Mindfulness, meaning of life and sources of spirituality in generation Z

The subject of the research is to examine the relationship between mindfulness, the meaning of life, spiritual resources with some demographic variables. The aim of the research is to investigate which spiritual source is related to the individual's conscious awareness and the existence of meaning in life. The sample of the research is 500 students who are randomly selected from individuals studying at Akdeniz University. The Conscious Awareness Scale used to collect research data was developed by Brown and Ryan (2003) and adapted into Turkish by Özyeşil, Arslan, Kesici, and Deniz (2011), and the Meaning of Life Scale developed by Steger et al. (2006) in Turkish by Yarar (2015). The Spiritual Resources Scale was developed by Westbrook et al. (2018) and adapted into Turkish by Ekşi et al. (2019). Statistical analysis of the data was done with SPPS 26. According to the findings obtained from our research, it has been determined that there is a positive and significant relationship between Conscious Awareness, Meaning of Life and Spiritual Resources. There is a positive and significant relationship between Conscious Awareness and age, father's education level, parental attitude, the meaning of life and age, family income and Spiritual Resources and parental education level, family income, parental attitude, romantic relationship and internet usage time. Keywords: Generation Z, Conscious Awareness, Meaning of Life, Presence of Meaning, Search for Meaning, Spiritual Resources, Religion, Nature, Humanitarian, Transcendence