Changes In Worldview Research Articles

Comparing Students’ Multicultural Awareness Development in Online vs. Face-to-Face Diversity Courses Before, During, and After COVID-19

Creating a global workforce is a driving need for our time. Higher education institutions are prioritizing helping students develop an awareness of their own and other cultures, as they are expected to participate in a diverse workforce. This study examines a large data set of learning assessment data for undergraduate students from an agriculture course focused on diversity and social justice, using the Beliefs, Events and Values Inventory (BEVI) instrument to assess the multicultural awareness development of the students. The study compared the impact of the medium of instruction (face-to-face versus online) in helping students develop multicultural awareness. The results revealed that students did not differ much in multicultural awareness across the medium of instruction. Moreover, to understand the multicultural awareness of the students in the pre-COVID period, during COVID and in the post-COVID period, the pre-test BEVI scores of the students were compared using ANOVA. The goal of this analysis was to capture the change in worldview of the students from the pre-COVID period to during COVID and post-COVID periods. The results revealed that pre-test BEVI scores for the pre-COVID period showed a lower degree of multicultural awareness than students during the COVID and post-COVID times. Also, there was no significant difference in the pre-test BEVI scores for the students in the COVID and post-COVID periods. Overall, the study makes important contributions to higher education literature as it reveals that (1) medium has negligible impact on the multicultural awareness of the students, and that (2) student worldviews have shifted significantly since the height of the global pandemic.

Changes In Worldview Through the Study of The Transformation of Marriage Among the Ede People in Buon Ma Thuot City, Dak Lak Province, Vietnam

The Ede people are one of the long-established ethnic groups in the Central Highlands. The unique culture of this ethnic group is reflected in various architectural works, festivals, rituals, and customs. This article analyzes the human values in marriage and the changes in worldview regarding marriage among the Ede people in Buon Ma Thuot City, Dak Lak Province, Vietnam.

Psychedelic experiences and long-term spiritual growth: a systematic review

Psychedelic substances, which can occasion mystical experiences, are sometimes used for religious and spiritual reasons. Despite strong links between psychedelics and spirituality, no previous systematic review has investigated connections between psychedelics and indicators of long-term spiritual growth. Thus, 34 empirical studies were analyzed with 19,724 total participants from 32 independent samples. A variety of methodologies were used among the reviewed studies, and some studies included international samples. Results showed that psychedelics—especially classic psychedelics (e.g., psilocybin, LSD, and DMT)—have been studied more often in this context than other substances. Findings indicate that psychedelic use is linked with a variety of subjective indicators of spiritual growth, including stronger perceived connections with the divine, a greater sense of meaning, increased spiritual faith, increased engagement in religious and spiritual practices, an increase in feelings of unity and self-transcendence, positive changes in worldview, increased connectedness with others, and reduced fear of death. Many studies that reported on one of these indicators also reported on others, implying a co-occurrence of these facets during and after psychedelic experiences. Spiritual growth was often related to mystical experiences, with higher mystical experience ratings associating positively with perceived spiritual growth.

19세기 한글본 서울지도 ｢경조오부도｣와 ｢한성부지도｣의 지명 특성 및 유형 분석

This study analyzes the geographical names, rivers, and roads depicted in the 19th-century Korean maps of Seoul, 'GyeongjoObuDo(京兆五部圖)' and 'HanseongbuJido(漢城府地圖)' to understand the appearance of Seoul at that time, with a particular focus on the characteristics and types of geographical names. 'GyeongjoObuDo' was created in 1884 by George Foulk, an American diplomat, based on the 'GyeongjoObuDo' from ‘Daedongyeojido(大東輿地圖)’ . This map, used by a foreigner, contains a mixture of Korean and English names, with a total of 184 geographical names, and features color-coded representations for mountains, rivers, and roads. 'HanseongbuJido' , created in 1900 by the Yangji Office(量地衙門), includes numerous geographical names written in both Chinese characters and Korean, totaling 420 names. This map predominantly features facilities and uses unique Korean names, showcasing the originality and historical significance of the geographical names of that era. Both maps detail the major geographical names, transportation routes, and defense facilities of Seoul, reflecting the linguistic characteristics and regional features of the time. Through this study, it has been confirmed that these Korean maps are important historical sources that reflect the political, economic, and cultural context of 19th-century Seoul beyond mere geographical information. Therefore, there is a need for systematic research and analysis of these Korean maps to provide fundamental data for a deeper understanding of the social and cultural background of the time. Such research requires interpretation of the social, cultural, and worldview changes embedded in the content and representation of the maps.

