Purpose in life and stress: Momentary associations from a micro-longitudinal study.

Autor: Sutin AR; Florida State University College of Medicine, Tallahassee, Florida, USA., Luchetti M; Florida State University College of Medicine, Tallahassee, Florida, USA., Stephan Y; Euromov, University of Montpellier, Montpellier, Vermont, USA., Stokes JE; University of Massachusetts Boston, Boston, Massachusetts, USA., Terracciano A; Florida State University College of Medicine, Tallahassee, Florida, USA.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Stress and health : journal of the International Society for the Investigation of Stress [Stress Health] 2024 Aug 14, pp. e3464. Date of Electronic Publication: 2024 Aug 14.
DOI: 10.1002/smi.3464
Abstrakt: Purpose in life is an aspect of well-being associated with less subjective stress. The present research sought to expand this literature by testing the association between both dispositional and momentary purpose with stress in daily life using a micro-longitudinal study design. Participants (N = 303) reported their dispositional purpose at baseline and reported their momentary purpose and stress three times a day for 8 days. Between-person, dispositional purpose was associated with less momentary stress across the 8 days tested with linear regression (β = -0.29, 95% CI = -0.39, -18, p < 0.001); it was unrelated to variability in stress (β = 0.05, 95% CI = -0.05, 0.14, p = 0.310). In contrast, the within-person analysis tested with multilevel modelling indicated that in moments when participants felt more purpose-driven than their average, they felt more stressed (b = 0.09, 95% CI = 0.06, 0.12, SE = 0.01, p < 0.001). This association was slightly stronger among participants with relatively lower dispositional purpose (b interaction  = -0.04, SE = 0.02, 95% CI = -0.08, -0.01, p = 0.032). This study replicated the negative association between dispositional purpose and subjective stress when stress was measured at moments in daily life. It also found that feeling more purpose-driven than usual in the moment is stressful, a counterintuitive finding that, if replicated, suggests that striving for purpose can be stressful in the moment, even if feeling more purposeful in general is associated with lower stress.
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Databáze: MEDLINE