Activist purpose orientation: Definition and predictors

ME Wilson, PL Hill - Social and Personality Psychology …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Activism is responsible for many of the positive social changes we have seen across time,
and is central to pushing for continued social change. However, these positive outcomes do …

Why youth are more purposeful than we think

PL Hill, AL Burrow - Child Development Perspectives, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
A core attribute of the positive youth development movement has been to nullify negative
perceptions of youth's capacities. Toward this end, measurement and classification systems …

The PATHS to purpose: A new framework toward understanding purpose development

PL Hill, GN Pfund, M Allemand - Current Directions in …, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
Academic and lay interest has accrued over recent years with respect to how people
develop a purpose in life. However, few theoretical models exist for understanding this …

Daily adolescent purposefulness, daily subjective well-being, and individual differences in autistic traits

K Ratner, Q Li, G Zhu, M Estevez, AL Burrow - Journal of Happiness …, 2023 - Springer
Despite being a valued resource for adolescent health and development, the field maintains
an incomplete view of how youths' sense of purpose in life corresponds with their subjective …

The role of purpose in the stress process: A homeostatic account

AL Burrow, PL Hill, M Stanley, R Sumner - Journal of Research in …, 2024 - Elsevier
The accumulation of evidence that having a sense of purpose contributes to greater health
and well-being has vastly outpaced investigations into why this is so. Here, we offer a novel …

Trust in purpose, or trust and purpose?: Institutional trust influences the association between sense of purpose and COVID-19 vaccination

PL Hill, M Allemand, AL Burrow - Journal of Psychosomatic Research, 2023 - Elsevier
Objective Having a sense of purpose is associated with a wide variety of positive health
outcomes, largely because purposeful individuals appear to take better care of themselves …

Purpose and goal pursuit as a self‐sustaining system: Evidence of daily within‐person reciprocity among adolescents in self‐driven learning

K Ratner, JR Gladstone, G Zhu, Q Li… - Journal of …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Objective Despite long‐standing assumptions that a sense of purpose in life and goal
pursuit are mutually supportive, empirical evidence of their reciprocity remains deficient. In …

Applying an Allportian trait perspective to sense of purpose

GN Pfund - Journal of Happiness Studies, 2023 - Springer
Sense of purpose captures the extent to which one feels that they have personally
meaningful goals and directions guiding them through life. While this construct has …

Purpose in daily life: Considering within-person sense of purpose variability

GN Pfund, AL Burrow, PL Hill - Journal of Research in Personality, 2024 - Elsevier
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 …

The vexing problem of dark giftedness

RJ Sternberg - Gifted Education International, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
The field of giftedness—including educators, theorists, and researchers--needs to show
more cognizance of a phenomenon that is rearing its ugly head in more and more visible …