Geneza rosyjskiej wielopartyjności u kresu ZSRR – aspekt instytucjonalno-decydencko-prawny

The article presents the genesis of the process of formation of multi-partyism in Russia in relation to the changes at the institutional-decisional-legal level that were carried out in the last years of the USSR under Mikhail Gorbachev's perestroika policy. Firstly, proceedings of an institutional-normative nature initiated by the then authorities are discussed, namely the reorganisation of the organs of state power: first and foremost, the holding of elections of deputies to the Congress of People's Deputies of the USSR. This was to be a genuinely competitively elected body, which it was decided to resurrect in line with an appeal to the origins of communism - an overturning of the model of power based on the functioning of councils with its superstructure the Congress, which constituted the main decision-making body in the state. Secondly, the transformations at the decision-making level, concerning the sphere of elite alternation in the process of transformational change, were analysed. Thirdly, the legal changes that effectively changed the basis of the Soviet system and initiated the emergence of a new order are shown. The totality of these proceedings initiated by the authorities at the time were, according to the logic assumed by those in power, actually intended to strengthen the position of the Communist Party and its apparatus as a force supporting perestroika. In reality, these actions laid the groundwork for future systemic, social and worldview changes and paved the way for multipartyism in an already different (new) political, legal and state environment (Russian Federation).

Hop-on Hop-off Spirituality

In contemporary spirituality-related thought and behaviour in Estonia (as well as in a number of other regions), a phenomenon can be observed that I call hop-on hop-off spirituality. This means testing and tasting of various forms of contemporary spirituality (via techniques, courses, lectures, books, etc.) out of curiosity or for fun or just because a friend said that this or that teaching has changed their life. Such experimenting can sometimes result in deeper spiritual involvement or change in worldview but often doesn’t bring along anything that could be defined as deeper spiritual or religious commitment or belonging. Based on interviews, questionnaire responses and written life-history narratives from Estonia from the 1990s to 2020s, I will analyse how the suggested term fits into the context of already existing definitions and terms related to “spirituality”, and how such “hop-on hop-off” participation can be still seen as a learning process that influences one’s values, meaning-making, coping models, and lifestyle.

DESIGN FOR SUSTAINABILITY USING A CRAFT-BASED HUMAN-CENTRIC APPROACH AND CONSUMER PARTICIPATION

It is often perceived that craft means no technology, primitive methods, and materials that have zero or significantly less impact on the actual needs of people. However, this research is trying to trace the craft's nature, importance, and potential in creating human-centric designs with sustainable methods. This research discusses the role of craft and design for a sustainable future. The intent is to build a bridge between design, craft, and sustainability. This paper hopes to bring together all three and benefit the participating stakeholders, researchers, designers, and artisans, allowing them to exchange and coordinate their points of view and expertise to find new solutions to associate craft with sustainable design, which are the crucial design challenges of today.This research contributes to (1) exploring practices and connotations of traditional craft about human-centric design thinking and sustainability; (2) validating the hypothetical framing of the coordination amid craft and sustainability through actual case studies, (3) stakeholder engagement can be enhanced through a craft-based approach towards sustainable development. This paper discusses Indian consumers' feedback towards craft-based products, accepts their suggestions, authenticates, and draws conclusions. Hypothetically we can say that A craft-based strategy might have a good impact on sustainable design.The research paper's outcome is a suggestive plan to incorporate craft as the basic structure and vital resource of human-centric design and contribute to sustainability. We claim that craft has critical potential to contribute towards evolution for sustainable design transformation for people and society, which may lead to significant changes in worldview, economic activities, and environmental concerns.

Research on the Path Construction and Practice of Bidirectional Cultural Mutual Guidance in Higher Vocational English Course Civics Teaching under the Background of Big Data

Abstract This study delves into the effective integration of bi-directional cultural intercultural instruction with Civic and Political teaching in a higher vocational English course and analyzes it with an association rule mining algorithm. By screening the weighted candidate itemsets through the weighted support degree model, the study identifies the itemsets’ positive and negative correlation attributes and mines the association rules between English teaching and students’ bidirectional cultural interduction ability by combining with the decision support model. The article also analyzes the content of Civics and Chinese and foreign cultural elements in the English curriculum. It compares and examines the changes in students’ two-way cultural core literacy and its introduction effect. The results of the study show that after the bi-directional cultural Civics teaching in the English curriculum, students experienced significant changes in worldview, values and Chinese and foreign cultural cognition, with t-values of −4.312, −5.034, and −4.275, respectively, and p-values of less than 0.001. In addition, the students’ bi-directional cultural communication competence improved significantly, with scores ranging from 3.8 to 4.3. The study provides valuable insights into the promotion of Chinese-foreign cultural communication and the reform of higher vocational English teaching.

