Purpose in life and use of preventive health care services

ES Kim, VJ Strecher, CD Ryff - Proceedings of the National …, 2014 - National Acad Sciences
Purpose in life has been linked with better health (mental and physical) and health
behaviors, but its link with patterns of health care use are understudied. We hypothesized …

Sense of purpose in life and five health behaviors in older adults

ES Kim, K Shiba, JK Boehm, LD Kubzansky - Preventive medicine, 2020 - Elsevier
Accumulating evidence shows that a higher sense of purpose in life is associated with lower
risk of chronic conditions and premature mortality. Health behaviors might partially explain …

Sense of purpose in life and subsequent physical, behavioral, and psychosocial health: An outcome-wide approach

ES Kim, Y Chen, JS Nakamura… - American Journal of …, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
Purpose: Growing evidence indicates that a higher sense of purpose in life (purpose) is
associated with reduced risk of chronic diseases and mortality. However, epidemiological …

Associations between purpose in life and mortality by SES

K Shiba, LD Kubzansky, DR Williams… - American Journal of …, 2021 - Elsevier
Introduction Having a higher purpose in life has been linked to favorable health outcomes.
However, little research has examined whether the purpose–health association persists …

A purposeful lifestyle is a healthful lifestyle: Linking sense of purpose to self-rated health through multiple health behaviors

PL Hill, GW Edmonds… - Journal of health …, 2019 - journals.sagepub.com
Having a purpose in life has been consistently linked to subjective and objective health
markers. Using data from the Hawaii Study of Personality and Health (n= 749, Mage= 60.1 …

Purpose in life is associated with mortality among community-dwelling older persons

PA Boyle, LL Barnes, AS Buchman… - Psychosomatic …, 2009 - journals.lww.com
Objective: To assess the association between purpose in life and all-cause mortality in
community-dwelling elderly persons. Methods: We used data from 1238 older persons …

Association between life purpose and mortality among US adults older than 50 years

A Alimujiang, A Wiensch, J Boss, NL Fleischer… - JAMA network …, 2019 - jamanetwork.com
Importance A growing body of literature suggests that having a strong sense of purpose in
life leads to improvements in both physical and mental health and enhances overall quality …

Purpose in life as a predictor of mortality across adulthood

PL Hill, NA Turiano - Psychological science, 2014 - journals.sagepub.com
Having a purpose in life has been cited consistently as an indicator of healthy aging for
several reasons, including its potential for reducing mortality risk. In the current study, we …

Association between purpose in life and glucose control among older adults

D Hafez, M Heisler, HJ Choi, CK Ankuda… - Annals of Behavioral …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
Background Greater purpose in life is associated with lower rates of certain chronic
diseases. Whether purpose in life can protect against development of prediabetes or type 2 …

Purpose in life and reduced incidence of stroke in older adults:'The Health and Retirement Study'

ES Kim, JK Sun, N Park, C Peterson - Journal of psychosomatic research, 2013 - Elsevier
OBJECTIVE: To determine whether purpose in life is associated with reduced stroke
incidence among older adults after adjusting for relevant sociodemographic, behavioral …