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Psychoticism and purpose in life

Personality and Individual Differences, 1989
Abstract The Purpose in Life test and the Eysenck Personality Questionnaire were administered to 83 young female nurses. Purpose in life was found to be significantly negatively related to psychoticism and neuroticism, and positively to extraversion.
Paul R. Pearson, Brian F. Sheffield
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Finding Purpose in Life

Science, 1998
Nature's Purposes Analyses of Function and Design in Biology. Colin Allen, Marc Bekoff, and George Lauder, Eds. MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 1998. 603 pp. $55. ISBN 0-262-01168-9. Paper, $30. ISBN 0-262-51097-9 A collection of papers on the nature and functions of teleology in biology.
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Purpose in Life

1986
When asked the question “What is the most important principle you live your life by?”, the 94 respondents in the sample provided answers that revealed as much about their identities as it did about their value systems. Statements such as “my values are my life… the rules of the body, the rules of the mind” and “the key to everything else” revealed the ...
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Purpose in life and cognitive functioning in adulthood

Aging, Neuropsychology, and Cognition, 2016
With an increasingly aging population, more work is needed to identify factors which may promote the maintenance of normal cognitive functioning. The current study tested the concurrent association between sense of purpose in life and the cognitive variables of episodic memory, executive functioning, and composite cognitive functioning in adults (N ...
Nathan A, Lewis, Nicholas A, Turiano, Brennan R, Payne, Patrick L, Hill   +3 more
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“My Life Purpose Is…”: Assessment of Youth Purpose in Context

Research in Human Development, 2018
In the introduction to this special issue on youth purpose, the authors discuss the challenges in assessing purpose in adolescents; purpose is a concept that has more often been studied in adults b...
Miriam R. Linver, Jennifer Brown Urban
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Purpose in Life and Stress Reactivity

Individuals with a stronger sense of purpose in life experience better health across the lifespan. This chapter describes one mechanism linking purpose to health, namely stress reactivity. Across survey, experimental, and daily diary studies, research demonstrates that sense of purpose may yield a homeostatic function, insofar that it helps individuals
Patrick L, Hill, Jennifer F, Beatty, Megan W, Wolk   +2 more
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Purpose in daily life: Considering within-person sense of purpose variability

Journal of Research in Personality
Sense of purpose refers to the extent to which one feels that they have personally meaningful goals and directions guiding them through life. Though this construct predicts a host of benefits, little is known regarding the extent to which sense of purpose fluctuates within an individual and the affective changes tied to those fluctuations.
Gabrielle N, Pfund, Anthony L, Burrow, Patrick L, Hill   +2 more
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Purpose in Life and Death Concern

The Journal of Genetic Psychology, 1978
(1978). Purpose in Life and Death Concern. The Journal of Genetic Psychology: Vol. 132, No. 1, pp. 159-160.
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Fostering Purpose in Life / Meaning in Life Across the Life Span

2017
This thesis addresses the idea of purpose and meaning in life and how it can be intentionally fostered across the lifespan. Purpose and meaning in life, as it relates to well-being, is considered by some scholars to be the highest-level construct from which all other lower-level constructs of well-being flow (Kashdan & McKnight, 2009).
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Purpose in life:

Mary A. Cox, Patrick L. Hill
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