ArticleCurrent behavioral neuroscience reports2016
Purposeful Engagement, Healthy Aging, and the Brain.
Article in Current behavioral neuroscience reports, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 36 papers.
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36 citing papers in PubMed.
- Improving Purpose in Life in School Settings.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2023Trial
- Effectiveness of an Energy Management Training Course on Employee Well-Being: A Randomized Controlled Trial.American journal of health promotion : AJHP · 2019Trial
- Momentary and lagged associations between purpose in life and pain intensity in daily life.Journal of health psychology · 2026Article
- The Impact of Volunteer Wildlife Caregiving on Meaning in Life in Mid-Aged and Older Australians.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Meaning in life and all-cause and cause-specific mortality in the UK Biobank.Journal of psychosomatic research · 2025Article
- Effects of an 18-month meditation training on dynamic functional connectivity states in older adults: Secondary analyses from the Age-Well randomized controlled trial.Imaging neuroscience (Cambridge, Mass.) · 2025Article
- Building blocks for a happy life: Longitudinal associations between early life income, mentorship and later well-being.American journal of community psychology · 2024Article
- An exploration of neighborhood characteristics, psychosocial resilience resources, and cognitive functioning among midlife and older black adults.Ethnicity & health · 2024Article
- Purpose in Life and Cognitive Function: Evidence for Momentary Associations in Daily Life.Innovation in aging · 2024Article
- Locus coeruleus neuromelanin accumulation and dissipation across the lifespan.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2023Article
- Well-Being and Aging-Related Decline in Financial and Health Literacy in Advanced Age.The journals of gerontology. Series B, Psychological sciences and social sciences · 2023Article
- Psychological Well-being Relates to Healthcare and Financial Decision Making in a Study of Predominantly White Older Adults.Journal of applied gerontology : the official journal of the Southern Gerontological Society · 2023Article
- Purpose in life promotes resilience to age-related brain burden in middle-aged adults.Alzheimer's research & therapy · 2023Article
- Reciprocal Associations between Depressive Symptoms, Life Satisfaction, and Eudaimonic Well-Being in Older Adults over a 16-Year Period.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2023Article
- Association between mental health symptoms and behavioral performance in younger vs. older online workers.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2023Article
- Life Engagement Improvement Following Initiation of Brexpiprazole Treatment in Patients with MDD: A Naturalistic, Retrospective Real-World Study.ClinicoEconomics and outcomes research : CEOR · 2023Article
- Meaning in Life among Older Adults: An Integrative Model.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
- Purpose in Life and Cognition Interact to Impact Healthcare and Financial Decision Making in Old Age.Journal of applied gerontology : the official journal of the Southern Gerontological Society · 2022Article
- Sense of Coherence Mediates the Relationship Between Cognitive Reserve and Cognition in Middle-Aged Adults.Frontiers in psychology · 2022Article
- Association between serum sphingolipids and eudaimonic well-being in white U.S. adults.Scientific reports · 2021Article
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purpose of reviewResearch on psychological well-being in later life has identified strengths and vulnerabilities that occur with aging. We review the conceptual and philosophical foundations of a eudaimonic model of well-being and its empirical translation into six key dimensions of positive functioning. We also consider its implications for health, broadly defined. RECENT
findingsNumerous findings from national longitudinal samples of U.S. adults are described. They show declining scores on purpose in life and personal growth with aging, but also underscore the notable variability among older persons in these patterns. Recently, health benefits have been identified among older adults who maintain high levels of a particular aspect of well-being, namely, purposeful life engagement. These benefits include extended longevity, reduced risk for various disease outcomes, reduced physiological dysregulation, and gene expression linked to better inflammatory profiles. The brain mechanisms that underlie such outcomes are also examined via a focus on affective style. Adults with higher levels of purpose in life show more rapid recovery from negative stimulus provocation, whereas those with higher well-being overall show sustained activation of reward circuitry in response to positive stimuli, and this pattern is associated with lower diurnal cortisol output. Volumetric findings (right insular gray matter volume) have also been linked with eudaimonic well-being. SUMMARY: Eudaimonic well-being predicts better health and longer lives, and thus constitutes an important direction for future research and practice. Intervention studies designed to promote well-being, including among those suffering from psychological disorders, are briefly described.
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