MEANING IN LIFE DAN KONSEKUENSINYA: STUDI PADA STAF PENGAJAR UNIVERSITAS JENDERAL SOEDIRMAN

Abstract

Study on meaning, or widely known as meaning in life commonly studied from the
perspective of existential psychology. Meaning is an important construct since meaning
will help individual in seeking and finding the goals of individual existence. Previous
studies show that meaning is utilized in two context, life meaning and job meaning. We
argue that the two constructs is closely related so that in some studies, both terms
ussually interchangeably used.
The aim of the research is to investigate the consequences of meaning in life.
Field survey is conducted in Universitas Jenderal Soedirman with the sample size of
140 lecturers. The findings are as follows: meaning in life significantly influence job
involvement and lecturer motivation, job involvement significantly influence career
planning, but insignificantly toward career identity, whereas motivation significantly
influence career identity and career planning. The future research could be conducted
to verify current finding, particularly to validate the influence of job involvement
toward career identity.