Patience Amidst Adversity (with Baylor University, Wake Forest, and University of Riverside)
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This grant will study patience through asking 6 big questions.
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The Role of Character Strengths and Virtues in the Pursuit of Purpose
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This study examines the relationship among character strengths, virtues, and purpose.
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Searching for Purpose Antecedents
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This exploratory study focuses on the antecedents of purpose.
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Cultivating Purpose in K-12 Educational Settings
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This study seeks to map the landscape of K-12 school-based purpose interventions and to make empirically-based recommendations regarding how these efforts could be scaled more broadly.
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Examining Career and College Planning through the Lens of Purpose in the East and West
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We are conducting a three-year longitudinal study of career purpose.
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How Do Young Adults Think about Patience and Its Role in the Search for Purpose?: A Qualitative Study Featuring Religious and Non-Religious Individuals
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This study seeks to explore the role that patience, conceptualized as the ability to stay calm but actively engaged in the face of frustration or suffering, plays in the search for purpose.
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Character and Virtue Formation among Liberian Youth
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This study seeks to gain a fuller understanding of what positive youth development in the Liberian context entails.
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Understanding and Fostering Family Purpose
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The goal of this study is to advance our understanding of how family purposes develop and how one can promote them, especially among families with extraordinary responsibilities.
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Purpose among Adolescent and Young Adult Cancer Survivors
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With the generous support of HopeLab, work on this project has focused on devising interventions to help adolescent and young adult cancer survivors discover and pursue purposes in life.
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Gratitude and Purpose Project
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In conjunction with the Greater Good Science Center, this project seeks to investigate the relationship between purpose and gratitude.
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The Greek Project
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This study seeks to explore how economic and political turmoil influence young people’s sense of purpose in life.
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Positive Youth Development Among Liberian Street Children
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This project explores the challenges and opportunities associated with promoting positive youth development among Liberian early adolescents.
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Purpose Among Low-Income Youth Project
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This study aims to explore the presence of purpose among a sample of youth from low-resourced backgrounds.
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Fostering Purpose Project
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The project seeks to design, test, and implement a set of tools that can quickly and easily be administered to foster purpose among youth.
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