purpose in life

- Number of publications: 48

Bell, G., Singham, T., Saunders, R., Buckman, J. E. J., Charlesworth, G., Richards, M., John, A., & Stott, J. (2022). Positive psychological constructs and cognitive function: A systematic review and meta-analysis. Ageing Research Reviews, 82, Article 101745.
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Berkowitz, L., Mateo, C., Salazar, C., Samith, B., Sara, D., Pinto, V., Martinez, X., Calzada, M., von Schultzendorff, A., Pedrals, N., Bitran, M., Echeverria, G., Ruini, C., Ryff, C., & Rigotti, A. (2023). Healthy eating as potential mediator of inverse association between purpose in life and waist circumference: Emerging evidence from US and Chilean cohorts. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 20(23), Article 7099.
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Bierman, A., Fazio, E., Milkie, M. (2006). A multifaceted approach to the mental health advantage of the married: Assessing how explanations vary by outcome measure and unmarried group Journal of Family Issues, 27(4), 554-582.
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Boreham, I. D., & Schutte, N. S. (2023). The relationship between purpose in life and depression and anxiety: A meta-analysis. Journal of Clinical Psychology, 79(12), 2736-2767.
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Boylan, J. M., Biggane, C., Shaffer, J. A., Wilson, C. L., Vagnini, K. M., & Masters, K. S. (2023). Do purpose in life and social support mediate the association between religiousness/spirituality and mortality? Evidence from the MIDUS national sample. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 20(12), Article 6112.
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Boylan, J. M., Cundiff, J. M., Fuller-Rowell, T. E., & Ryff, C. D. (2020). Childhood socioeconomic status and inflammation: Psychological moderators among Black and White Americans. Health Psychology, 39(6), 497-508.
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Chan, T., Michalak, N. M., & Ybarra, O. (2019). When God is your only friend: Religious beliefs compensate for purpose in life in the socially disconnected. Journal of Personality, 87(3), 455-471.
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Cohen, R., Bavishi, C., & Rozanski, A. (2016). Purpose in life and its relationship to all-cause mortality and cardiovascular events: A meta-analysis. Psychosomatic Medicine, 78(2), 122-133.
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Dewitte, L., Lewis, N. A., Payne, B. R., Turiano, N. A., & Hill, P. L. (2021). Cross-lagged relationships between sense of purpose in life, memory performance, and subjective memory beliefs in adulthood over a 9-year interval. Aging and Mental Health, 25(11), 2018-2027.
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Friedman, E. M., & Ryff, C. D. (2012). Living well with medical comorbidities: A biopsychosocial perspective. The Journals of Gerontology Series B: Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences, 67(5), 535-544.
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Friedman, E. M., & Teas, E. (2023). Self-rated health and mortality: Moderation by purpose in life. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 20(12), Article 6171.
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Greenfield, E. A., & Marks, N. (2004). Formal volunteering as a protective factor for older adults' psychological well-being. Journals of Gerontology: Series B: Psychological Sciences & Social Sciences, 59B(5), S258-S264.
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Hartanto, A., Yong, J. C., Lee, S. T. H., Ng, W. Q., & Tong, E. M. W. (2020). Putting adversity in perspective: Purpose in life moderates the link between childhood emotional abuse and neglect and adulthood depressive symptoms. Journal of Mental Health, 29(4), 473-482.
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Heller, A. S., van Reekum, C. M., Schaefer, S. M., Lapate, R. C., Radler, B. T., Ryff, C. D., & Davidson, R. J. (2013). Sustained ventral striatal activity predicts eudaimonic well-being and cortisol output. Psychological Science. Advance online publication.
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Hill, P. L., & Turiano, N. A. (2014). Purpose in life as a predictor of mortality across adulthood. Psychological Science, 25(7), 1482-1486.
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Hill, P. L., Sin, N. L., Almeida, D. M., & Burrow, A. L. (2022). Sense of purpose predicts daily positive events and attenuates their influence on positive affect. Emotion, 22(3), 597-602.
