ArticleJournal of research in personality2024
Purpose in Daily Life: Considering Within-Person Sense of Purpose Variability.
Article in Journal of research in personality, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 12 papers.
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- Examining within-person variability of each individual: How should we deal with non-varying individuals?Behavior research methods · 2026Article
- Sense of purpose fluctuations in daily life: A study of young adults and cognitively diverse older adults.Developmental psychology · 2026Article
- Momentary associations between purpose in life and social connection from a micro-longitudinal study of everyday life.Acta psychologica · 2026Article
- The interaction between future food considerations, regulation of eating behaviors, sense of purpose, and social media consciousness among college students: a study on mediation effects and network analysis.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Article
- Sense of purpose and perception of involution (Frontiers in psychology · 2026Article
- Dynamic network models reveal personalized patterns of well-being in young adult daily lives.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Sense of purpose and emotion regulation strategy use: A mini-review with directions for future research.Journal of mood and anxiety disorders · 2025Review
- Person, temporal, and contextual predictors of momentary purpose in everyday life.Personality and individual differences · 2025Article
- Daily relationship satisfaction and markers of health: Findings from a smartphone-based assessment.Applied psychology. Health and well-being · 2025Article
- Personality, purpose, and wellbeing: a comparison of Iranian and U.S. telecommuters during the COVID-19 pandemic.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Article
- 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 stress: Momentary associations from a micro-longitudinal study.Stress and health : journal of the International Society for the Investigation of Stress · 2024Article
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Abstract
Sense of purpose refers to the extent to which one feels that they have personally meaningful goals and directions guiding them through life. Though this construct predicts a host of benefits, little is known regarding the extent to which sense of purpose fluctuates within an individual and the affective changes tied to those fluctuations. The current study uses daily diary data to addresses this gap by exploring (1) how much sense of purpose and different components of purpose fluctuate from one day to the next, (2) the extent to which these fluctuations correlate with positive and negative affect, and (3) whether dispositional sense of purpose and age correlate with greater variability. Participants (
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