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The Purpose in Life (PIL) test, the MOS Perceived Social Support Questionnaire, and official records on offense type and sentence duration were employed.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Results and discussion<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>\n                      Results indicated that, on average, participants reported moderate levels of meaning in life, with a tendency toward positive scores. Spearman\u2019s correlation revealed a moderate, positive, and statistically significant relationship between perceived social support and meaning in life (r\n                      <jats:sub>s<\/jats:sub>\n                      = 0.40,\n                      <jats:italic>p<\/jats:italic>\n                      = 0.030), a finding confirmed through permutation testing (\n                      <jats:italic>p<\/jats:italic>\n                      = 0.033). The Firth logistic regression showed a positive but non-significant trend for social support (\n                      <jats:italic>\u03b2<\/jats:italic>\n                      = 0.64, OR = 1.90, 95% CI [0.89, 4.63]) and a small effect for sentence length (\n                      <jats:italic>\u03b2<\/jats:italic>\n                      = 0.023, OR = 1.02, 95% CI [0.95, 1.12]), with an area under the ROC curve of 0.67, indicating modest predictive capacity.\n                      <jats:italic>Post-hoc<\/jats:italic>\n                      analysis revealed that the study was powered to detect effects of r \u2265 0.49 with 80% confidence. Findings suggest that higher perceived social support is associted with greater meaning in life, highlighting its importance as a potential protective factor for the psychological well-being and rehabilitation of incarcerated women.\n                    <\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.3389\/fpsyg.2026.1750267","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2026,2,25]],"date-time":"2026-02-25T05:33:06Z","timestamp":1771997586000},"update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3389\/crossmark-policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":0,"title":["The influence of social support and sentence length on meaning in life among incarcerated women in Ecuador"],"prefix":"10.3389","volume":"17","author":[{"given":"Livia I.","family":"Andrade","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Psychology, Universidad Tecnica Particular de Loja","place":["Loja, Ecuador"]}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Marlon Santiago","family":"Vi\u00f1\u00e1n-Lude\u00f1a","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Escuela de Ingenier\u00eda, Catholic University of the North","place":["Coquimbo, Chile"]},{"name":"Departamento de Ciencias de la Computaci\u00f3n e Inteligencia Artificial, ETSI Inform\u00e1tica y de Telecomunicaci\u00f3n, CITIC-UGR, University of Granada","place":["Granada, Spain"]}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Jorge","family":"Benitez","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Psychology, Universidad Tecnica Particular de Loja","place":["Loja, Ecuador"]}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Gabriela","family":"Armijos","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Psychology, Universidad Tecnica Particular de Loja","place":["Loja, Ecuador"]}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Ruth","family":"Maldonado","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Psychology, Universidad Tecnica Particular de Loja","place":["Loja, Ecuador"]}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"1965","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2026,2,25]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","first-page":"240","DOI":"10.17141\/urvio.21.2017.2937","article-title":"Mujeres con pena privativa de Libertad: \u00bfqui\u00e9nes son y c\u00f3mo viven en una c\u00e1rcel de Ecuador?\/ women\u2019s imprisonment: who they are and how they live in a prison in Ecuador?","volume":"1","author":"Almeida","year":"2017","journal-title":"URVIO. 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