Lin Zhengzheng
School of Educational Studies, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Penang, Malaysia.
Front Psychol. 2022 May 17;13:810591. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2022.810591. eCollection 2022.
This study aimed to explore the mechanism of college students' meaning of life. The Emotion Regulation Questionnaire, the Gratitude Questionnaire Six-Item Form, the General Wellbeing Schedule, the Meaning in Life Questionnaire were used as measurement instruments. In total, 1,312 valid responses were obtained. The results showed that the cognitive reappraisal and expression suppression strategies were significantly positively and negatively correlated with gratitude, subjective wellbeing, and the sense of life meaning, respectively. Further, Emotion regulation strategies can affect college students' sense of life meaning through three paths: the mediating effect of gratitude; the mediating effect of subjective wellbeing; the chain mediating effect of gratitude and subjective wellbeing. This study illuminated the roles of gratitude, and subjective wellbeing in influencing the sense of life meaning among the Chinese college students. Limitations and future research directions are discussed.
本研究旨在探讨大学生生命意义的机制。使用情绪调节问卷、感恩问卷六项版、总体幸福感量表、生命意义问卷作为测量工具。共获得1312份有效问卷。结果表明，认知重评和表达抑制策略分别与感恩、主观幸福感和生命意义感显著正相关和负相关。此外，情绪调节策略可通过三条路径影响大学生的生命意义感：感恩的中介作用；主观幸福感的中介作用；感恩和主观幸福感的链式中介作用。本研究阐明了感恩和主观幸福感在中国大学生生命意义感中的作用。并讨论了研究的局限性和未来的研究方向。
