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Shim et al. BMC Psychology (2024) 12:214 https://doi.org/10.1186/s40359-024-01672-2 BMC Psychology RESEARCH Open Access Maximization strategies in relationship and career enhances life satisfaction through meaning making among established adults in South Korea Yerin Shim¹ , Yun-Jeong Shin²*† and Ji-yeon Lee³*† Abstract Background: Choosing a partner and job have long been regarded as important developmental milestones to reach in adulthood. In a collective cultural context with high familial and societal expectations to commit to a relationship and job by age 30, maximizing on such life decisions might potentially harm one's well-being. The literature on max- imization-well-being association is complex, and recent research suggests that this relationship might differ by its dimensions and cultural context. In the present study, we examined how engaging in a maximization strategy in rela- tionship and career domains predicts life satisfaction and whether this pathway is mediated by a meaning-making process (search-to-presence of meaning) among established adults in South Korea. Methods: Survey data on measures of relational maximization strategy, career maximization strategy, search for meaning, presence of meaning, and life satisfaction was collected from 264 South Korean unmarried, working adults in their 30 s to 40 s. A two-step structural equation modeling method was applied to test the hypothesized serial mediation model. Results: Tests of the measurement and structural models showed good fit with the data (CFI = .96, TLI = .95, RMSEA = .07, SRMR = .05). Further bootstrapping results supported significant indirect effects of the serial media- tion model in the paths between maximization strategy and life satisfaction via a search-to-presence of meaning in both relational (β = .16, 95% CI [.01, .16], p< .05) and career (β = .26, 95% CI [.11, .26], p < .01) domains. Conclusions: Our findings suggest that for established adults in a collective culture who may experience familial and social pressure on these life choices, searching for alternative options to make the best relationship and career decisions could potentially lead to higher life satisfaction, when done through an intentional meaning-making process. Keywords: Relational maximization, Career maximization, Maximization strategy, Life satisfaction, Search for meaning, Presence of meaning, Established adults †Yun-Jeong Shin and Ji-yeon Lee are co-corresponding authors and have equally contributed to this work. *Correspondence: Yun-Jeong Shin yjshin@hufs.ac.kr Ji-yeon Lee jiyeon.lee@hu.ac.kr Full list of author information is available at the end of the article BMC © The Author(s) 2024. Article corrected in 2024. Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, pro