| In the positive psychology perspective,happy life is not only pleasure,but also meaningful,that is,the degree of self-realization.The emergence of many teenagers’mental and behavioral problemsand suicidal ideation are related to the lack of meaning of life,in addition,the meaning of life can significantly predict the individual’s happiness,life satisfaction and coping style.During the key period of personality integration and learning development,therefore,it is of great theoretical and practical value to investigate the status quo of the sense of life meaning for middle school students and explore the effective path to improve.As a highly recognized positive personality,there may be a very close relationship between gratitude and life meaning.On the one hand,the individual’s life is given by the parents,so cherishing life means to be fundamentally grateful to their parents to some extent;on the other hand,grateful ones are good at appreciating and digging the beauty of life,so they are more likely to feel the value of existence.So can the gratitude really improve one’s life meaning?What is the specific mechanism?Based on the survey of 450 middle school students,we systematically investigated the characteristics of adolescents’ gratitude,basic psychological needs,life meaning and their dimensions,and analyzed the differences in demographic variables by statistical analysis;then we analyzed the relationship between gratitude,basic psychological needs and meaning life andexamined the mediating role of the basic psychological needs between gratitude and life meaning.Finally,the conclusions are as follows:(1)Middle school students have a strong sense of gratitude,they are in the middle level in the basic psychological needs to meet and the degree of life meaning,there are significant differences in some demographic variables of the three.(2)There is a significant positive correlation between gratitude,basic psychological needs and life meaning for middle school students both in total and their dimensions.(3)The gratitude of middle school students can predict basic psychological needs fulfillment and life meaning,the basic psychological needs fulfillment can also predict life meaning.(4)In general,the basic psychological needs play an intermediary role between gratitude and life meaning. |
