ArticlePersonality and individual differences2023
Purpose in life, stress mindset, and perceived stress: Test of a mediational model.
Article in Personality and individual differences, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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9 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Purpose in life and stress: An individual-participant meta-analysis of 16 samples.Journal of affective disorders · 2024Pooled it
- When Stress Becomes Human: The Joint Effect of Anthropomorphism and Generalized Trust on Stress Mindset.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
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- Psychological Adjustment and Tolerance for Psychological Pain: A Chain Mediation Model of Stress Mindset and Perceived Stress.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Sense of purpose and emotion regulation strategy use: A mini-review with directions for future research.Journal of mood and anxiety disorders · 2025Review
- The psychosocial anti-inflammatories: Sense of control, purpose in life, and social support in relation to inflammation, functional health and chronic conditions in adulthood.Journal of psychosomatic research · 2024Article
- Neuroscience Education as a Tool for Improving Stress Management and Resilience.Current opinion in behavioral sciences · 2024Article
- Crisis of Faith and Sleep Quality in the United States: A Literal Dark Night of the Soul?Journal of religion and health · 2024Article
- Comparison of dysfunctional attitudes, cognitive vulnerability to depression, before and during the COVID-19 pandemic in healthy participants.BMC psychology · 2024Article
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Abstract
Purpose in life is associated with less perceived stress and more positive worldviews. This study examined whether people with more purpose adopt a mindset that views stress as beneficial rather than harmful and whether this mindset is one mechanism between purpose and less stress. We used a short-term longitudinal study (
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