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Relationships Between the Life Satisfaction, Meaning in Life, Hope and COVID-19 Fear for Turkish Adults During the COVID-19 Outbreak

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Karataş, Zeynep, Uzun, Kıvanç, Tagay, Özlem·2021·Frontiers in Psychology
DOI 10.3389/fpsyg.2021.633384PMC PMC7990893
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The current study investigated whether there are significant relationships between life satisfaction and meaning in life, hope and COVID-19 fear and the extent to which life satisfaction is predicted by these variables. The study group of this research consists of 1,186 adults with the mean age of 41.04. Study group participants are consists of different cities of different regions of Turkey. As the data collection tools, the life satisfaction scale, the meaning in life scale, the dispositional hope scale and the COVID-19 fear scale were used. The results of the analyses have revealed that meaning in life, hope (actuating thinking and alternative ways thinking) are significant predictors of life satisfaction as positively. Besides, it is seen COVID-19 fear, age, gender and the presence of people infected with COVID-19 around aren't significant predictors of life satisfaction in adults.

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  • Accepting uncertainty tends to promote finding meaning associated with coherence, resilience, well-being, and value clarification.

    “Accepting the uncertainty of a situation tends to promote finding meaning associated with coherence, resilience, well-being, and value clarification (Karataş et al., 2021;Polizzi et al., 2020).”

    From RESILIENCE, COPING, AND THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC ACROSS THE GLOBE – AN UPDATE: WHAT HAVE WE LEARNED? (2023) · cites this paper as Karataş et al., 2021

    The Introduction links meaning in life with resilience and well-being, and the Discussion says meaning in life predicts life satisfaction during the pandemic. But the paper does not say that accepting uncertainty promotes finding meaning, or connect that process to coherence or value clarification. (LLM, conf=0.85)

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Karataş, Z., Uzun, K., & Tagay, Ö.
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Burdur Mehmet Akif Ersoy Üniversitesi (TR)
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Karataş, Zeynep
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Frontiers in Psychology
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Frontiers Media SA
Published
2021-03-11
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12
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633384-633384
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1664-1078 (ISSN-L)
DOI
10.3389/fpsyg.2021.633384
PMC
PMC7990893
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Topics
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Applied Psychology › Optimism, Hope, and Well-being
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Psychological Well-being and Life Satisfaction
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › COVID-19 and Mental Health
Keywords
life satisfaction, meaning in life, hope, fear of COVID-19, dispositional hope, COVID-19 pandemic, Turkish adults

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