ArticleJournal of health psychology2022
Sense of purpose in life and motivation, barriers, and engagement in physical activity and sedentary behavior: Test of a mediational model.
Article in Journal of health psychology, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 23 papers, 4 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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Who cites it
23 citing papers in PubMed, 4 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 31 citations in OpenAlex.
- Purpose in life and lung function: an individual-participant meta-analysis of six cohort studies.Respiratory research · 2025Pooled it
- Purpose in life and grip strength: An individual-participant meta-analysis of 115,972 participants from 24 countries across four continents.GeroScience · 2025Pooled it
- Purpose in life and slow walking speed: cross-sectional and longitudinal associations.GeroScience · 2024Pooled it
- Purpose in life and stress: An individual-participant meta-analysis of 16 samples.Journal of affective disorders · 2024Pooled it
- Purpose in life and concurrent and incident fatigue.Psychology, health & medicine · 2026Article
- Religion's Influence on Successful Aging: Mediating Mechanisms of Life Satisfaction and Depressive Symptoms Among Community-Dwelling Older Adults in Brazil.Journal of religion and health · 2026Article
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- Purpose and Meaning in Life in Older Age: A Correlational Meta-Analysis.Research square · 2026Article
- The longitudinal relation between purpose in life and accelerometer-measured physical activity.Mental health and physical activity · 2026Article
- The longitudinal impact of adverse childhood experiences on college students' intrinsic motivation for physical exercise: the chain mediating effect of meaning in life and psychological resilience.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Article
- Purpose in life in late adolescence and incident depression over 10 years.Journal of psychiatric research · 2026Article
- Physical activity barriers, nutrition, motivation, and body composition in university students.BMC public health · 2025Article
- Meaning in life and all-cause and cause-specific mortality in the UK Biobank.Journal of psychosomatic research · 2025Article
- Purpose in life and accelerometer-measured physical activity among older adults.Psychology & health · 2025Article
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- Momentary Associations Between Physical Activity, Affect, and Purpose in Life.Annals of behavioral medicine : a publication of the Society of Behavioral Medicine · 2024Article
- Purpose in life and cognitive performance and informant ratings of cognitive decline, affect, and activities.Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society : JINS · 2024Article
- Purpose in life and markers of immunity and inflammation: Testing pathways of episodic memory.Journal of psychosomatic research · 2023Article
- Sense of Purpose in Life and Beliefs and Knowledge of Alzheimer's Disease.Archives of clinical neuropsychology : the official journal of the National Academy of Neuropsychologists · 2023Article
- Sense of Purpose in Life and Markers of Hearing Function: Replicated Associations across Two Longitudinal Cohorts.Gerontology · 2022Article
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4 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.
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Abstract
Purpose in life is associated with greater engagement in physical activity. The present research (
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