Purpose, hope, and life satisfaction in three age groups Kendall Cotton Bronk , Patrick L. Hill , Daniel K. Lapsley , Tasneem L. Talib & Holmes Finch To cite this article: Kendall Cotton Bronk , Patrick L. Hill , Daniel K. Lapsley , Tasneem L. Talib & Holmes Finch (2009) Purpose, hope, and life satisfaction in three age groups, The Journal of Positive Psychology, 4:6, 500-510, DOI: 10.1080/1743...

Editor's Note: Purpose in Life (PIL) is a research area that focuses on the interactions between mind and body and the powerful ways in which emotional, mental, social, and spiritual factors can directly affect health. It links the belief that your life has meaning and purpose to a robust and persistently improved physiological health outcome—particularly as a way to treat dementia, spinal cord...

Purpose in life has been linked with better health (mental and physical) and health behaviors, but its link with patterns of health care use are understudied. We hypothesized that people with higher purpose would be more proactive in taking care of their health, as indicated by a higher likelihood of using preventive health care services. We also hypothesized that people with higher purpose wou...

OBJECTIVE Living a purposeful life is associated with better mental and physical health, including longevity. Accumulating evidence shows that these associations might be explained by the association between life purpose and regulation of physiological systems involved in the stress response. The aim of this study was to investigate the prospective associations between life purpose and allostat...

Conventional wisdom arguably suggests that parenting is satisfying for parents: individuals in early to mid adulthood often claim to look forward to entering parenthood and having children, and even in contexts of highly developed societies where childbearing has become financially expensive and are associated often with considerable trade-offs in terms of professional careers and pursuing othe...

Purpose in life predicts both health and longevity suggesting that the ability to find meaning from life's experiences, especially when confronting life's challenges, may be a mechanism underlying resilience. Having purpose in life may motivate reframing stressful situations to deal with them more productively, thereby facilitating recovery from stress and trauma. In turn, enhanced ability to r...

Abstract A strong sense of purpose and satisfaction in life is associated with multiple health benefits. There also evidence to suggest that social capital predicts better indicators. While both direct health, the relationship between terms remains unclear. retrospective cohort study was conducted on Japanese management professionals ( N = 4820). We analyzed cohort’s demographics reported chang...