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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2019
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| author | Ab Razak, Ratna Roshida Adnan, Zatul Himmah Ku Samsu, Ku Hasnita Muhammad, Zarina Lee, Yoke Fee |
| author_facet | Ab Razak, Ratna Roshida Adnan, Zatul Himmah Ku Samsu, Ku Hasnita Muhammad, Zarina Lee, Yoke Fee |
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| description | 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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| spelling | upm.eprints-798112022-11-08T03:22:58Z http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/79811/ Exploring Frankl’s meaning, purpose and value of life in Malaysian university students Ab Razak, Ratna Roshida Adnan, Zatul Himmah Ku Samsu, Ku Hasnita Muhammad, Zarina Lee, Yoke Fee 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. Blue Eyes Intelligence Engineering & Sciences Publication 2019 Article PeerReviewed Ab Razak, Ratna Roshida and Adnan, Zatul Himmah and Ku Samsu, Ku Hasnita and Muhammad, Zarina and Lee, Yoke Fee (2019) Exploring Frankl’s meaning, purpose and value of life in Malaysian university students. International Journal of Recent Technology and Engineering, 8 (2 spec. 9). pp. 450-454. ISSN 2277-3878 https://www.ijrte.org/download/volume-8-issue-2s9/ |
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