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Waiting with purpose: A reliable but small association between purpose in life and impulsivity.

Abstract

Purpose in life contributes to health and wellbeing. We examine the link between purpose and behavioral impulsivity that may account for these benefits. In a community sample of 503 adults, we found a small yet reliable positive association between purpose and valuing future rewards on a delayed discounting task, a behavioral index of impulsivity. This bootstrapped correlation remained after accounting for Big-5 personality traits, positive affect, and demographic characteristics, suggesting a unique and robust link between purpose and impulsivity (r = .1). We interpret this connection as evidence that purpose enables a broader life view, which serves to inhibit impulsive distractions.

Entities: Disease Gene Species

Keywords: delay discounting; future rewards; impulsivity; prospection; purpose in life

Year: 2016 PMID： 26640312 PMCID： PMC4668943 DOI： 10.1016/j.paid.2015.11.010

Source DB: PubMed Journal: Pers Individ Dif ISSN： 0191-8869

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7 in total

Waiting with purpose: A reliable but small association between purpose in life and impulsivity.

1. Area under the curve as a measure of discounting.

2. Impulsivity and cigarette smoking: delay discounting in current, never, and ex-smokers.

3. Episodic future thinking reduces reward delay discounting through an enhancement of prefrontal-mediotemporal interactions.

4. The Life Engagement Test: assessing purpose in life.

Review 5. A review of delay-discounting research with humans: relations to drug use and gambling.

6. Differential effects of amount on temporal and probability discounting of gains and losses.

7. Positive affect, meaning in life, and future time perspective: an application of socioemotional selectivity theory.

8. Purpose as a form of identity capital for positive youth adjustment.

9. The place of impulsiveness in a dimensional system of personality description.

Review 10. The WU-Minn Human Connectome Project: an overview.

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7. Transforming Life: A Broad View of the Developmental Origins of Health and Disease Concept from an Ecological Justice Perspective.