ArticleEmotion (Washington, D.C.)2022
Sense of purpose predicts daily positive events and attenuates their influence on positive affect.
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- Savouring Moderates Affect Reactivity to Daily Events in Old Age.Stress and health : journal of the International Society for the Investigation of Stress · 2025Article
- Purpose in Life and Stress Reactivity.Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.) · 2025Article
- Momentary Associations Between Physical Activity, Affect, and Purpose in Life.Annals of behavioral medicine : a publication of the Society of Behavioral Medicine · 2024Article
- Associations between emotional reactivity to stress and adolescent substance use: Differences by sex and valence.Stress and health : journal of the International Society for the Investigation of Stress · 2024Article
- Patient empowerment: a critical evaluation and prescription for a foundational definition.Frontiers in psychology · 2024Article
- Purposeful and purposeless aging: Structural issues for sense of purpose and their implications for predicting life outcomes.Developmental psychology · 2024Article
- Personality differences in the occurrence and affective correlates of daily positive events.Journal of personality · 2022Article
- Positive well-being and dampened emotional reactivity to daily family conflict and family cohesion.Child developmentArticle
- Within-Person Temporal Associations Among Self-Reported Physical Activity, Sleep, and Well-Being in College Students.Psychosomatic medicineArticle
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Abstract
Sense of purpose has proven a consistent predictor of positive outcomes during adulthood. However, it remains unclear how purposeful adults respond to positive events in their daily lives. The current study examined whether sense of purpose predicted the frequency of daily positive events, as well as participants' affect on days with a positive event, across 8 days in an adult sample (
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