ArticleInnovation in aging2024
Purpose in Life and Cognitive Function: Evidence for Momentary Associations in Daily Life.
Article in Innovation in aging, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.
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9 citing papers in PubMed.
- Loneliness and physical activity: Findings from an ecological momentary assessment and accelerometry study.Journal of health psychology · 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
- Momentary and lagged associations between purpose in life and pain intensity in daily life.Journal of health psychology · 2026Article
- Daily Activities and Purpose in Life.International journal of wellbeing · 2026Article
- Personality traits and loneliness: An ecological momentary assessment study with self and partner ratings.Journal of research in personality · 2025Article
- 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
- 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
Background and Objectives: Purpose in life is associated with healthier cognitive outcomes in older adulthood. This research examines within-person dynamics between momentary purpose and cognitive function to provide proof of concept that increases in purpose are associated with better cognitive performance. Research Design and Methods: Participants ( Results: In moments when participants felt more purpose driven than their average, they had faster processing speed ( Discussion and Implications: Feeling more momentary purpose may support faster processing speed in daily life. Such evidence provides stage 0 support for a purpose-based intervention for healthier cognition, which may be particularly useful in middle adulthood and the transition to older adulthood before the onset of cognitive impairment.
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