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

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6. Sleep quality, purpose in life, and health related quality of life among people living with HIV in Nigeria
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7. Sense of purpose in life and markers of hearing function: Replicated associations across two longitudinal cohorts
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8. Preliminary Efficacy of an Occupation-Oriented Purpose in Life Intervention After Breast Cancer
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12. Restoring and preserving capacity of self-affirmation for well-being in Indian adults with non-clinical depressive tendencies
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13. Finding Purpose in the Conservation of Biodiversity by the Commingling of Science and Ethics
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15. Ikigai as Student High Order Literacy Skills Intrinsic Motivation Learning Template
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16. Fifty states of purpose: Examining sense of purpose across the United States
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17. Development of Ikigai instructional method to cultivate computational thinking of millennial generations
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18. Purposeful Explorers: Adolescents Finding Their Purposes in a Catholic High School
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19. Positive Psychotherapy
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20. Construction of a Meaning Effectiveness Model: A new interpretation of meaning in life
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21. The Shape of a Life: Gender and Its Influence on Purpose Development
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23. Is Happiness a Moving Target? The Relationship Between Residential Mobility and Meaning in Life
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24. Purpose in life and depressive symptoms: An individual-participant meta-analysis of >500,000 participants across six world regions
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25. How sources of purpose predict meaning in life, happiness, and psychological richness, across cultures
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28. Science and religion around the world: compatibility between belief systems predicts increased well-being
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29. Mental health and meaning in life in Chinese military personnel: a cross-lagged analysis
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30. Sense of purpose and meaning in life during the transition to grandparenthood
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31. Agentive steadfastness as trait marker in relation to temperament and character
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32. The Why to Bear Any How: Goal Self-Concordance, Meaning, and Depressive and Anxious Symptomatology
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33. Purpose in Life as an Explicit Outcome of Occupational Therapy
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34. Purpose in life and slow walking speed: cross-sectional and longitudinal associations
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35. Reappraisal as a means to self-transcendence: Aquinas’s model of emotion regulation informs the extended process model
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36. Do Narcissists Possess a Sense of Purpose? Purpose-in-life and Narcissism
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37. What Do Correctional Leaders Think About Faith-Based Programs? Results From a National Survey
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38. A Psychometric Validation of the Claremont Purpose Scale with an Emerging Adult University Student Population
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39. Feasibility of a Group-Based Purpose Renewal Intervention for Cancer Survivors Via Zoom
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40. Compensatory couple effects: How a spouse’s life goals impact one’s own career and health outcomes
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41. Development and Validation of the Youth Purpose Orientation Scale Among Chinese Sample
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42. The IWH-BEAT Questionnaire Validation
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43. ‘You’re part of something bigger’: interpersonal relationships and older Canadian men’s body image
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44. Living life for others: Purpose in life among Thai nursing students
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45. Purposeful retirement expectations and their associations with retirement planning
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46. Initial Validation of the Teaching Sustainability Questionnaire and Relationships of Latent Factors Predicting Physical Education Teachers Intent to Remain Working in High Poverty Schools
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47. Self- and Other-Reported Virtues of Young Purpose Exemplars
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48. The Temporal Dynamics of Emotional Responding: Implications for Well-Being and Health From the MIDUS Neuroscience Project
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49. Using Subjective Well-being Homeostasis to Understand the Personal Impact of Neurodevelopmental Disorders
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50. Conceptualizing similarities and differences between purpose in life and self‐affirmation
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51. A method of testability analysis and design based on FMEA extension
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52. Positive Psychotherapy According to the Socratic Method
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53. LIFE PURPOSE AND IDENTITY: ARTICULATIONS AND IMPLICATIONS FOR EDUCATION
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54. Age and Generational Differences in Work Psychology: Facts, Fictions, and Meaningful Work
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55. Sentido de vida, dependência funcional e qualidade de vida em idosos
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56. Measuring meaning in life by combining philosophical and psychological distinctions: Psychometric properties of the Comprehensive Measure of Meaning
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57. Effects of a school-based leadership program on student leaders and their peers: The Learning to Lead cluster randomized controlled trial
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58. Learned Helplessness and Meaning in Life in Emerging Adults: The Serial Mediating Role of Free Will and Agency.
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59. Hurry up and wait: Developmental anxiety during the transition to adulthood
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60. Changes of well-being over the pandemic: a survey across generational cohorts
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61. The Products of the Process: Toward Exploring and Expanding the Benefits of Being Creative
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62. Purpose in life and posttraumatic stress symptoms among military veterans: A network analysis
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63. Driven by rewards or punishments? Understanding real world social functioning in anxiety and depressive disorders
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64. Trajectories and predictors of adolescent purpose development in self‐driven learning
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65. Predictors of Purpose Among Young Adults in College: An Exploratory Analysis of the Importance of Relational Supports and Experiential Learning
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67. Biopsychosocial Consideration of Ikigai in Older Adults in Japan through a Cross-Sectional Study
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68. Cyberbullying Victimization and a Sense of Purpose in Life Among College Students: A Mediation Model of Self-Esteem and Depressive Symptoms
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69. Adaptation and validation of the Claremont Purpose Scale to measure Chinese adolescents' purpose in life.
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73. Trust in purpose, or trust and purpose?: Institutional trust influences the association between sense of purpose and COVID-19 vaccination
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74. Long-term efficacy of brief psychological treatments for common mental disorders in Myanmar refugees in Malaysia: 12-month follow-up of a randomized, active-controlled trial of integrative adapt therapy v. cognitive behavioral therapy
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75. Gains in youth resilience during self-driven learning may be moderated by their pathways to purpose
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76. Psychological Well-Being in Childhood and Cardiometabolic Risk in Middle Adulthood: Findings From the 1958 British Birth Cohort
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77. Purpose Should Be in the Eye of the Holder, Not the Researcher
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78. Considering Financial Assets When Promoting Sense of Purpose in Older Adulthood
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89. Purpose, Meaning, and Work in Later Life
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94. Jeremy Bentham, Utility, and the Golden Triangle of Happiness
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95. Dreams Worth Pursuing: How College Students Develop and Articulate Their Purpose in Life.
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