There’s a lot of scientific literature on purpose and what it affects. We’ve curated some we think is meaningful here: Purpose and Physical Health Purpose in Life and Its Relationship to All-Cause Mortality and Cardiovascular Events: A Meta-Analysis (Cohen et al., 2016)Purpose in life predicts allostatic load ten years later (Zilioli et al., 2015)Sense of Purpose in Life and Subsequent Physical, Behavioral, and Psychosocial Health: An Outcome-Wide Approach (Kim, E.S. et al., 2022)Maintaining sense of purpose in midlife predicts better physical health (Willroth et al., 2021) Purpose and Mental Health The Benefits of Goal Adjustment Capacities for Well-Being Among Women With Breast Cancer: Potential Mechanisms of Action (Mens & Scheier, 2015).Commitment to a purpose in life: An antidote to the suffering by individuals with social anxiety disorder (Kashdan & McKnight, 2013)Purpose as a form of identity capital for positive youth adjustment (Burrow & Hill, 2011) Accordion Item 3 Description text goes here
