Developing an Educational Package for the Meaning of Life for Teenagers Based on Islamic Teachings and Its Effectiveness

The current research was conducted with the purpose of developing an educational package for the meaning of life for teenagers based on Islamic teachings and its effectiveness. The research method was a mixed approach (qualitative and quantitative) and content analysis and experimental methods were applied. In the qualitative part, the religious-psychological inference method was carried out. The population consisted of all 16 to 17-year-old teenagers who lived in Qom. In this research, 30 participants were randomly selected and divided into two control and experimental groups. The educational package was implemented in ten sessions for the experimental group. The meaning of life questionnaire (Steger, 2010) was used to collect data. The findings in the qualitative part showed that the educational package of the meaning of life has three main components: self-discovery, meaning-making, and realization. In the quantitative part, covariance analysis showed that there was a significant difference between the two control and experimental groups in the two dimensions of "searching for the meaning of life" and "presence of the meaning of life" in the post-test (p=0.01). Accordingly, teaching about the meaning of life has reduced the "search dimension" and increased the "presence dimension". Eta squared also showed the amount of effect depending on the meaning of life had a 44% effect on the presence dimension of the experimental group.