Empirical evidence supported the existence of different meaning-making profiles among youths, however, it is unknown whether these profiles are related to specific transitional conditions. The present study applied a multi-group Latent Profile Analysis to examine the generalizability and criterion-validity of meaning-making profiles across two samples of emerging and young adults living different contextual situations (pre-COVID-19 vs during COVID-19), and to investigate their association with the balanced versus imbalanced conditions in the romantic and work role transitions. Three meaning-making profiles, searchers (high search, average presence of meaning), in-between (low search, average presence), and fulfilled (very low search, high presence) were supported by strong generalizability and criterion-validity evidence (i.e. fulfilled individuals showed higher well-being). As expected, older individuals were more likely to be fulfilled, while gender wasn’t a predictor of profiles. Imbalanced individuals in love and work were more likely to be searchers, while fulfilled individuals were predominantly living a balanced condition.

经验证据支持青少年之间存在不同的意义建构特征，然而，尚不清楚这些特征是否与特定的过渡条件有关。本研究应用多组潜在概况分析来检查意义构建概况的普遍性和标准有效性，这两个样本是生活在不同背景情况下的新兴成年人和年轻人（COVID-19 之前与 COVID-19 期间），以及调查他们与浪漫和工作角色转换中平衡与不平衡条件的关系。三个意义构建档案，搜索者（高搜索，平均存在意义），中间（低搜索，平均存在）和满足（非常低的搜索，高存在）得到了强大的普遍性和标准有效性证据的支持（即满足的个人表现出更高的幸福感）。正如预期的那样，老年人更有可能得到满足，而性别并不是个人资料的预测因素。爱情和工作中不平衡的人更有可能成为搜索者，而满足的人主要生活在平衡的状态。