The meaning of life and its relationship to the cognitive motivation among university students

الملخص EN

The main objective of this study is to investigate the relationship between the meaning of life and cognitive motivation by use Methods to achieve the main objective.

The participants were 178 students from a public university in Baghdad, Iraq was recruited to respond to two sets of questionnaires namely Meaning in life using (MLQ) developed by Steger (2010) and Cognitive Motivation using (CM) developed by Radwan (2004).

The results indicated that the sample generally has a meaning of life.

In addition, the overall sample members have cognitive motivation.

Regarding the relationship between the meaning of life and cognitive motivation, there is a significant relationship.

Implications and limitations of the study are discussed, and suggestions for future research are offered.