Existential Attitudes and Eastern European Adolescents’ Problem and Health Behaviors: Highlighting the Role of the Search for Meaning in Life

Although the role of existential attitudes in adolescent health-related behavior has received increased attention recently, historically it has been underinvestigated in the field. The present study focuses on existential attitudes related to meaning in life and hopelessness. Relations of presence of meaning, search for meaning, and hopelessness with past and anticipated future involvement in problem- and health-enhancing behaviors were examined...