Research Unit of General Practice, University of Southern Denmark, , J. B. Winsløwsvej 9A, 5000, Odense C, Denmark.
Department for the Study of Culture, University of Southern DenMark & Research Unit of General Practice, Odense, Denmark.
J Relig Health. 2022 Aug;61(4):3276-3301. doi: 10.1007/s10943-021-01253-2. Epub 2021 Apr 18.
"The existential" is a concept that many people use albeit associated with different meanings. In order to increase research-based insight into the meaning of "the existential," we conducted a questionnaire study in Denmark in 2018 in which we asked 1.106 Danes of various age, gender, educational and geographical background about personal associations linked to "the existential." Factor analysis of the answers resulted in three different groups of meaning: (1) essential meanings of life, (2) spirituality/religiosity and (3) existential thinking. The findings show that "the existential" serves well as an overarching construct potentially including secular, spiritual and religious meaning domains, at least within the European context.
“存在主义”是一个许多人使用的概念，尽管其含义有所不同。为了增加对“存在主义”含义的基于研究的深入了解，我们于 2018 年在丹麦进行了一项问卷调查研究，我们向来自不同年龄、性别、教育和地理背景的 1106 名丹麦人询问了与“存在主义”相关的个人联想。对答案进行因子分析后，得出了三个不同的意义群体：（1）生命的基本意义，（2）灵性/宗教性，（3）存在主义思维。研究结果表明，“存在主义”很好地作为一个总体构建，可以包含世俗、精神和宗教意义领域，至少在欧洲背景下是这样。