БОРЩ ЯК ФОЛЬКЛОРНИЙ НАРАТИВ, АБО ЧОМУ БОРЩ - УКРАЇНСЬКИЙ

Background. Investigated here are historical data on the most earliest mentions of the recipe and technology of preparing borshch as a culinary dish and as a cultural narrative which retransmits information about mythological representations, ritual practices, festive customs and everyday standards of the ethno-subject. The object of the article is different folklore genres and some units of russian-language content, data from folklore expeditions, as well as information, learned by the authors of the article through direct transmission. Methods. The use of system-categorical and structural-semiotic approaches made it possible to analyze the syncretic folklore text "borshch" as a certain model of ethnic stereotypes and social standards. The comparative method was applied when comparing Ukrainian and russian folklore genres. Results. Research attention is focused on finding out the cognitive characteristics of the folklore narrative "borshch" through the identification of its functional and semantic parameters. Conclusions. Contextual data, among which gender stratification, time continuum, method of preparation and consumption, give a possibility to show the ritual semantics or the physiological pragmatics of the traditional Ukrainian dish. The information obtained from all ethnographic regions of Ukraine proves the nationwide nature of the cultural phenomenon "borshch" in its variety, formed historically. "Lexical" variability is expressed in the replacement of ingredients with their counterparts ("synonyms"), which does not affect the constancy of the general content of the narrative. Content variability, which indicates certain worldview changes, is associated with the narration of the texts of everyday life or different celebrations. As the folk ritual cycle has been partially desacralized, narrators do not always connect the tradition of cooking and eating borshch with the ancient custom of sacrifice. The publication is somewhat polemical in nature, as it is aimed at refuting the unjustified encroachments of the aggressor country on the autochthonous cultural text of the Ukrainians, as confirmed by UNESCO.

Memorial monuments of early and medieval nomads of the archaeological complex Kokentau

The article presents the results of field research and interpretation of materials from memorial complexes of ancient and medieval nomads of Kokentau archaeological microregion. The monument is located in the Zhana Semey district of the Abai region. The authors are conducting work in this archaeological microregion to identify, systematize, study, and introduce memorial sites into scientific circulation. The proposed article is one of the first attempts to introduce into scientific circulation memorial sites of the early Saka and ancient Turkic periods. The first evidence of the utilization of sacred space in the Kokentau mountain range begins in the Neolithic period. Ancient people began to erect burial-memorial structures to perpetuate the memory of their deceased compatriots, where various memorial rituals were conducted. The main component of the memorial tradition is the burial mound, but also included are fences, megalithic structures, and stone sculptures. The authors of the article, based on the materials of the Kokentau mountain range, demonstrate how changes in society's religious worldview influenced the architectural layout of memorial sites and rituals. The chronological framework of the "eight-stone" structures was determined based on comparative and radiocarbon analysis. Comparative analysis methods with similar objects from the Semirechye and Sayan-Altai regions were used to determine the time of construction of the ancient Turkic fence.

Эсхатологическая дилемма В.С. Соловьева: человеческая свобода или божественная необходимость?

The article deals with the eschatological ideas of V.S. Solovyov, which are the most important part of his historiosophy. The author notes that in the works of the philosopher, two largely disparate eschatologies stand out in relief. Despite the presence of many high-quality studies devoted to his work, the question of the ideological metamorphosis that caused this remains uncompletely clarified. "A special change in mental mood," in the words of V.S. Solovyov, which happened to him, has become a mystery both for the successors of his work and for modern researchers. In fact, they were faced with a dilemma: either, when comprehending history, to focus on human freedom and develop constructions of a socio-evolutionary type, or to focus on divine necessity, thereby falling under the influence of deterministic mindsets. The purpose of this article is to analyze the eschatological ideas of the Russian thinker and identify differences in the ideas characteristic of him in the early and late periods of his creative activity. To achieve it, the author resorts to comparative analysis, considering two landmark works by V.S. Solovyov: "Readings on God-Manhood", in which the evolutionary eschatology of the thinker was most adequately stated, and "Three Conversations...", which give a visual representation of the change in the thinker's worldview in the direction of transcendent Christian eschatology. As a result of the study, it is concluded that the dilemma posed by V.S. Solovyov requires not a choice between two different statements but their combination, which is what the thinker tried to do in his life of philosophizing. The most accurate way to the "spiritual testament" of V.S. Solovyov was followed by Russian metaphysicians, who further developed the history of philosophy and eschatology of the transcendental type, accepting the concept of Providence without detracting from the significance of the activity of free individuals capable of creativity.

