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The sense of meaning in life is an experience that is considered desirable by the anxious human being of today’s society. This has been noted by researchers in the field of mental health due to the effect that having meaning has on people’s satisfaction and welfare. The present study aims to study the phenomenological methods and styles in people’s lives that lead to the experience of meaning. The present study was a qualitative research using latent thematic analysis method. The research performed semi-structural interviews in 5 focus groups with 33 participants and investigated college Student experiences about meaning in life and methods to achieve them. The six phase strategy of Brown and Clark (2006) was used to extract themes. After analyzing the results, one main theme, two themes and three subthemes was extracted. The main theme is “meaning worktool”, the themes are: “mindfulness” and “responsible action”, and the subthemes are: “agency attitude”, “action”, and “continuity”. The results of this study will be able to help make the experience of meaning accessible to individuals, both in the form of education and treatment that can be cited by experts.

The current research was a developmental study of the quality of adolescent relationships with the same and opposite sex friends. 182 boys and girls adolescents aged 13, 15 and 17 studying in the academic year of 2010-2011 were selected based on available sampling from Tehran and responded to the Network of Relationship Inventory (NRI; Furman & Buhrmster, 1985). Data analysed using MANOVA and ANOVA demonstrated that girls reported affection and disclosure as the most important quality in their friendship with same-sex ones and affection and companionship with opposite-sex ones. For boys the most important quality in their friendship with the same-sex was reported as companionship and nurturance and with opposite-sex affection and nurturance. In both groups of adolescents the quality of relationship with the same- sex was significantly affected by age and gender, while the effect of age on the quality of relationship with the opposite-sex was not significant. Furthermore adolescents without opposite-sex friends showed better relationship quality with their fathers than their peers with opposite-sex friends.