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Hill, P. L., Sin, N. L., Turiano, N. A., Burrow, A. L., & Almeida, D. M. (2018). Sense of purpose moderates the associations between daily stressors and daily well-being. Annals of Behavioral Medicine, 52(8), 724-729.
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Hill, P. L., Turiano, N. A., & Burrow, A. L. (2018). Early life adversity as a predictor of sense of purpose during adulthood. International Journal of Behavioral Development, 42(1), 143-147.
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Hill, P. L., Turiano, N. A., Mroczek, D. K., & Burrow, A. L. (2016). The value of a purposeful life: Sense of purpose predicts greater income and net worth. Journal of Research in Personality, 65, 38-42.
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Homan, K. J., & Kong, J. (2020). Longitudinal health consequences of childhood adversity: The mediating role of purpose in life. Journal of Gerontological Social Work, 63(8), 864-877.
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Johnson, W., & Krueger, R. F. (2005). Predictors of physical health: Toward an integrated model of genetic and environmental antecedents. Journals of Gerontology. Series B, Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences, 60B(1), 42-52.
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Kim, E. S., Ryff, C., Hassett, A., Brummett, C., Yeh, C., & Strecher, V. (2020). Sense of purpose in life and likelihood of future illicit drug use or prescription medication misuse. Psychosomatic Medicine, 82(7), 715-721.
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Kim, J., & Hicks, J. A. (2015). Parental bereavement and the loss of purpose in life as a function of interdependent self-construal. Frontiers in Psychology. Advance online publication.
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Kirsch, J. A., & Ryff, C. D. (2018). The Great Recession, inequality, and health: An integrative approach. In C. D. Ryff & R. F. Krueger (Eds.), The Oxford handbook of integrative health science. New York: Oxford University Press.
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Kirsch, J., & Ryff, C. D. (2016). Hardships of the Great Recession and health: Understanding varities of vulnerability. Health Psychology Open, 3(1), Article 2055102916652390.
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Lee, C., Harari, L., & Park, S. (2020). Early-life adversities and recalcitrant smoking in midlife: An examination of gender and life-course pathways. Annals of Behavioral Medicine, 54(11), 867-879.
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Lewis, N. A., Turiano, N. A., Payne, B. R., & Hill, P. L. (2017). Purpose in life and cognitive functioning in adulthood. Aging, Neuropsychology, and Cognition, 24(6), 662-671.
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Li, P. F. J., & Chow, A. (2024). Has human progress stagnated in recent decades? Evaluating Seligman's (2021) model of agency and its correlates using the MIDUS three-wave longitudinal study. Journal of Positive Psychology. Advance online publication.
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Martela, F., Laitinen, E., & Hakulinen, C. (2024). Which predicts longevity better: Satisfaction with life or purpose in life? Psychology and Aging. Advance online publication.
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Morozink, J. A., Friedman, E. M., Coe, C. L., & Ryff, C. D. (2010). Socioeconomic and psychosocial predictors of interleukin-6 in the MIDUS national sample. Health Psychology, 29(6), 626-635.
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Nair, A. K., Adluru, N., Finley, A. J., Gresham, L. K., Skinner, S. E., Alexander, A. L., Davidson, R. J., Ryff, C. D., & Schaefer, S. M. (2024). Purpose in life as a resilience factor for brain health: Diffusion MRI findings from the Midlife in the U.S. Study. Frontiers in Psychiatry, 15, Article 1355998.
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Pfund, G. N., Olaru, G., Allemand, M., & Hill, P. L. (2024). Purposeful and purposeless aging: Structural issues for sense of purpose and their implications for predicting life outcomes. Developmental Psychology, 60(1), 75-93.
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Puterman, E., Weiss, J., Hives, B. A., Gemmill, A., Karasek, D., Mendes, W. B., & Rehkopf, D. H. (2020). Predicting mortality from 57 economic, behavioral, social, and psychological factors. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 117(28), 16273-16282.
