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- Higher purpose in life, positive affect, optimism, social support, and life satisfaction predicted lower mortality. A one standard deviation increase in most measures of psychological well-being was associated with a 2–4 year increase in life expectancy at age 50.
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9901287/
Accumulating evidence shows that a higher sense of purpose in life is associated with lower risk of chronic conditions and premature mortality. Health behaviors might partially explain these findings, however, the prospective association between sense of purpose and health behaviors is understudied. We tested whether a higher sense of purpose ...
In analyses stratified by SES, people with the highest level of purpose (versus lowest) consistently tended to have lower mortality risk across levels of SES. However, people with mid-range purpose levels had lower mortality risk only if they also had mid-to-high education, income, and wealth.
- Koichiro Shiba, Laura D. Kubzansky, David R. Williams, Tyler J. VanderWeele, Eric S. Kim
- 10.1016/j.amepre.2021.02.011
- 2021
- 2021/08
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- Description of Included Studies
- Risk of Bias Assessment
- Qualitative Synthesis
- Meta-Analyses
A total of 4175 articles were identified from the systematic database search, and six additional articles were found via searching the reference list of included articles (Fig. 1). After removing duplicates, 3140 records remained for review. After title and abstract screening, 3058 articles were excluded and the full-text of the remaining 82 articl...
Table 1 presents the characteristics of the 47 included studies. The earliest study was published in 1993 while the remaining included articles were published between 2002 and 2019, with 28% published in the past 5 years. All studies except the retrospective cohort study of Ul-Haq et al., were prospective cohort studies. The included studies were ...
The methodological quality of included studies based on NOS ranged between five and nine stars. Among the included studies, seven were of high methodological quality, with nine stars. Across the ten studies with less than seven stars, they were scored most poorly on the items assessing how representative the cohort was in relation to the overall po...
Of the total 47 included studies, 43 (91.5%) studies reported for at least one of the domains examined, that better QOL was associated with lower mortality risk (Table 1). Of 33 studies which assessed physical HRQoL (nine exclusively assessed physical HRQoL), 30 studies (91%) reported better HRQoL was associated with lower mortality risk. Among the...
Four studies including 53,642 participants [23, 24, 60, 70] measured QoL using the SF-36 and examined the association between the PCS and all-cause mortality and provided estimates from logistic regression analysis (OR or RR). With an average 1.8-year follow-up, one unit increase in the SF-36 PCS was associated with a 5% decrease in all-cause morta...
- Aung Zaw Zaw Phyo, Rosanne Freak-Poli, Rosanne Freak-Poli, Heather Craig, Danijela Gasevic, Danijela...
- 2020
Analyses were done in 2020. Results. In analyses stratified by SES, people with the highest level of purpose consistently tended to have lower mortality risk across the levels of SES than those with the lowest level of purpose.
Indeed, studies have found that purposeful older adults experience a diminished mortality risk in American samples (Krause, 2009), even when controlling for known predictors of longevity (Boyle, Barnes, Buchman, & Bennett, 2009).
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Apr 13, 2023 · Results of logistic regression analyses showed that purpose in life and self-rated health were both significantly positively associated with longevity, and that purpose in life significantly moderated the relationship between self-rated health and mortality.
