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A Person-Centered Analysis of Meaning in Life, Purpose Orientations, and Attitudes toward Life among Chinese Youth

open access: yesBehavioral Sciences, 2023
Background: Meaning in life, purpose orientations, and attitudes toward life have a significant impact on youths’ well-being. The purpose of this study is to investigate the developmental trends of youths’ meaning in life, purpose orientations, and ...
Hong Wang, Xiaosong Gai, Songliang Li
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Ikigai and subsequent health and wellbeing among Japanese older adults: Longitudinal outcome-wide analysis

open access: yesThe Lancet Regional Health. Western Pacific, 2022
Summary: Background: Having a purpose in life has been linked to improved health and wellbeing; however, it remains unknown whether having “Ikigai”—a related but broader concept in Japan—is also beneficial for various physical and psychosocial outcomes.
Sakurako S. Okuzono   +10 more
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Gifted Students' Purpose in Life [PDF]

open access: yesUniversal Journal of Educational Research, 2018
The aim of the present study is to determine gifted students’ purpose in life via interview in Turkey. Looking at the world population, it is seen that the proportion of gifted children is 2.5-3%. This rate does not change according to the countries of the world. Detection of gifted students is difficult and specific.
Mertol, Hüseyin, Çelik, Nur Demirbaş
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Sense of purpose in life and work-life tension: Perceptions of interference and enhancement

open access: yesAging and Health Research, 2023
This research examines the relation between purpose in life and perceptions of work-life interference (work interferes with personal life and vice versa) and enhancement (work enhances personal life and vice versa) and whether these dimensions mediate ...
Angelina R. Sutin   +3 more
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Purposes in Law and in Life: An Experimental Investigation of Purpose Attribution [PDF]

open access: yesCanadian Journal of Law & Jurisprudence, 2021
AbstractThere has been considerable debate in legal philosophy about how to attribute purposes to rules. Separately, within cognitive science, there has been a growing body of research concerned with questions about how people ordinarily attribute purposes.
Guilherme da Franca Couto Fernandes de Almeida   +3 more
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The relationship between religious orientation, personality, and purpose in life among an older Methodist sample [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
The construct of purpose in life is a key notion discussed both by psychologists and by theologians. There are good theoretical reasons for linking the two constructs and arguing that religiosity could enhance the sense of purpose in life.
Francis, Leslie J.   +2 more
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DIFFERENCES IN PURPOSES AND LIFE-GOALS FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF HEALTH BEHAVIOR IN A ROMANIAN ADOLESCENT SAMPLE

open access: yesKülönleges Bánásmód, 2019
The goal of this research was to investigate specific personality factors theorized to be involved in adolescents’ health behavior, such as individual differences in the level of purposes in life and the variations of life goals.
Sándor Csibi , Mónika Csibi
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Validation of the Purpose in Life Scale-Short Form in an Ecuadorian Sample: factor analysis, reliability and graded response model

open access: yesPsychology, Society & Education, 2023
Introduction: The purpose in life is analyzed within psychological well-being, it deals with the meaning of life that people have, which has implications in areas such as mental health.
Rodrigo Moreta-Herrera   +8 more
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ON A POSSIBLE BASIS FOR METAPHYSICAL SELF DEVELOPMENT IN NATURAL AND ARTIFICIAL SYSTEMS [PDF]

open access: yesFilozofia i Nauka, 2022
Recent research into the nature of self in artificial and biological systems raises interest in a uniquely determining immutable sense of self, a “metaphysical ‘I’” associated with inviolable personal values and moral convictions that remain constant in ...
Jeffrey White
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Is life satisfaction associated with the purpose in life of elderly hydrogymnastics practitioners?

open access: yesMotriz: Revista de Educacao Fisica, 2019
Aim: This cross-sectional study aimed to investigate the association between life satisfaction and purpose in the life of the elderly hydro gymnastic practitioners.
Daniel Vicentini de Oliveira   +6 more
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