DESCRIPTION OF PROBLEMS OF EXISTENTIALISM AND PRESERVATION OF NATIONAL IDENTITY IN THE CONTEXT OF ARMENIAN-AMERICAN LITERATURE OF THE 20TH CENTURY

This article discusses the principles associated with the problems and issues of existential-philosophical and national preservation of the identity of the writers who formed the Armenian-American literature of the twentieth century. It also examines the cause-and-effect relationships and circumstances on the basis of which the Armenian-American literature was formed with its rich and meaningful literature. Amastegh, Vahe Hayk, Benjamin Nurikyan, Hakob Asaturyan, Aram Haykaz, Andranik Andreasyan, William Saroyan, Peter Suryan, Peter Najaryan, Jack Hashyan, Hakob Khachikyan, Levon-Zaven Surmelyan, David Khrdyan and others join the ranks of Armenian-American literature. Their life path was not easy. the remnants torn from their native places were subjected to a change in life, customs, friendly impulses, intellectual interests and worldview on foreign shores, which created a craving for a new society and a sharp polarization of reality among traditional and nationalist Armenians. Their efforts to preserve their national identity are invaluable. They put national self-consciousness, thinking, traditions and customs, language, historical memory, culture and mindset as the basis of national self-consciousness, image and personality. With their works they raised questions of their existential and philosophical existence throughout the world.

From Imitation of Reality to Fantastic Game: Evolution of the Image of War in the Visual Arts

The article is devoted to analyze the starting point of the evolution of military subjects in the visual arts of antiquity and the images that it came to in modern cinema. From the author's point of view, in the development of the image of war from the statement of war scenes in real life to fantastic games with machine warriors in the space of hyperreality, a crucial role was played not only by the impact of the historical era and the change of worldview, but also by the specifics of cinema as an art form, which perceived the theme of war as one of the archetypal artistic subjects.The article proposes to change the morphological status of cinema as the eighth art form and consider it as a threefold art in its Genesis, with the leading principles being man and machine, and nature (for the first time!) in the process of creating an artistic image, it appears as an auxiliary element. Due to its ontological specificity, cinema has special imaginative and artistic tools that create new images of war that are impossible in other visual arts.

Transformative learning in formal schools

Transformative learning is a learning theory that emphasizes the transformative potential of education. It was developed by Jack Mezirow in the 1970s and focuses on the ways in which learners can transform their perspectives, beliefs, and assumptions through the process of learning. According to this theory, transformative learning involves critical reflection and self-examination, leading to a change in the learner's worldview.

English Perception of fake news by Ukrainian respondents

Introduction. Today, the world's attention is riveted to Ukraine because of the war with the Russian Federation and counteracting the spread of fake news is more relevant than ever. That is why it is essential to highlight practices and interpretations of fake news from three perspectives: the perception and attitudes toward it, perceptions of interacting with it and opinions about countering it. Aim. The article aimed to shed light on three perspectives related to fake news: the perception and attitudes toward it, perceived interaction with it and opinion on counteraction it from various stakeholder groups. Methods: expert interviews, content analysis, qualitative analysis and supporting strategies: abstraction, deduction, contextualisation, interpretive content analysis and its "contextual" analysis. Results. Our research indicates that Ukrainian media users single out the following threats posed by fake news: panic, disappointment, and change in worldview. In addition, Ukrainian media users search for opinion leaders who can offer information credibility assessments. They are sure that supporting activities concerning credibility information could be checking scientific databases, searching for contradicting information, and collaborating between media users, media organisations, scientists, communication managers, journalists and other important actors in the media ecosystem. Conclusions. Our findings concerning Ukraine's media ecosystem may contribute to understanding the interaction of fake news in other European countries with similar media-cultural conditions and developing sensible policies, as ICT governance's success depends on all actors' willingness and participation in the media ecosystem.

