Meaning making following trauma

CL Park - Frontiers in Psychology, 2022 - frontiersin.org
The meaning making model provides a useful framework for integrating myriad existing
meaning-related theories and empirical findings. In this overview, I describe this model …

Purpose in life: A resolution on the definition, conceptual model, and optimal measurement.

TB Kashdan, FR Goodman, PE McKnight… - American …, 2023 - psycnet.apa.org
Theoretically, purpose serves as a basic dimension of healthy psychological functioning and
an important protective factor from psychopathology. Theory alone, however, is insufficient to …

The PATHS to purpose: A new framework toward understanding purpose development

PL Hill, GN Pfund, M Allemand - Current Directions in …, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
Academic and lay interest has accrued over recent years with respect to how people
develop a purpose in life. However, few theoretical models exist for understanding this …

Sense of purpose as a potential buffer between mental health and subjective cognitive decline

GN Pfund, I Spears, SA Norton, R Bogdan… - International …, 2022 - cambridge.org
Objectives: Purposeful adults may experience greater cognitive resilience because sense of
purpose may help buffer against the effects of depressive symptoms and loneliness. We also …

Purposeful and purposeless aging: Structural issues for sense of purpose and their implications for predicting life outcomes.

GN Pfund, G Olaru, M Allemand… - Developmental …, 2023 - psycnet.apa.org
Despite the value of sense of purpose during older adulthood, this construct often declines
with age. With some older adults reconsidering the relevance of purpose later in life, the …

Future-oriented function of meaning in life: Promoting hope via future temporal focus

M Miao, L Zheng, Y Gan - Personality and Individual Differences, 2021 - Elsevier
Two studies were conducted to examine the promotional role of meaning in life (MIL) on
hope and the underlying mediating mechanism via future temporal focus (FTF). Study 1 was …

Sense of purpose promotes resilience to cognitive deficits attributable to depressive symptoms

NA Lewis, PL Hill - Frontiers in Psychology, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Objective Individuals higher in depressive symptoms commonly present with
neuropsychological deficits including poorer memory performance. Sense of purpose in life …

Sense of purpose and strategies for coping with anxiety across adulthood.

GN Pfund, V Strecher, E Kross… - GeroPsych: The Journal of …, 2023 - psycnet.apa.org
Sense of purpose—the feeling that one has meaningful goals and directions in life—has
consistently been connected to desirable well-being outcomes. Though these associations …

Applying an Allportian trait perspective to sense of purpose

GN Pfund - Journal of Happiness Studies, 2023 - Springer
Sense of purpose captures the extent to which one feels that they have personally
meaningful goals and directions guiding them through life. While this construct has …

Self-driven solutions and resilience adapted by people with drug-resistant tuberculosis and their caregivers in Bengaluru and Hyderabad, India: a qualitative study

K Nagarajan, K Kumarswamy, R Begum… - The Lancet Regional …, 2024 - thelancet.com
Background One-fifth of people with drug-resistance tuberculosis (DR-TB) who were
initiated on newer shorter treatment regimen (with injection) had unfavourable treatment …