The relationships between growth and meaning in life following adversities: Considering multidimensional aspects of meaning in life Im Sun-Young Dept. of Psychology, Hallym University, Chuncheon-si, Gangwon-do, Republic of South Korea, 24252 Online published on 16 October, 2018. Abstract The purpose of this study was to explore the relationships between posttraumatic growth(PTG) and meaning in life considering multidimensional aspects of meaning in life, which are importance, consistency, and specific sources of meaning in life. Data were collected from the 283 undergraduate students, who answered at 15 minutes-required questionnaires. Descriptive statistics for all the measurements were obtained and correlational analyses were conducted to explore the relationships between PTG and meaning in life by SPSS ver.18.0. And t-test was conducted to compare the characteristics of meaning in life according to the degree of PTG. The results showed that there was a significant difference between two groups (high PTG vs. low PTG) in the scores of importance and consistency of meaning in life. Second, the high PTG group considered ‘physical and psychological health’, ‘self-acceptance and growth’, and ‘relationships with family and friends’ more important than low PTG group, while there was no group-difference in importance for ‘satisfaction at work’, ‘social achievement’, ‘spirituality and religiosity’ and ‘contribution to society’. Third, the high PTG group tend to make their lives more meaningful in the aspects of self-related and interpersonal relational values than the lower. These findings suggest that the relationship between PTG and meaning in life could become different according to which aspects of meaning in life identified and measured. Top Keywords Posttraumatic growth, multidimensional meaning in life, importance, consistency, sources. Top |