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

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2. We Meet Again: The Reintroduction and Reintegration of Purpose into Personality Psychology
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3. Purpose in Life and Associated Cognitive and Affective Mechanisms
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7. Correlated Change in Sense of Purpose and Romantic Relationship Quality
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8. Affect dynamics and well-being: explanatory power of the model of intraindividual variability in affect (MIVA)
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9. Does Purpose Grow Here? Exploring 4-H as a Context for Cultivating Youth Purpose
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10. Meaning in life, connectedness, and life skills development in junior secondary school students: teachers’ perspectives in Hong Kong
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11. Keep Calm and Carry On? Grit Buffers Against Disordered Eating Unless Expressive Suppression is Used to Regulate Emotions
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12. Majoring in Selection, and Minoring in Socialization: The Role of the College Experience in Goal Change Post-High School.
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13. Floating on Air: Fulfillment and Self-in-Context for Distressed Japanese Women
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14. Dynamic, contextual approaches to studying personality in the social world.
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15. Perceived social support and depression: longitudinal mediating roles of gratitude and meaning in life
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16. The shifts in intergenerational relations in Cameroon and their potential impact on the health of older adults
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17. Beyond Reach but Within Sight: Ethical Leaders’ Pursuit of Seemingly Unattainable Role Models in East Asia
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18. Self-driven solutions and resilience adapted by people with drug-resistant tuberculosis and their caregivers in Bengaluru and Hyderabad, India: a qualitative study
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19. A Person-Centered Analysis of Meaning in Life, Purpose Orientations, and Attitudes toward Life among Chinese Youth
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20. Sense of purpose interventions for depression and anxiety in youth: A scoping review and cross-cultural youth consultation
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21. Purpose in life and academic performance: Grit mediation among Chinese college students
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22. Within-Person Temporal Associations Among Self-Reported Physical Activity, Sleep, and Well-Being in College Students
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23. Rest for Your Souls? Religion, Meaning, and Purpose in Life, and Sleep Quality in the United States
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24. A Moderated Mediation Model of Wellbeing and Competitive Anxiety in Male Marathon Runners
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25. Measuring Specific Purpose Orientations in Working Adults
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26. Self-reports of meaning in life matter.
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27. Max Weber e la secolarizzazione oggi
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28. Physical Activity and Meaning in Life: A Scoping Review
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29. Psychological Resilience as a Mediator in the Relationship Between Meaning in Life and Psychological Distress in Adolescents
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30. Purpose and goal pursuit as a self‐sustaining system: Evidence of daily within‐person reciprocity among adolescents in self‐driven learning
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31. Sense of Purpose in Life and Subjective Cognitive Failures
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32. Chinese life purpose orientation questionnaire: assessing purpose orientations among Chinese college students
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33. Meaning in Life Questionnaire: Factor Structure and Gender Invariance in a Romanian Undergraduates Sample
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34. An Integrative Framework of Appraisal and Adaptation in Serious Medical Illness
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35. Life engagement is associated with higher GDP among societies
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36. Academically gifted adolescents’ social purpose
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37. Autistic features in the general population: Implications for sensing purpose in life
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38. Life Goals, Self-Defining Life-Goal Memories, and Mental Time Travel Among Young Women and Men Going Through Emerging Versus Entering Adulthood: An Exploratory Study
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39. Shifting the focus from Learner Completion to Learner Perseverance: Evidences from a Teacher Professional Development MOOC
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40. The Role of Stress Management in the Relationship between Purpose in Life and Self-Rated Health in Teachers: A Mediation Analysis
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41. Work Across the Lifespan
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42. The Brain and Social Connectedness: GCBH Recommendations on Social Engagement and Brain Health
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43. Future focus: unlocking self-control and meaning in life to combat smartphone addiction
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44. Sense of Purpose in Life Predicts University Performance and Attrition
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45. Leadership as service: developing a character education program for university students in Spain
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46. Spiritual well-being, faith, meaning in life, peace, and purpose in life for cancer-related fatigue: systematic review with meta-analysis and meta-regressions
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47. Development and validation of an interview guide for examining the effects of sports careers on the quality of life of retired Portuguese football players
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48. Beyond Finding Purpose: Motivating a Translational Science of Purpose Acquisition
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49. Trends and geographical variation in population thriving, struggling and suffering across the USA, 2008–2017: a retrospective repeated cross-sectional study
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50. Predicting Positive Youth Development from Self-Regulation and Purpose in Early Adolescence.
