
psychometrically analyzed using a total number of 2586
university students to quantify the existential concept of
meaning, purpose and value in life. Analysis of the data
presented evidence that the Purpose in Life (PIL) test could be a
larger dimension as well as being a scale in itself. The PIL
showed a good internal consistency (Alpha= 0.930) and factor
analysis revealed three factors which were categorized as
Excitement of Life, Contentedness with life and Purpose and
Goals in Life. |
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