Life serves no purpose

nihilism

Source

General Social Survey https://gss.norc.org

Details

Question Do you agree or disagree with the following. . . D. In my opinion, life does not serve any purpose.

Values

• 1 strongly agree

• 2 agree

• 3 neither agree nor disagree

• 4 disagree

• 5 strongly disagree

• NA(d) can't choose / NA(i) iap / NA(j) I don't have a job / NA(m) dk, na, iap / NA(n) no answer / NA(p) not imputable / NA(r) refused / NA(s) skipped on web / NA(u) uncodeable / NA(x) not available in this release / NA(y) not available in this year / NA(z) see codebook

Question Years and Ballots

year	ballots	availability
1991	A/B/C	full
1998	A/B/C	full
2008	B/C/-	partial
2018	A/B/-	partial

Link at the GSS

For further details see the GSS Data Explorer page for nihilism.

See also

Other ISSP Religion: bible1, devil, fatalism, godmeans, heaven, hell, miracles, predeter, theism