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51. Understanding how youth develop a purpose: A qualitative study among Chinese emerging adults
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52. Motivating Self and Others
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53. New Year’s Resolution
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54. Learning from the wisdom of practice: teachers’ educational purposes as pathways to supporting adolescent purpose in secondary classrooms
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55. Parental bereavement and the loss of purpose in life as a function of interdependent self-construal
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56. Positive Psychotherapy: Clinical and Cross-cultural Applications of Positive Psychology
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57. Studying Aspects of Flourishing Among Adolescents
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58. Sense of purpose and social-emotional-behavioral skills during university
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59. Integrating Meaning, Purpose, and Spirituality (MPS) Within Lifestyle Medicine Education and Training: Core Competencies to Support Whole-Person Care
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60. Enhanced meaning in life following psychedelic use: converging evidence from controlled and naturalistic studies
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63. Toward an improved, holistic understanding of ‘meaningful destination’
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64. Purpose in Life and Cognitive Function: Evidence for Momentary Associations in Daily Life
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65. When the going gets tough: Stressors and purpose in life among social and commercial entrepreneurs
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66. Meaning and Purpose in Life in Aging: A Scoping Review
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67. Purpose in life and cognitive performance and informant ratings of cognitive decline, affect, and activities
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68. Association of meaning in life with preventive healthcare use among Chinese adults: are there age and gender differences?
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73. Examining Nietzsche’s Epigram: Having a Why Helps You Bear Almost Any How?
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74. Measurement Invariance of Claremont Purpose Scale Across Gender Among Indonesian Youth
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75. Employee Well-Being Evaluation and Proposal of Activities to Increase the Level of Health’s Area—The Czech Case
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77. Physical Activity and Positive Psychological Well-Being Attributes Among U.S. Latino Older Adults.
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78. Considering multiple methods for differentiating conceptually close constructs: E xamples from the field of positive psychology
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79. Hiding in plain sight: Older U.S. purpose exemplars
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80. The Influence of Purpose in Life on Alcohol Self-Regulation Failure Among Male Inpatients with Alcohol Use Disorder: the Mediation Effects of Self-Control and Abstinence Self-Efficacy
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81. Is it Time to Consider Meaning in Life as a Public Policy Priority?
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83. Adolescent self-efficacy and orientation about the future: Longitudinal associations with family/school support and sense of purpose.
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84. Participation in diverse social activities predicts fewer depressive symptoms
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86. Healthy Eating as Potential Mediator of Inverse Association between Purpose in Life and Waist Circumference: Emerging Evidence from US and Chilean Cohorts
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88. Finding Meaning in Education Bolsters Academic Self-Efficacy
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89. Linking Loneliness and Meaning in Life: Roles of Self-Compassion and Interpersonal Mindfulness
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90. Correlates of caregiver well-being: The National Study of Caregivers
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91. Measuring Purpose in Life in College Students: An Assessment of Invariance Properties by College Year and Undergraduate School
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92. Value creation for tenants in environmentally certified buildings
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93. Differences on adolescent life goal profile scale between a clinical and non-clinical adolescent sample
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98. In Search of Responsible Career Guidance: Career Capital and Personal Purpose in Restless Times
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99. A further comparison between meaning and purpose: Examining factor structures, partial correlational, unique, and indirect associations with mental health outcomes
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