Worldviews and environmental ethics: Contributions of brain processing networks.

Research suggests that worldviews define our relationship to the environment, including our responsibility to the environment and our planet. This paper examines two specific worldviews and their potential environmental impact: the materialist worldview, considered to be the dominant worldview of Western society, and the so-called post-materialist worldview. We believe that changing the worldview of both individuals and society is key to changing environmental ethics, specifically attitudes, beliefs, and actions towards the environment. Recent neuroscience research suggests that brain filters and networks contribute to concealing an expanded nonlocal awareness. This creates self-referential thinking and contributes to the limited conceptual framework characteristic of a materialist worldview. We discuss the underlying concepts of both materialist and post-materialist worldviews including their impact on environmental ethics, then explore the various types of neural filters and processing networks that contribute to a materialist worldview, and finally explore methods for modifying neural filters and changing worldviews.

CONTRADICTIONS OF A KNOWLEDGE SOCIETY: EDUCATIONAL TRANSFORMATIONS AND CHALLENGES

Modern trends in social development are defined not only as an information society, but increasingly as a knowledge society. To understand its content and strategy of implementation, an important aspect is to understand the contradictions that are increasingly manifested and are of a general socioanthropological nature. In particular, this is the problem of the correlation between a knowledge society and objective scientific knowledge; this is the question of the correlation between the available knowledge and experience reflected in the cultural tradition and the rapidly changing information flow; this is the question of the social role of education and the social status of an educated person, as well as the problem of human self-determination in the context of situational relations and a configurative society, etc.The widespread mythologeme of a knowledge society as a society of intellectuals supports a rather one-sided view of it. Therefore, understanding the paradoxical combination of elements of a knowledge society system, their contradictions, and complementarities, makes it possible to understand the risks and develop tools to avoid them. The research methodology. The study is based on an interdisciplinary and comprehensive analysis of contemporary socio-cultural processes in the context of the formation of a knowledge society and information pedagogy. Research results: The interpretation of modern society as a knowledge society raises a number of theoretical questions and discussions concerning the definition of knowledge (scientific/non-scientific, useful/unsuitable, etc.), and the definition of its social and anthropological characteristics and human status (educated person, informed person, professional person, successful person). The challenges of the processes of informatization of society lead to the formation of «e-didactics» and «information pedagogy» of a new educational paradigm, the effectiveness of which should resolve a number of contradictions. These include, in particular, the discrepancy between learning tools (openness and mobility) and reproductive learning models; between distance asynchronous learning and the classical stability of the structure and forms of organization of the educational process, etc. Discussions. The analysis of knowledge as the fundamental basis of the new social reality and changes in its historical status allows us to identify problematic issues of the worldview picture of the world that is formed in the conditions of intensive production of information and a certain devaluation of knowledge, actualization of innovations, and devaluation of cultural tradition. The knowledge society is often characterized as an education society. Although such a generalization is debatable, educational technologies of knowledge production and transmission are an important component of the development of a knowledge society and include the destruction of stereotypes and attitudes of the industrial society’s education paradigm. This explains why interdisciplinary discussions about the content and forms of organization of modern education are becoming increasingly acute. The problem of rethinking the established models of teacherstudent relations and the requirements for the subjects of the educational process is important among the many aspects of changes. A student is transformed from an object of pedagogical influence into a subject of the educational process, where a teacher plays the role of a mentor, a tutor, since knowledge must be «extracted» by a student because of his or her own intellectual efforts and cognitive search.The change in social role also includes a change in worldview, way of thinking, and value priorities. Conclusion. The analysis of the socio-cultural mechanisms and practices of the knowledge society reveals its ambivalence and risks, which are its inherent characteristics. Knowledge as the fundamental basis of the new social reality is defined not only as a tool for understanding the world but also as a factor of civilizational development that produces new forms of activity and relationships, new worldview orientations, and value priorities. The transformation of the phenomenon of knowledge and the rapidity of the information flow raises the question of the relevance of existing knowledge and experience to the needs of a given situation, thus actualizing the demand not for the depth of knowledge and understanding, but for the ability to combine and choose a practical (useful) option, to put together puzzles and mosaics, forming a clip thinking. Challenges of the processes of society informatization lead to the formation of “e-didactics”, information pedagogy as a tool for adaptation and a new educational paradigm, the effectiveness of which should resolve the identified contradictions.However, the transformation of modern educational practices involves not only rethinking their content, technologies, and teaching methods, changing the status relations of the subjects of the educational process, but also a general change in models of thinking and personal behavior, and a change in the human world. The correlation of the modes of human definition: educated, intellectual, erudite, and specialist becomes an important issue of the anthropological dimension of the knowledge society, where the problem of human self-determination is becoming more acute.

