Table 3.
Spearman's correlations between the 10 value domains, meaning and life satisfaction measures and “How meaningful” ratings.
| Value Domain | MLQ |
MEMS |
SWLS | Meaningful | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Presence | Search | Comprehension | Purpose | Mattering | |||
| Self-direction | .12∗ | .19∗∗ | .27∗∗ | .21∗∗ | .26∗∗ | .28∗∗ | .23∗∗ |
| Stimulation | .11 | .27∗∗ | .23∗∗ | .24∗∗ | .28∗∗ | .23∗∗ | .19∗∗ |
| Hedonism | .11 | .19∗ | .27∗∗ | .20∗∗ | .25∗∗ | .23∗∗ | .24∗∗ |
| Achievement | .08 | .18∗ | .21∗∗ | .14 | .22∗∗ | .23∗∗ | .20∗∗ |
| Power | .06 | .27∗∗ | .21∗∗ | .11 | .25∗∗ | .27∗∗ | .15 |
| Security | .20∗∗ | .20∗∗ | .37∗∗ | .27∗∗ | .29∗∗ | .34∗∗ | .34∗∗ |
| Conformity | .06 | .21∗∗ | .25∗∗ | .12 | .24∗∗ | .24∗∗ | .14 |
| Tradition | .09 | .29∗∗ | .28∗∗ | .13 | .22∗∗ | .21∗∗ | .24∗∗ |
| Benevolence | .19∗∗ | .16 | .39∗∗ | .20∗∗ | .31∗∗ | .28∗∗ | .33∗∗ |
| Universalism | .13∗ | .30∗∗ | .26∗∗ | .28∗∗ | .28∗∗ | .24∗∗ | .26∗∗ |
Note: N = 276; MLQ = Meaning in Life Questionnaire; MEMS = Multidimensional Existential Meaning Scale; SWLS = Satisfaction With Life Scale; Meaningful = ratings relating to how meaningful participants' experience was; ∗p < .05, ∗∗p < .001 after Bonferroni alpha correction.