Dr. Gabrielle Pfund on strategies for cultivating purpose in your life, the stress-buffer effect of purpose, the relationship between purpose and physical health, the 3 paths to finding purpose and much more…

Dr. Gabrielle Pfund is a Postdoctoral Researcher in all things purpose in life. Gabrielle’s research covers many domains including personality science, developmental psychology and how purpose relates to all measures of health.

Chapters

0:00 Show Intro

1:28 Gabrielle’s journey into Purpose

3:11 What is Purpose?

4:35 Are there better purposes?

7:11 Paths to Finding a Purpose

23:41 Daily tools to Help Finding Purpose

29:16 Purpose and Mental Health

41:25 Purpose and Physical Health

45:15 Gabrielle’s Purpose in Life

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Further Resources

Dr. Gabrielle Pfund Google Scholar page

https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=F0rrtS8AAAAJ&hl=en

"The PATHS to Purpose: A New Framework Toward Understanding Purpose Development" (2023) by Hill, Pfund and Allemand

"Origins of Purpose in Life: Refining our Understanding of a Life Well Lived" (2009) by Kashdan & McKnight

"Sense of Purpose Moderates the Associations Between Daily Stressors and Daily Well-being" by Hill et. al. (2018)

"Derailed by Diversity? Purpose Buffers the Relationship Between Ethnic Composition on Trains and Passenger Negative Mood" (2013) by Burrow & Hill

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