Relation between Sense of Crisis on Life Satisfaction in Middle-aged Women: Mediating effects of search for meaning, generativity and presence of meaning

This study is aimed to examine the structural relation between sense of crisis on life satisfaction in middle-aged women with search for meaning, generativity and presence of meaning as mediators and verify their mediating effects. For the foregoing, this study conducted a survey targeting 396 middle-aged women and analyzed data using SPSS 26.0 and AMOS 21.0. For the results, in the relation between middle-aged women's sense of crisis and life satisfaction, sense of crisis had a partial mediating effect on life satisfaction through presence of meaning. A serial double partial mediating effect of search for meaning and presence of meaning was confirmed. The serial triple mediation effect of search for meaning, generativity and presence of meaning was also be significant. These results suggest that in order to increase the life satisfaction of middle-aged women, it is necessary to intervene in the search for meaning, generativity and presence of meaning identified as parameters, along with efforts to lower the sense of crisis itself.