Shahid Beheshti University Applied Psychology 2008-4331 14 3 1399 07 01 What is Meaning of Life and How is it Developed? A Qualitative Study with Iranian University Students What is Meaning of Life and How is it Developed? A Qualitative Study with Iranian University Students 199 173 100705 10.52547/apsy.2021.216376.0 FA Adeleh Samimi Shahid Beheshti University Shahriar Shahidi Shahid Beheshti University Leili Panaghi Shahid Beheshti University Fatemeh Bagherian Shahid Beheshti University Mohsen Degghani Department of Psychology, Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, Shahid Beheshti University Journal Article 1399 07 15 <strong>Aim:</strong> Question of meaning, is a kind of inquiry that has occupied people’s mind. Answering this question that fits in a place between philosophy and psychology, many experts have tried to clarify this ambiguous concept. The aim of this study is to explore two questions about meaning of life by a phenomenological lens. <strong>Method:</strong> 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 view of points about nature and development of meaning in life. The six phase strategy of Brown and Clark (2006) was used to extract themes. <strong>Results:</strong> After analyzing the results, two main themes, six themes and 12 subthemes were extracted. The main themes are: Nature of meaning and Development of meaning. The themes are: Need for Cohesion, Desire for Immortality, Meaning as a Scale, Livelihood Meaning, Epistemological Meaning, and Experiential Meaning. The subthemes are: Durability in the Another world, Durability via create Benefits, Living Everyday life, Living in Barrier of norms, Evasion of Thinking and Abstraction, Comfort and Benefit, Search for meaning, Creating meaning, Expansion of meaning, Imbalance, Seeking balance, and balance Discovery. <strong>Conclusion:</strong> Study results show a new perspective to build training protocols based on meaning of life in student population. <strong>Aim:</strong> Question of meaning, is a kind of inquiry that has occupied people’s mind. Answering this question that fits in a place between philosophy and psychology, many experts have tried to clarify this ambiguous concept. The aim of this study is to explore two questions about meaning of life by a phenomenological lens. <strong>Method:</strong> 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 view of points about nature and development of meaning in life. The six phase strategy of Brown and Clark (2006) was used to extract themes. <strong>Results:</strong> After analyzing the results, two main themes, six themes and 12 subthemes were extracted. The main themes are: Nature of meaning and Development of meaning. The themes are: Need for Cohesion, Desire for Immortality, Meaning as a Scale, Livelihood Meaning, Epistemological Meaning, and Experiential Meaning. The subthemes are: Durability in the Another world, Durability via create Benefits, Living Everyday life, Living in Barrier of norms, Evasion of Thinking and Abstraction, Comfort and Benefit, Search for meaning, Creating meaning, Expansion of meaning, Imbalance, Seeking balance, and balance Discovery. <strong>Conclusion:</strong> Study results show a new perspective to build training protocols based on meaning of life in student population. https://apsy.sbu.ac.ir/article_100705_5540991f0875b8ed9f4768bf23c41f13.pdf