ArticleDevelopmental psychology2024
Purposeful and purposeless aging: Structural issues for sense of purpose and their implications for predicting life outcomes.
Article in Developmental psychology, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.
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- Sense of purpose fluctuations in daily life: A study of young adults and cognitively diverse older adults.Developmental psychology · 2026Article
- Purpose and Meaning in Life in Older Age: A Correlational Meta-Analysis.Research square · 2026Article
- Reconceptualizing Purpose in the Third Age: From Linear Accumulation to Present-Centred Sufficiency?Psychology research and behavior management · 2026Review
- Investigating the trivariate reciprocal longitudinal relationships between purpose, loneliness, and cognitive function.The journals of gerontology. Series B, Psychological sciences and social sciences · 2025Article
- Purpose in Daily Life: Considering Within-Person Sense of Purpose Variability.Journal of research in personality · 2024Article
- Purposeful and purposeless aging: Structural issues for sense of purpose and their implications for predicting life outcomes.Developmental psychology · 2024Article
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Abstract
Despite the value of sense of purpose during older adulthood, this construct often declines with age. With some older adults reconsidering the relevance of purpose later in life, the measurement of purpose may suffer from variance issues with age. The current study investigated whether sense of purpose functions similarly across ages and evaluated if the predictive power of purpose on mental, physical, cognitive, and financial outcomes changes when accounting for a less age-affected measurement structure. Utilizing data from two nationwide panel studies (Health and Retirement Study:
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