Özet:

Searching for meaning is an important effort in the individual’s life. Religion is one of the most important factors in the understanding of the life of individuals. It is important for individuals to be aware of religion and to help them understand life. The purpose of the study is to study the contribution of religious education they receive to the youth’s search for meaning, the period in which life’s search for meaning is the most intense. In the study that participants were selected by random sampling method from students of the Islamic Faculty of Karatekin University, the extent of meaning and purpose of life was measured by how young people understand the level of life. The obtained data was analyzed with the SPSS for Windows program, and the Mann Whitney U Test and Kruskal Wallis test statistics were used to evaluate the data obtained from scale. The scores that participants obtain from the Meaning and Purpose Scale of Life are studied in terms of independent variables. However, the period of religious education that the participants receive, the relationship between the level in which they feel religious and where they receive religious education primarily and the meaning they put into life, has been studied. The conclusion is that young people are above the average score they get from the scale of meaning and purpose of life. It has also found a positive relationship between the state of feeling religious and the meaning of life.

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