On the Cultivation of Adolescent’s Sense of Meaning from the Perspective of Positive Psychology

Abstract

Positive psychology studies people's positive psychological qualities, focuses on their health, happiness, and harmonious development. In the perspective of positive psychology, sense of meaning refers to an individual's experience and feeling of their own life, existence, goals, meaning, and value. The "fading" of adolescents' sense of meaning is manifested as feeling that life is boring, having strong and overwhelming emotional suppression, being at a loss for real life problems, and not cherishing life. The main reasons are excessive learning pressure, unfriendly living environment, lack of emotional relief channels, and severe lack of life education. The main path to cultivating adolescents ' sense of meaning is to enable them to gain positive emotional experiences, promote positive life cognition, create a positive social environment, and engage in positive psychological interventions.