Purpose in Life as a System that Creates and Sustains Health and Well-Being: An Integrative, Testable Theory

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12. Purpose and coping with adversity: A repeated measures, mixed‐methods study with young adolescents
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13. Experience of meaning in life in bereaved informal caregivers of palliative care patients
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17. Self-Narrative Profiles of Elite Athletes and Comparisons on Psychological Well-Being
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18. Are All Purposes Worth Having? Integrating Content and Strength in Purpose Research
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19. When the end feels near: sense of purpose predicts well-being as a function of future time perspective
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20. Putting adversity in perspective: purpose in life moderates the link between childhood emotional abuse and neglect and adulthood depressive symptoms
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21. The Curious Neglect of High Functioning After Psychopathology: The Case of Depression
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22. Associations between sense of purpose and romantic relationship quality in adulthood
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33. Students’ Perceptions of ChatGPT in Higher Education: A Study of Academic Enhancement, Procrastination, and Ethical Concerns
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34. Purpose in life and accelerometer-measured physical activity among older adults
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36. Sense of Purpose in Life and Likelihood of Future Illicit Drug Use or Prescription Medication Misuse
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37. Existential and Virtuous Effects of Religiosity on Mental Health and Aggressiveness among Offenders
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38. Sense of Purpose and Parent–Child Relationships in Emerging Adulthood
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39. How do High School Youths’ Educational Experiences Relate to Well-Being? Towards a Trans-Disciplinary Conceptualization
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40. Purpose in life as an asset for well-being and a protective factor against depression in adolescents
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41. Italian Validation of the Meaning in Life Questionnaire: Factor Structure, Reliability, Convergent, and Discriminant Validity
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42. Purpose in Life and Well-Being: The Relationship Between Purpose in Life, Hope, Coping, and Inward Sensitivity Among First-Year University Students
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43. Sense of purpose in life is associated with lower risk of incident dementia: A meta-analysis
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44. What “Purpose” Means to Youth: Are There Cultures of Purpose?
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46. Purpose in life and stress: An individual-participant meta-analysis of 16 samples
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47. Predictive model of the dropout intention of Chilean university students
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48. Servant leadership to support wellbeing in higher education teaching
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49. Impact Culture: Transforming How Universities Tackle Twenty First Century Challenges
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50. Working toward a purpose: Examining the cross-sectional and longitudinal effects of work characteristics on sense of purpose.
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51. Psychological Distress and Posttraumatic Stress Symptoms: The Role of Maternal Satisfaction, Parenting Stress, and Social Support Among Mothers and Children Exposed to Intimate Partner Violence
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52. Youth purpose worldwide: A tapestry of possibilities
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53. Extending Research Linking Purpose in Life to Health: The Challenges of Inequality, the Potential of the Arts, and the Imperative of Virtue
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54. Casting wider nets for anxiety and depression: disability-driven cross-diagnostic subtypes in a large cohort
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56. Leveling Mountains
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57. Risk of Cognitive and Functional Impairment in Spouses of People With Dementia
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59. The role of personal purpose and personal goals in symbiotic visions
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60. Meaning in life, life role importance, life strain, and life satisfaction
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61. The prospective effect of purpose in life on gambling disorder and psychological flourishing among university students
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63. Quality of Life of Adults with an Intellectual Disability
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64. When God is your only friend: Religious beliefs compensate for purpose in life in the socially disconnected
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65. Purpose in Life: A Brief Review of the Literature and Its Implications for School Guidance Programs
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66. Purposefulness and daily life in a pandemic: Predicting daily affect and physical symptoms during the first weeks of the COVID-19 response
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67. Using a Technology-Based Meaning and Purpose Intervention to Improve Well-being: A Randomised Controlled Study
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71. The Psychology of Purpose: A Comprehensive Approach
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72. Lives of significance (and purpose and coherence): subclinical narcissism, meaning in life, and subjective well-being
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74. Purpose in Life Among Family Care Partners Managing Dementia: Links to Caregiving Gains.
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75. Does Spirituality Confer Meaning in Life Among Heart Failure Patients and Cancer Survivors?
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82. On the conflation of purpose and meaning in life: A qualitative study of high school and college student conceptions
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99. Association between health literacy and purpose in life and life satisfaction among health management specialists: a cross-sectional study
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