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Ryff, C. D. (2018). Well-being with soul: Science in pursuit of human potential. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 13(2), 242-248.
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Ryff, C. D., & Kim, E. S. (2020). Extending research linking purpose in life to health: The challenges of inequality, the potential of the arts, and the imperative of virtue. In A. L. Burrow & P. Hill (Eds.), The ecology of purposeful living across the lifespan (pp. 29-58). Cham, Switzerland: Springer.
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Ryff, C. D., Heller, A. S., Schaefer, S. M., van Reekum, C., & Davidson, R. J. (2016). Purposeful engagement, healthy aging, and the brain. Current Behavioral Neuroscience Reports, 3(4), 318-327.
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Schaefer, S. M., Boylan, J. M., Van Reekum, C. M., Lapate, R. C., Norris, C. J., Ryff, C. D., & Davidson, R. J. (2013). Purpose in life predicts better emotional recovery from negative stimuli. PLoS ONE, 8(11), Article e80329.
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Schaefer, S. M., van Reekum, C. M., Lapate, R. C., Heller, A. S., Grupe, D. W., & Davidson, R. J. (2018). The temporal dynamics of emotional responding: Implications for well-being and health from the MIDUS neuroscience project. In C. D. Ryff & R. F. Krueger (Eds.), The Oxford handbook of integrative health science. New York: Oxford University Press.
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Soren, A., & Ryff, C. D. (2023). Meaningful work, well-being, and health: Enacting a eudaimonic vision. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 20(16), Article 6570.
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Sutin, A. R., Luchetti, M., Aschwanden, D., Lee, J. H., Sesker, A. A., Stephan, Y., & Terracciano, A. (2022). 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. Journal of Affective Disorders, 309, 211-220.
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Sutin, A. R., Luchetti, M., Stephan, Y., Sesker, A. A., & Terracciano, A. (2024). Purpose in life and stress: An individual-participant meta-analysis of 16 samples. Journal of Affective Disorders, 345, 378-385.
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Sutin, A. R., Luchetti, M., Stephan, Y., Strickhouser, J. E., & Terracciano, A. (2022). The association between purpose/meaning in life and verbal fluency and episodic memory: A meta-analysis of >140,000 participants from up to 32 countries. International Psychogeriatrics, 34(3), 263-273.
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Tazzeo, C., Zucchelli, A., Vetrano, D. L., Demurtas, J., Smith, L., Schoene, D., Sanchez-Rodriguez, D., Onder, G., Balci, C., Bonetti, S., Grande, G., Torbahn, G., Veronese, N., & Marengoni, A. (2023). Risk factors for multimorbidity in adulthood: A systematic review. Ageing Research Reviews, 91, Article 102039.
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Weston, S. J., Hill, P. L., & Cardador, M. T. (2021). Working toward a purpose: Examining the cross-sectional and longitudinal effects of work characteristics on sense of purpose. Journal of Personality, 89(2), 244-257.
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Weston, S. J., Hill, P. L., & Mroczek, D. K. (2023). Associations for sense of purpose with smoking and health outcomes among adults with diabetes. International Journal of Behavioral Medicine. Advance online publication.
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Woo, J., Lehrer, H. M., Whyne, E., & Steinhardt, M. (2020). The longitudinal association of psychological resources with chronic conditions and the mediating roles of health behaviours and allostatic load. Psychology & Health, 35(5), 629-643.
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Yemiscigil, A., & Vlaev, I. (2021). The bidirectional relationship between sense of purpose in life and physical activity: A longitudinal study. Journal of Behavioral Medicine, 44, 715-725.
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Zilioli, S., Slatcher, R. B., Ong, A. D., & Gruenewald, T. (2015). Purpose in life predicts allostatic load ten years later. Journal of Psychosomatic Research, 79(5), 451-457.
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