Sociocultural Foundations of the Criminal Law Paradigm

The paper raises the question of the possibility of applying a paradigmatic approach to social knowledge in a way similar to natural science. And if such an approach is applicable, then the problem lies in allocation of paradigms, in particular, in relation to criminal law. Scientific knowledge, of which criminal law knowledge is a part, should be considered in unity with the ideological foundations of society. As far as the worldview changes, so do the socio-cultural foundations of scientific knowledge. The ideological basis determines the necessary connection between natural science and social cognition. The position is substantiated, according to which the paradigm in the social sciences should not depend on discoveries, as in natural science, but on changes occurring in the very structure of human thinking. The division of paradigms into classical and non-classical is taken as a basis, which corresponds to scientific attitudes, namely, realism and constructivism. This methodology allowed us to associate ontological types of legal understanding with realism, which are based on metaphysical entities (God, reason, cosmos, nature), and with constructivism — a modern postmodern type of legal understanding that does not appeal to ontology. Considering the key concept of a crime through the prism of the designated paradigms (classical and non-classical), the author shows how, along with the evolution of attitudes towards a person, the view of the goals and objectives of criminal law changes, how the classical paradigm (the paradigm of responsibility) changes to the non-classical paradigm (the paradigm of security). Both of these paradigms determine the vector of development of criminal law and criminal policy formed as the result of development of the concept of man and society.

Особливості соціалізуючої ролі природничого музею в умовах трансформації українського суспільства

An overview of the potential role of natural history museums in the socialisation of citizens under conditions of revolutionary worldview changes is presented, the meaning of which in Ukraine is the reinvention and final formation of the political nation and civil society. The unique set of means of information presentation and unobtrusive influence on visitors that a museum can offer for socialisation were analysed in the context of N. Lugman’s vision of society as a complex of cycles of self-reference and autopoiesis, which is realised through interpersonal and public communications. The power of the inertia of interpersonal communication is conclusive, both in the promotion of new ideas and in resistance to their influence. Therefore, reforms of society are impossible without systemic changes at this level, for which language serves as the main mediator. Language is identified as the basis for other ‘communication facilitators’: the means of storing and transmitting information and the ‘generalised exchange mediators’ that are increasingly the product of public communication. Analysing the modern changes that a museum must take into account, both in relations with the audience and in the content of messages, they are considered as a consequence of the finalisation or ‘change of sign’ in various-scale fluctuations of social and cultural dynamics, which embody fluctuations in the confrontation of certain oppositional principles. The most short-term of them in Ukraine turned out to be changes in European integration sentiments and the corresponding actions of the authorities. A fragment of the longest confrontation can be considered the transition of Humanity from the realities of state-caste societies, which are about six thousand years old, to the ideals of civil society, which is just beginning to form. For changes in the field of philosophy, the transition from the narratives of postmodernism to the foundations of metamodernism, which, in particular, includes the ‘new ontology’ of M. Hartman, has become significant. An overview of ideas and narratives that the National Museum of Natural History can share with the audience are offered. At the same time, the content of ideas and narratives is adjusted by the provisions of ontology in the interpretation of N. Hartman, and considerations regarding the possible forms of presenting information are oriented, first of all, to the understanding of the age-related features of its perception by J. Piaget.

From shattered assumptions to fantasy realization: the role of meaning search in pleasure travel during the COVID era

ABSTRACT This research draws on shattered assumptions theory and fantasy realization theory to underscore how abrupt changes in worldview could turn into a quest for new kinds of voyages. It proposes a model leading from meaning search to travel intention through the mediation of travel motivation and involvement. The moderations of COVID worry and loneliness are also examined. It further articulates that COVID worry and loneliness can further activate tourists’ mental contrasting strategies to negotiate their quest for life/world meaning. This mechanism offers new insights into how tourists’ goal pursuit through travelling can be strengthened or weakened.