The relationship between purpose in life and depression and anxiety: A meta‐analysis

ID Boreham, NS Schutte - Journal of clinical psychology, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose in life consists of having a sense of meaning and purpose regarding one's activities
as well as an overall sense that life is meaningful. This study reports a comprehensive …

Sense of purpose in life and concurrent loneliness and risk of incident loneliness: An individual-participant meta-analysis of 135,227 individuals from 36 cohorts

AR Sutin, M Luchetti, D Aschwanden, JH Lee… - Journal of Affective …, 2022 - Elsevier
Background Sense of purpose, the feeling that one's life is goal-oriented and driven, tends to
be protective for psychological health. Less is known about its relation with social health …

Sense of purpose interventions for depression and anxiety in youth: A scoping review and cross-cultural youth consultation

E Hielscher, J Blake, I Chang, T Crandon… - Journal of Affective …, 2023 - Elsevier
Background/objectives To investigate the effectiveness, feasibility, and acceptability of
sense of purpose (SOP) interventions in preventing or reducing anxiety or depression in …

[HTML][HTML] A Review of the Literature on Wellbeing and Modifiable Dementia Risk Factors

EC Willroth, GN Pfund, PD Rule, PL Hill, A John… - Ageing Research …, 2024 - Elsevier
Wellbeing—defined broadly as experiencing one's life as enjoyable and fulfilling—has been
associated with lower risk for Alzheimer's disease and related dementias. The mechanisms …

Sense of purpose in life is associated with lower risk of incident dementia: A meta-analysis

AR Sutin, D Aschwanden, M Luchetti… - Journal of …, 2021 - content.iospress.com
Background: A sense of purpose in life has been associated with healthier cognitive
outcomes across adulthood, including risk of dementia. The robustness and replicability of …

Purpose in life as an asset for well-being and a protective factor against depression in adolescents

B Barcaccia, A Couyoumdjian, M Di Consiglio… - Frontiers in …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Purpose in life, which is a central component of the eudaimonic paradigm of well-being, has
been sparsely examined in adolescence. This is unfortunate as adolescence is …

[HTML][HTML] What makes life purposeful? Identifying the antecedents of a sense of purpose in life using a lagged exposure-wide approach

JS Nakamura, Y Chen, TJ VanderWeele, ES Kim - SSM-Population Health, 2022 - Elsevier
Aims Prior research documents strong associations between an increased sense of purpose
in life and improved health and well-being outcomes. However, less is known about …

Purpose in life and cognitive performance and informant ratings of cognitive decline, affect, and activities

AR Sutin, M Luchetti, Y Stephan… - Journal of the …, 2024 - cambridge.org
Objective: To examine (1) the association between purpose in life and multiple domains of
cognitive function and informant-rated cognitive decline, affect, and activities;(2) whether …

Students' 2018 PISA reading self-concept: Identifying predictors and examining model generalizability for emergent bilinguals

O Ramazan, S Dai, RW Danielson, Y Ardasheva… - Journal of School …, 2023 - Elsevier
Decades of research have indicated that reading self-concept is an important predictor of
reading achievement. During this period, the population of emergent bilinguals has …

Purpose in life and markers of immunity and inflammation: Testing pathways of episodic memory

AR Sutin, Y Stephan, M Luchetti… - Journal of Psychosomatic …, 2023 - Elsevier
Objective This prospective cohort study examines whether purpose in life is associated with
markers of immunity and inflammation and tests these markers as mediators between …