EFFICACY OF A BRIEF MEANING Centred intervention among young people in the Free State, South Africa

Abstract

The participants included 47 high school learners and 22 university students from South Africa (age range 14 to 28 years, females made up 63.2%, majority (55%) were Sesothospeaking). Data was collected on their sense of meaning regarding the intervention by means of was collected on the participants’ subjective experiences of the intervention. A one-group, pretestposttest design was employed. The quantitative data was analysed with t-tests for paired samples. The qualitative data was analysed by means of themes. A sense-of-meaning intervention appears to result among adolescents and young adults. When comparing the two groups, the young adults showed before and after the intervention.