摘要：Meaning of life is a precious and important values used as life guidance. It can be found by doing various activities that contain three source of values, which are: creativity, appreciation, and behaviour. The purpose of this study were: (1) to know the meaning of life from junior high school students of Tenggerese; (2) determine the creative value that is reflected in junior high school students of Tenggerese; (3) determine the value of appreciation that is reflected in junior high school students of Tenggerese; (4) to know the value that being reflected inside junior high school students of Tenggerese. This research is quantitative research using survey method. This research steps is: formulating the research problem and determine the purpose of the survey, define concepts and hypotheses and explore literature, taking samples, making the questionnaire or inventory, do field work and data processing. The results showed that junior high school students of Tenggerese had high meaning of life. It is mean that junior high school students of Tenggerese used life guidance to achieve the purpose of life.
关键词：meaning of life; sources of value; tenggerese; junior high school students; sumber nilai; etnis tengger; siswa sekolah menengah pertama
