Realizing the Meaning of Life among a Sample of the University of Aleppo’s Students

Abstract

The phenomenon of loss of the meaning of life has spread recently among university youth, which made it a social psychological health issue that needs research, as feelings of loss of the meaning of life would negatively affect human life and physical health, and may lead him to depression and addiction to alcohol and drugs, so the research aimed to detect differences in the realization of the meaning of life according to the following demographic variables (educational level, current work), where the researcher used the descriptive-correlational method, and the sample consisted of (401) male and female students from the University of Aleppo, The researcher used the descriptive-correlational method to discover the differences between the sample members according to the study variables. The researcher also prepared a life meaning perception scale based on the scale of Safaa Raji Daher Al-Astal (2020), and the research reached several conclusions, the most important of which were the researcher's findings that there were no statistically significant differences in life meaning perception according to the educational level variable (undergraduate, graduate, postgraduate), and there were statistically significant differences in life meaning perception according to the variable of the current work of the university student Based on the results, a number of suggestions and recommendations were made, the most important of which were highlighting some of the issues of low motivation and apathy experienced by university youth and helping them direct their energies to invest their talents and inclinations, conducting studies on assessing the psychological and intellectual needs of students to develop programs that contribute to understanding the factors affecting the increase in students' awareness of the meaning of their lives.